Masculinity in the modern west : gender, civilization and the body / Christopher E. Forth.

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

xi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Part one : making and unmaking the gentleman -- Four faces of civilization, c.1500-1750 -- Balancing acts : the paradox of the gentleman -- Part two : male bodies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The armor of health and the diseases of civilization -- A diet of pleasures? : the incorporation of manhood -- Building bodies : violence, pain and the nation -- Part three : the twentieth century and beyond -- Modern primitives : manhood and metamorphosis around 1900 -- Men of steel : technologies of the male body -- The last men? : consuming manhood since 1945 -- Conclusion : the return of the repressed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 238-277) and index.