- Philosophy, Nature and nurture, Political aspects of Masculinity, Sex role
This is the first comprehensive study of manliness, a quality both bad and good, mostly male, often intolerant, irrational, and ambitious. Our "gender-neutral society" does not like it but cannot get rid of it.
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Character
Spare, character-led, cool and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Harvey Claflin Mansfield
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 297
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780300106640
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