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Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War (Picturing History) Each chapter offers a detailed examination of a different facet of the war and masculinity, comparing attitudes towards those who were dismembered and disabled by the war with attitudes towards those
| Title | : | Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War (Picturing History) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.88 (443 Votes) |
| Id Book | : | 0948462825 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Type File | : | PDF, DOC, RTF, ePub |
It has been contended that femininity was "disrupted, constructed and reconstructed" during World War I, but what happened to masculinity? Using the evidence of letters, diaries and oral histories of members of the military and of civilians, this book explores the impact of the Great War on the male body. Each chapter offers a detailed examination of a different facet of the war and masculinity, comparing attitudes towards those who were dismembered and disabled by the war with attitudes towards those suffering from diseases such as shell-shock. Joanne Bourke concludes that, although the absence of women encouraged male intimacy, differences of class, religion and ethnicity, together with the constant threat of death, acted as barriers to closeness. Bourke argues that military experiences led to a greater sharing of gender identities between men of different classes and ages, and that, ultimately, attempts to reconstruct a new type of masculinity failed as the threat of another war - a
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The author is liberal in the use of examples and "stories". It was entertaining. viii).
It is the author's great merit to have chosen Darwinian evolution as the overarching explanatory metaphor explaining the evolution of technology. Product as described. Such troughs were used to refuel steam cars, so their refueling stations were eliminated.
The author discounts somewhat path-dependent outcomes and "autonomous technologies". Regular readers of The New York Times will have noticed that while the paper's style has a certain consistently, some of its writers stand out anyway. In many cases, however, social and cultural factors are deeply involved (Chapt. Her juxtaposition of the treatment of men with physical injuries as opposed to mental injuries is especially telling, the former lauded, the latter tre
The author is liberal in the use of examples and "stories". It was entertaining. viii).
It is the author's great merit to have chosen Darwinian evolution as the overarching explanatory metaphor explaining the evolution of technology. Product as described. Such troughs were used to refuel steam cars, so their refueling stations were eliminated.
The author discounts somewhat path-dependent outcomes and "autonomous technologies". Regular readers of The New York Times will have noticed that while the paper's style has a certain consistently, some of its writers stand out anyway. In many cases, however, social and cultural factors are deeply involved (Chapt. Her juxtaposition of the treatment of men with physical injuries as opposed to mental injuries is especially telling, the former lauded, the latter tre
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