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Making men: The cultural politics of masculinity in liberal political thought.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making men: The cultural politics of masculinity in liberal political thought./
Author:	Canada, Kate Marie.
Description:	348 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2367.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-06A.
Subject:	Political Science, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3180343
ISBN:	0542204002

Making men: The cultural politics of masculinity in liberal political thought.
Canada, Kate Marie.

Making men: The cultural politics of masculinity in liberal political thought. - 348 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-06, Section: A, page: 2367.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2005.

What is the relationship between liberal political theory and gender? As many scholars have demonstrated, the values and ideology of liberalism exert tremendous power, shaping and constructing many key aspects of identity for both men and women. Feminist scholarship has demonstrated the many ways femininity, the values and expectations of what it means to be a 'good' woman, have deep and enduring roots in the political and social institutions and values that constitute western liberalism. And yet, we do not have the same depth of understanding and analysis applied to men's identities. The prevailing assumption is that while masculinity is a set of expectations and values applied to men about what makes the 'best' man, we do not, however, possess a sufficient historical understanding of how masculinities have been created and re-created. This dissertation provides a history of the ways key concepts within liberal political thought have shaped and channeled ideals and expectations about masculinity. Looking back to some of the formative moments in the seventeenth-century, through poet and political activist John Milton and political commentator John Locke, this dissertation explores the ways these political figures were interested in gender, particularly men's identities. Standing at the closing stages of the old feudal patriarchal order and at the precipice of a new world characterized by freedom, rights, obligations and forms of justice, these thinkers turned their attentions to individuals, the men, who would function within these new institutional and political contexts. Both thinkers had explicit and often veiled opinions about which men were best suited for the coming political and social order. Finally, this dissertation tracks these thinkers' ideas up into the late nineteenth-century. During this time, as the nascent industrial United States was transforming into international economic powerhouse, both liberalism and masculinity were in flux; the promises of liberalism were shifting, as were the expectations of men. Drawing upon a number of samples from popular culture, this project focuses on the cultural and political dynamics involved in these changes and how liberal values and ideology tried to accommodate masculinity and how masculinity defined itself through the language and values of liberalism.

ISBN: 0542204002Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017391
Political Science, General.

Making men: The cultural politics of masculinity in liberal political thought.
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