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Making manhood : growing up male in colonial New England / Anne S. Lombard.
LIBRA HQ1090.5.N36 L66 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lombard, Anne S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men--New England--Social conditions.
- Men.
- Sex role--New England--History.
- Sex role.
- Masculinity--New England--History.
- Masculinity.
- History.
- Social conditions.
- New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- New England.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 244 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Countering our image of early Anglo-American families as dominated by harsh, austere patriarchs, Anne Lombard challenges long-held assumptions about the history of family life by casting a fresh look at the experience of growing up male in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. Drawing upon sources ranging from men's personal writings to court records to medical literature, Lombard finds that New England's Puritan settlers and their descendants shared a distinctive ideal of manhood that decisively shaped the lives of boys and men.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-237) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674010582
- OCLC:
- 51342477
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