The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

by Angus McLaren

Overview

In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226500690
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/15/2008
Series:	The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society , #1997
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	316
Lexile:	1610L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Angus McLaren

is a leading figure in the history of sexuality, professor emeritus of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of several books, including

The Trials of Masculinity: Policing of Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

;

A Prescription for Murder

; and

Impotence: A Cultural History

.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1: Masculinities
1: Deviants
Pt. 2: Legal Discourses: Men, Melodrama, and Criminality
2: Fools
3: Cads
4: Gentlemen
5: Murderers
Pt. 3: Medical Discourses: Weak Men and Perverts
6: Weaklings
7: Sadists
8: Exhibitionists
9: Transvestites
Conclusions
Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

McLaren's study is generous in its sympatheties and far-reaching in its breadth of primary sources; it is difficult to imagine a better guide to the most notorious scandals of our great-grandparents' day.
— Lambda Book Report

Graham Rosenstock