Manhood on the Line : Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland
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Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one's dignity while doing hard work in hard world.
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- ISBN-13: 9780252040054
- ISBN-10: 0252040058
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publish Date: April 2016
- Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.25 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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