The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930 / Edition 2

by Angus McLaren

Overview

In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male.

"Inherently interesting. . . . Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their place here."—Library Journal

"An appealing wealth of evidence of what trials can reveal about the boundaries of men's roles around the turn of the century."—Kirkus Reviews

"It is difficult to imagine a better guide to the most notorious scandals of our great-grandparents' day."—Graham Rosenstock, Lambda Book Report

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226500683
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	06/01/1999
Series:	The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society , #1997
Edition description:	1
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1610L (what's this?)

About the Author

Angus McLaren

is a leading figure in the history of sexuality, professor emeritus of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, and the author of several books, including

The Trials of Masculinity: Policing of Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

;

A Prescription for Murder

; and

Impotence: A Cultural History

.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Pt. 1: Masculinities
1: Deviants
Pt. 2: Legal Discourses: Men, Melodrama, and Criminality
2: Fools
3: Cads
4: Gentlemen
5: Murderers
Pt. 3: Medical Discourses: Weak Men and Perverts
6: Weaklings
7: Sadists
8: Exhibitionists
9: Transvestites
Conclusions
Notes
Index

Editorial Reviews

McLaren's study is generous in its sympatheties and far-reaching in its breadth of primary sources; it is difficult to imagine a better guide to the most notorious scandals of our great-grandparents' day.
— Lambda Book Report

Graham Rosenstock