Boys and their Toys (eBook, ePUB)

Masculinity, Class and Technology in America
Redaktion: Horowitz, Roger

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Negotiating the divide between "e;respectable manhood"e; and "e;rough manhood"e; this book explores masculinity at work and at play through provocative essays on labor unions, railroads, vocational training programs, and NASCAR racing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135304553
• Artikelnr.: 39908829

Autorenporträt

Roger Horowitz is the associate director of the Hagley Museum and Library's Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society in Wilmington, Delaware. He is author of Negro and White Unite: A Social History Industrial Unionism in Meatpacking, and is editor of Hisand Hers: Gender Consumption, and Technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Roger Horowitz Part 1: Manhood in the Workplace 1. Work
Play and Power: Masculine Culture on the Automotive Shop Floor
1930-1960
Stephen Meyer 2. To Make Men out of Crude Material: Work Culture
Manhood and Unionism in the Railroad Running Trades
c. 1870-1900
Paul Michel Taillon 3. Now That We have Girls in the Office: Clerical Work
Masculinity and the Refashioning of Gender for a Bureaucratic Age
Janet F. Davidson 4. Rereading Man's Conquest of Nature: Skill
Myths and the Historical Construction of Masculinity in Western Extractive Industries
Nancy Quam-Wickham Part 2: Learning to Be Men 5. Building Better Men: The CCC Boy and the Changing Social Ideal of Manliness
Jeffrey Ryan Suzik 6. Boys and Their Toys: The Fischer Body Craftman's Guild
1930-1968
and the Making of a Male Technical Domain
Ruth Oldenziel 7. Masculine Guidance: Boys
Men and Newspapers
1930-1939
Todd Alexander Postol Part 3: Manhood at Play 8. Everyday Peter Pans: Work
Manhood and Consumption in Urban America
1900-1930
Woody Register 9. Masculinity
the Auto Racing Fraternity and the Technological Sublime: The Pit Stop as a Celebration of Social Roles
Ben A. Shackleford 10. Rights of Men
Rites of Passage: Hunting and Masculinity at Reo Motors of Lansing
Michigan
1945-1975
Lisa Fine Contributors Permissions Acknowledgments Index