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Book Rehearsals of Manhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : John J. Winkler
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-02-21
  • ISBN : 0691213720
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Rehearsals of Manhood written by John J. Winkler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generation When John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a highly original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama. Rehearsals of Manhood makes this groundbreaking work available for the first time, presenting an entirely novel picture of Greek tragedy and a vivid portrait of the cultural poetics of Athenian manhood. Ancient Athens was a military conclave as well as an urban capital, and male citizens were expected to embody the ideal of the Athenian citizen-soldier. Winkler understands Attic drama as a secular manhood ritual, a collaborative aesthetic and civic enterprise focused on the initiation of boys into manhood and the training, testing, and representation of young male warriors. Past efforts to discover the origins and development of Greek tragedy have largely treated drama as a literary genre, isolating it from other Athenian social practices. Winkler returns Greek tragedy to its social context, showing how it was one among many forms of display and performance cultivated by elite males in ancient Greece. The final work of a celebrated classical scholar, Rehearsals of Manhood highlights the civic function of the dramatic festivals at classical Athens as occasions for the examination and representation of boys on the verge of manhood, and offers a fresh explanation of how dramatic performance fit into the social life and gender politics of the Athenian state.

Book Proving Manhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Timothy Beneke
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780520212664
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Proving Manhood written by Timothy Beneke and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for understanding the modern American man and his struggle with the women in his life.

Book National Manhood

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  • Author : Dana D. Nelson
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1998-10-14
  • ISBN : 0822382148
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book National Manhood written by Dana D. Nelson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and political articulation of a civic identity centered around the white male and points to a cultural moment in which the theoretical consolidation of white manhood worked to ground, and perhaps even found, the nation. Using political, scientific, medical, personal, and literary texts ranging from the Federalist papers to the ethnographic work associated with the Lewis and Clark expedition to the medical lectures of early gynecologists, Nelson explores the referential power of white manhood, how and under what conditions it came to stand for the nation, and how it came to be a fraternal articulation of a representative and civic identity in the United States. In examining early exemplary models of national manhood and by tracing its cultural generalization, National Manhood reveals not only how an impossible ideal has helped to form racist and sexist practices, but also how this ideal has simultaneously privileged and oppressed white men, who, in measuring themselves against it, are able to disavow their part in those oppressions. Historically broad and theoretically informed, National Manhood reaches across disciplines to engage those studying early national culture, race and gender issues, and American history, literature, and culture.

Book Comedy  Youth  Manhood in Early Modern England

Download or read book Comedy Youth Manhood in Early Modern England written by Ira Clark and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book reads Tudor-Stuart comedies in order to illuminate the problems and promises of achieving manhood because comedies permit public scrutiny of what might seem inhibitingly painful or irresoluble and of nuances that might go unregistered by the data and contemporary documents employed in social and gender histories.".

Book My Father s Legacy and Heritage  His Philosophy  and Manhood to the World

Download or read book My Father s Legacy and Heritage His Philosophy and Manhood to the World written by Edward Khiwa PhD and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew out of my experiences; in a collection of family group gatherings; interview with family siblings- pioneers, elderly communities, dialogue with those people with experience in sorrows, anger, grief, stress, and rod scholarly academic experiences from Africa, Europe, and United States, under Global Universities and Colleges. This document is composed of several chapters. Chapter I brings to us, the true measure of man and manhood. Chapter II, reveals the father of Dr. Khiwa, Mr. Luyirika and his philosophy in raising children and the immigration of his family and his final words of wisdom to the children and the World. Chapter 3, focuses at the moment of silence. In this course, here father revealed the sources of his manhood and legacy. Chapter IV brings to the reader the understanding of Luyirikas’ grands and his heritage. Chapter V, breaks down the history of the great parents of Luyirika’s line of origin.

