Men to Boys
The Making of Modern Immaturity
When did maturity become the ultimate taboo? Gary Cross, renowned cultural historian, identifies the boy-man and his habits, examining the attitudes and practices of three generations to make sense of this gradual but profound shift in American masculinity. Cross matches the rise of the American boy-man to trends in twentieth-century advertising, popular culture, and consumerism, and he locates the roots of our present crisis in the vague call for a new model of leadership that, ultimately, failed to offer a better concept of maturity. Cross does not blame the young or glorify the past. He argues that contemporary American culture undermines…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-14431-5
- EAN: 9780231144315
- Produktnummer: 5638614
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H15.5 cm x B22.8 cm x D1.8 cm 450 g
- Gewicht: 450
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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Gary Cross is professor of history at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of a number of books on the history of American popular culture, including The Playful Crowd: Pleasure Places in the Twentieth Century; The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children's Culture; An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America; and Kids Stuff: Toys and the Changing Worlds of American Childhood.
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