Making Men

  • Making Men: Sophists and Self-Presentation in Ancient Rome
    By Maud W. Gleason

    “I said to them,” he resumes, “In my opinion, at any rate, that man has not suffered the loss for which you grieve.'” The crowd's reaction, here as elsewhere, can only be imagined. It is not described. But they are not left to wonder ...

  • Making Men: The Male Coming-of-Age Theme in the Hebrew Bible
    By Stephen Wilson

    The Male Coming-of-Age Theme in the Hebrew Bible Stephen Wilson ... by becoming the subject of forced penetration.57 Thus, in at least some cases, to be a man necessitates not being feminized or perceived as having feminine qualities.

  • Making Men: Gender, Literary Authority, and Women's Writing in Caribbean Narrative
    By Belinda Edmondson

    Explores the gendered subjectivity of West Indian writers and their dependence on models from Victorian England for their narratives of self and nation. “Enjoyable, refreshing, and provocative. . . this work offers important and long ...

  • Making Men: Rugby and Masculine Identity
    By John Nauright, Timothy J.L. Chandler

    Pleasure, Profit, Proselytism: British Culture and Sport at Home and Abroad 1700–1914 (London, 1988), p. 168. 34. Ibid., pp. 44–5. 35. R. J. H. King, Along. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. Bill Freund, A City and a People (Durban, 1994).

  • Making Men: Giving Boys a Clear Definition of Masculinity
    By Ben Jacobs

    Making Men, by Ben Jacobs, the author of Overtime, gives boys the tools they will need to become men of substance. A touching and honest story, Making Men addresses the dysfunction in the father-son relationship.