Boys and their toys? : masculinity, technology, and class in America / edited by Roger Horowitz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horowitz, Roger.

Series:

Hagley perspectives on business and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity--United States.

Masculinity.

Men.

Men--Employment.

Masculinity in popular culture.

Social conditions.

United States.

Men--United States--Social conditions.

Masculinity in popular culture--United States.

Men--Employment--United States.

Sexual division of labor--United States.

Sexual division of labor.

Sex role in the work environment--United States.

Sex role in the work environment.

Men--Effect of technological innovations on--United States.

Physical Description:

vi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2001.

Summary:

The second volume in Routledge's new series with the Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society, Boys and Their Toys places class and work at the core of gender formation. Covering topics from the turn-of-the-century of the present, Boys and Their Toys reveals how were and are made.

Negotiating the divide between "respectable manhood" and "rough manhood", this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.

This groundbreaking collection brings new insight into the complexities of masculinity and its relationship to class and society. It is a fresh and original exploration of gender, business, and culture that is sure to appeal to readers of Gail Bederman and Michael Kimmel.

Contents:

Part 1 Manhood in the Workplace

1 Work, Play, and Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor, 1930-1960 / Stephen Meyer 13

2 "To Make Men out of Crude Material" Work Culture, Manhood, and Unionism in the Railroad Running Trades, c. 1870-1900 / Paul Michel Taillon 33

3 "Now That We Have Girls in the Office" Clerical Work, Masculinity, and the Refashioning of Gender for a Bureaucratic Age / Janet F. Davidson 55

4 Rereading Man's Conquest of Nature: Skill, Myths, and the Historical Construction of Masculinity in Western Extractive Industries / Nancy Quam-Wickham 91

Part 2 Learning to Be Men

5 "Building Better Men" The CCC Boy and the Changing Social Ideal of Manliness / Jeffrey Ryan Suzik 111

6 Boys and Their Toys: The Fisher Body Craftman's Guild, 1930-1968, and the Making of a Male Technical Domain / Ruth Oldenziel 139

7 Masculine Guidance: Boys, Men, and Newspapers, 1930-1939 / Todd Alexander Postol 169

Part 3 Manhood at Play

8 Everyday Peter Pans: Work, Manhood, and Consumption in Urban America, 1900-1930 / Woody Register 199

9 Masculinity, the Auto Racing Fraternity, and the Technological Sublime: The Pit Stop As a Celebration of Social Roles / Ben A. Shackleford 229

10 Rights of Men, Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing, Michigan, 1945-1975 / Lisa Fine 251.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415929326

0415929334

OCLC:

46319620