A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England by John Tosh

A Man's Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England

John Tosh

252 pages • hardcover • 1999

2 editions

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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A study of the 19th-century middle class male. It shows how profoundly men's lives were conditioned by the Victorian ideal, and how they negotiated its many contradictions. It looks at the experiences of boyhood, married life, sex, and fatherhood,...

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