Meanings for Manhood
Carnes, Mark C. / Griffen, Clyde![Meanings for Manhood](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/145/1450257/CHSBZCOP031450257.jpg)
The stereotype of the Victorian man as a flinty, sexually repressed patriarch belies the remarkably wide variety of male behaviors and conceptions of manhood during the mid- to late- nineteenth century. A complex pattern of alternative and even competing behaviors and attitudes emerges in this important collection of essays that points toward a "gendered history" of men.