Book Staging Strife

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  • Author : Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2015-04-01
  • ISBN : 0773584188
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book Staging Strife written by Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerned with traditional power imbalances between researchers and participants, contemporary social science has begun using collaborative research as an empowering methodology that involves participants in key decisions. Collaborative research is a potentially revolutionary method for studying people and their cultures, but does it work in practice? Staging Strife looks at the limits of this methodology by examining a politically charged theatre performance undertaken with a group of Roma women in Poland.

Book Challenging Macho Values

Download or read book Challenging Macho Values written by Jonathan Salisbury and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

Book Nothing to Do with Dionysos

Download or read book Nothing to Do with Dionysos written by John J. Winkler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These critically diverse and innovative essays are aimed at restoring the social context of ancient Greek drama. Theatrical productions, which included music and dancing, were civic events in honor of the god Dionysos and were attended by a politically stratified community, whose delegates handled all details from the seating arrangements to the qualifications of choral competitors. The growing complexity of these performances may have provoked the Athenian saying "nothing to do with Dionysos" implying that theater had lost its exclusive focus on its patron. This collection considers how individual plays and groups of dramas pertained to the concerns of the body politic and how these issues were presented in the convention of the stage and as centerpieces of civic ceremonies. The contributors, in addition to the editors, include Simon Goldhill, Jeffrey Henderson, David Konstan, Franois Lissarrague, Oddone Longo, Nicole Loraux, Josiah Ober, Ruth Padel, James Redfield, Niall W. Slater, Barry Strauss, and Jesper Svenbro.

Book Stanford Humanities Review

Download or read book Stanford Humanities Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The End of Manhood

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  • Author : John Stoltenberg
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2005-06-20
  • ISBN : 1135366896
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book The End of Manhood written by John Stoltenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to Refusing to be a Man, the author discusses new perspectives on intimacy, gender and violence as well as re-examining ideas of manhood and gender identity in general.

Book Masculinity  Autocracy and the Russian University  1804 1863

Download or read book Masculinity Autocracy and the Russian University 1804 1863 written by R. Friedman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of masculinity in Imperial Russia. By looking at official and unofficial life at universities across the Russian empire, this project offers a picture of the complex processes through which gender ideologies were forged and negotiated in the Nineteenth Century. Masculinity, Autocracy and the Russian University, 1804-1863 demonstrates how gender was critical to political life in a European monarchy.

Book Personal Sociology

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  • Author : Jeffrey E. Nash
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2022-02-23
  • ISBN : 1793651590
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Personal Sociology written by Jeffrey E. Nash and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-23 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Personal Sociology: Finding Meanings in Everyday Life, Jeffrey E. Nash transforms everyday experiences into sociological insights and understandings. This book has three parts. Part One illustrates the intersection of meanings in selected settings from the author’s own life such as barbershop quartet singing, wrestling, and how a medical procedure changed his identity. Part Two deals with humor and its intersection with social identities. An analysis of two television sitcoms separated by thirty years reveals how racial identity reflects larger changes in society. Using an indirect approach to teaching sociology to a group of elderly learners, the intersections of gender, race, class, and age are explored and explained through sociological concepts and theories. Part Three explores embedded meanings in local social contexts involving social beliefs and activism. The book concludes by engaging in public sociology through editorial opinion writing.

Book Philosophy in Manhood Principles

Download or read book Philosophy in Manhood Principles written by and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book David Mamet and American Macho

Download or read book David Mamet and American Macho written by Arthur Holmberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be an American man? Holmberg demonstrates how David Mamet's plays explore complex issues of masculinity.

Book The Rites of Men

    Book Details:
  • Author : Varda Burstyn
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1999-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802077257
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book The Rites of Men written by Varda Burstyn and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It gathers more spectators on a global basis than any other activity today. More than just a game, sport has profound political and social consequences, promoting a super-aggressive ideal of manhood and political culture.

Book Classical Views

Download or read book Classical Views written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rural Manhood

Download or read book Rural Manhood written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: