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Forever England: Reflections on Masculinity and Empire
Jonathan Rutherford
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Description for Forever England: Reflections on Masculinity and Empire
Paperback. Reflections on Race, Masculinity and Empire. 224 pages. This volume is a series of reflections about the effects on English white masculinity of Britain's history of empire, from Victorian times to the present day. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR; JFSJ2. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 14. Weight: 226.
This volume is a series of reflections about the effects on English white masculinity of Britain's history of empire, from Victorian times to the present day. The author analyzes the pathological middle-class family of Victorian times: where absent but overbearing fathers ruled with an iron rod; where mothers, their own lives hedged about with restriction, presided over a stifling and repressed domestic life; where adolescent boys were sent away to authoritarian single-sex public schools that were a cross between a monastery and an army camp. Small wonder that generations of dysfunctional men were produced, suffering from mother fixation, narcissism and ... Read more
This volume is a series of reflections about the effects on English white masculinity of Britain's history of empire, from Victorian times to the present day. The author analyzes the pathological middle-class family of Victorian times: where absent but overbearing fathers ruled with an iron rod; where mothers, their own lives hedged about with restriction, presided over a stifling and repressed domestic life; where adolescent boys were sent away to authoritarian single-sex public schools that were a cross between a monastery and an army camp. Small wonder that generations of dysfunctional men were produced, suffering from mother fixation, narcissism and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Lawrence And Wishart Ltd
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780853158288
SKU
V9780853158288
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