Making Manhood : Growing Up Male in Colonial New England / Anne S. Lombard.
Lombard, Anne S., author.
2013
HQ1090.5.N36
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Title Making Manhood : Growing Up Male in Colonial New England / Anne S. Lombard.
Author Lombard, Anne S., author.
Edition Reprint 2014
ISBN 9780674418158
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418158
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2003
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (244 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674418158 doi
Call Number HQ1090.5.N36
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.31/0974
Summary Countering our image of early Anglo-American families as dominated by harsh, austere patriarchs, Anne Lombard challenges long-held assumptions about the history of family life by casting a fresh look at the experience of growing up male in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New England. Drawing upon sources ranging from men's personal writings to court records to medical literature, Lombard finds that New England's Puritan settlers and their descendants shared a distinctive ideal of manhood that decisively shaped the lives of boys and men. At its core was a suspicion of emotional attachments between men and women. Boys were taken under their father's wing from a young age and taught the virtues of reason, responsibility, and maturity. Intimate bonds with mothers were discouraged, as were individual expression, pride, and play. The mature man who moderated his passions and contributed to his family and community was admired, in sharp contrast to the young, adventurous, and aggressive hero who would emerge after the American Revolution and embody our modern image of masculinity. Lombard writes with empathy and sensitivity of colonial life and the ways in which it interacted not only with male experience but also with the larger political history of eighteenth-century America.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Ideal of Rational Manhood
1 Fathers and Sons from Infancy through Boyhood
2 Youth and the Passions: Friendship and Love before 1700
3 Youth and the Challenge of the Eighteenth Century
4 Manhood and Marriage
5 Manliness and the Use of Force
6 Manhood and Politics
Epilogue: Intimate Relationships and Autonomous Manhood in the Nineteenth Century
Notes
Index

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