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What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? In the first cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, anthropologist David D. Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness—on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality—is almost universal, deeply ingrained in the consciousness of hunters and fishermen, workers and warriors, poets and peasants who have little else in common. "Gilmore's subtle and illuminating inversion of ordinary understandings—his insight that male sterness, toughness, acquisitiveness, and aggressiveness serve, in circumstances of threat and scarcity, the same social ends as female tenderness and gentleness—has been suggested elsewhere, but never stated so completely nor in so unmistakably masculine a voice. . . . A signal service."—Beryl Lieff Benderly, __New York Times Book Review__ "The news in this anthropological study is not that so many societies . . . have developed rigid codes of masculinity. . . . Rather, it is that there are societies—on Tahiti and in Malaysia, for two—in which men are encouraged to be passive. . . . All of which, the author observes, causes consternation among Fre

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Author

David D., 1943- Gilmore

Publisher

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300050769

Category

history

Subjects

Psychology, Social Science, Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14