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Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity

Autor Gary Cross

Editorial COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS

Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity
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[A] perceptive, eloquent book. Publishers Weekly 8/4/08 Gary Cross slides through twentieth-century culture in loping, eloquent paragraphs. He gives us informed wryness--as when he observes that the patron saint of modern manhood has morphed from Car...

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Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity

Autor Gary Cross

Editorial COLUMBIA UNIV. PRESS

[A] perceptive, eloquent book. Publishers Weekly 8/4/08 Gary Cross slides through twentieth-century culture in loping, eloquent paragraphs. He gives us informed wryness--as when he observes that the patron saint of modern manhood has morphed from Car...

-5% dto.    27,89€
26,50€
Ahorra 1,39€
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Envío gratis
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[A] perceptive, eloquent book. Publishers Weekly 8/4/08 Gary Cross slides through twentieth-century culture in loping, eloquent paragraphs. He gives us informed wryness--as when he observes that the patron saint of modern manhood has morphed from Cary Grant (mature) to Hugh Grant (not)--and then tells us what it means. -- Dan Zak Washington Post 9/14/08 [A] thoughtful journey through the male-strom of modern masculinity. -- Kay Hymowitz Wall Street Journal 9/21/08 An interesting take on the history and development of boy-men... Highly recommended. Library Journal 9/15/08 A thought-provoking read for men and women of all walks of life. Futurist 4/1/09 Cross contributes important lessons to gender and masculinity studies in this roller coaster ride through an intersection of biography and history... Essential. Choice 3/1/09 [This] copiously researched, subtly argued, and lucidly written account of modern immaturity... serves as a needed hair shirt for the regressive adult. -- Christopher Benson Weekly Standard 9/7/09 An important contribution to our understanding of major shifts in cultural values in the second half of the twentieth century. -- Lisa Jacobson H-Childhood 9/1/09 [E]xtremely readable, informative The Family in America Vol. 24 No. 3