Making Manhood : Growing Up Male in Colonial New England /
Lombard, Anne S.
Making Manhood : Growing Up Male in Colonial New England / Anne S. Lombard. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (244 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Ideal of Rational Manhood -- 1 Fathers and Sons from Infancy through Boyhood -- 2 Youth and the Passions: Friendship and Love before 1700 -- 3 Youth and the Challenge of the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Manhood and Marriage -- 5 Manliness and the Use of Force -- 6 Manhood and Politics -- Epilogue: Intimate Relationships and Autonomous Manhood in the Nineteenth Century -- Notes -- Index
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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. At its core was a suspicion of emotional attachments between men and women. Boys were taken under their father's wing from a young age and taught the virtues of reason, responsibility, and maturity. Intimate bonds with mothers were discouraged, as were individual expression, pride, and play. The mature man who moderated his passions and contributed to his family and community was admired, in sharp contrast to the young, adventurous, and aggressive hero who would emerge after the American Revolution and embody our modern image of masculinity. Lombard writes with empathy and sensitivity of colonial life and the ways in which it interacted not only with male experience but also with the larger political history of eighteenth-century America.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674418141 9780674418158
10.4159/harvard.9780674418158 doi
Jeugd.
Jongens.
Masculinity.
Männlichkeit.
Männlichkeit.
Sekseverschillen.
Sex role.
Soziale Situation.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
Volwassenwording.
man Wort.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT).
New England -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
HQ1090.5.N36
305.31/0974
Making Manhood : Growing Up Male in Colonial New England / Anne S. Lombard. - Reprint 2014 - 1 online resource (244 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: The Ideal of Rational Manhood -- 1 Fathers and Sons from Infancy through Boyhood -- 2 Youth and the Passions: Friendship and Love before 1700 -- 3 Youth and the Challenge of the Eighteenth Century -- 4 Manhood and Marriage -- 5 Manliness and the Use of Force -- 6 Manhood and Politics -- Epilogue: Intimate Relationships and Autonomous Manhood in the Nineteenth Century -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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. At its core was a suspicion of emotional attachments between men and women. Boys were taken under their father's wing from a young age and taught the virtues of reason, responsibility, and maturity. Intimate bonds with mothers were discouraged, as were individual expression, pride, and play. The mature man who moderated his passions and contributed to his family and community was admired, in sharp contrast to the young, adventurous, and aggressive hero who would emerge after the American Revolution and embody our modern image of masculinity. Lombard writes with empathy and sensitivity of colonial life and the ways in which it interacted not only with male experience but also with the larger political history of eighteenth-century America.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674418141 9780674418158
10.4159/harvard.9780674418158 doi
Jeugd.
Jongens.
Masculinity.
Männlichkeit.
Männlichkeit.
Sekseverschillen.
Sex role.
Soziale Situation.
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie.
Volwassenwording.
man Wort.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT).
New England -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
HQ1090.5.N36
305.31/0974