The Rhetoric Of Manhood

Author : Joseph Roisman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931138

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The Rhetoric of Manhood by Joseph Roisman Pdf

The concept of manhood was immensely important in ancient Athens, shaping its political, social, legal, and ethical systems. This book, a groundbreaking study of manhood in fourth-century Athens, is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of notions about masculinity found in the Attic orators, who represent one of the most important sources for understanding the social history of this period. While previous studies have assumed a uniform ideology about manhood, Joseph Roisman finds that Athenians had quite varied opinions about what constituted manly values and conduct. He situates the evidence for ideas about manhood found in the Attic orators in its historical, ideological, and theoretical contexts to explore various manifestations of Athenian masculinity as well as the rhetoric that both articulated and questioned it. Roisman focuses on topics such as the nexus between manhood and age; on Athenian men in their roles as family members, friends, and lovers; on the concept of masculine shame; on relations between social and economic status and manhood; on manhood in the military and politics; on the manly virtue of self-control; and on what men feared.

Author : Joseph Roisman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520932919

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The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens by Joseph Roisman Pdf

The Attic orators, whose works are an invaluable source on the social and political history of Classical Athens, often filled their speeches with charges of conspiracy involving almost every facet of Athenian life. There are allegations of plots against men's lives, property, careers, and reputations as well as charges of conspiracy against the public interest, the government, the management of foreign affairs, and more. Until now, however, this obsession with conspiracy has received little scholarly attention. In order to develop the first full picture of this important feature of Athenian discourse, Joseph Roisman examines the range and nature of the conspiracy charges. He asks why they were so popular, and considers their rhetorical, cultural, and psychological significance. He also investigates the historical likelihood of the scenarios advanced for these plots, and asks what their prevalence suggests about the Athenians and their worldview. He concludes by comparing ancient and modern conspiracy theories. In addition to shedding new light on Athenian history and culture, his study provides an invaluable perspective on the use of conspiracy as a rhetorical ploy.

Author : Joseph Roisman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0520931130

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The Rhetoric of Manhood by Joseph Roisman Pdf

The concept of manhood was immensely important in ancient Athens, shaping its political, social, legal, and ethical systems. This book, a groundbreaking study of manhood in fourth-century Athens, is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of notions about masculinity found in the Attic orators, who represent one of the most important sources for understanding the social history of this period. While previous studies have assumed a uniform ideology about manhood, Joseph Roisman finds that Athenians had quite varied opinions about what constituted manly values and conduct. He situates the evidence for ideas about manhood found in the Attic orators in its historical, ideological, and theoretical contexts to explore various manifestations of Athenian masculinity as well as the rhetoric that both articulated and questioned it. Roisman focuses on topics such as the nexus between manhood and age; on Athenian men in their roles as family members, friends, and lovers; on the concept of masculine shame; on relations between social and economic status and manhood; on manhood in the military and politics; on the manly virtue of self-control; and on what men feared.

Author : Donnalyn Pompper
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793626899

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Rhetoric of Masculinity by Donnalyn Pompper Pdf

Rhetoric of Masculinity: Male Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict lends depth and global nuance to discourse associated with the masculinity concept as it brings to bear on males' self-image, role in society, media representations of them, and the gender role stress/conflict experienced when they fail to measure up to social standards associated with what it means to be manly. Even though the concept of masculine gender role stress/conflict has received substantial scholarly attention in psychology, social learning effects of masculinity as it plays out in media warrant further study given that representations offer audiences restrictive male gender roles that may contribute to toxic masculinity. Men and boys are taught to be self-sufficient, to act tough, to be muscular, heterosexual, and to use aggression to resolve conflicts. Such contexts provide restrictive images that can result in self harm and an inflexible social milieu. Scholars and students of communication, rhetoric, and gender studies will find this book particularly interesting.

Author : Erik Gunderson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780472111398

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Staging Masculinity by Erik Gunderson Pdf

Examines ancient notions of what constitutes a "good man"

Author : Maud Worcester Gleason
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3364922

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Embodying the Rhetoric of Manhood by Maud Worcester Gleason Pdf

Author : Steve Estes
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807876336

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I Am a Man! by Steve Estes Pdf

The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what American society should be. Estes demonstrates that, at crucial turning points in the movement, both segregationists and civil rights activists harnessed masculinist rhetoric, tapping into implicit assumptions about race, gender, and sexuality. Estes begins with an analysis of the role of black men in World War II and then examines the segregationists, who demonized black male sexuality and galvanized white men behind the ideal of southern honor. He then explores the militant new models of manhood espoused by civil rights activists such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., and groups such as the Nation of Islam, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and the Black Panther Party. Reliance on masculinist organizing strategies had both positive and negative consequences, Estes concludes. Tracing these strategies from the integration of the U.S. military in the 1940s through the Million Man March in the 1990s, he shows that masculinism rallied men to action but left unchallenged many of the patriarchal assumptions that underlay American society.

Author : Mark E. Kann
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814748473

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A Republic of Men by Mark E. Kann Pdf

What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms of manhood–exemplified by "the Family Man," for instance--were deployed as a means of stigmatizing unworthy men, rewarding responsible men with citizenship, and empowering exceptional men with positions of leadership and authority, while excluding women from public life. Kann suggests that the founders committed themselves in theory to the democratic proposition that all men were created free and equal and could not be governed without their own consent, but that they in no way believed that "all men" could be trusted with equal liberty, equal citizenship, or equal authority. The founders developed a "grammar of manhood" to address some difficult questions about public order. Were America's disorderly men qualified for citizenship? Were they likely to recognize manly leaders, consent to their authority, and defer to their wisdom? A Republic of Men compellingly analyzes the ways in which the founders used a rhetoric of manhood to stabilize American politics.

Author : Leigh Ann Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Masculinity
ISBN : 0814103766

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From Boys to Men by Leigh Ann Jones Pdf

Author : Casey Ryan Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0814214320

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Apocalypse Man by Casey Ryan Kelly Pdf

"Examines white masculine victimhood by looking at the rhetoric of gender-motivated mass shooters, white supremacists, online misogynist and incel communities, survivalists and doomsday preppers, gun culture and political rallies, and political demagogues"-Provided by publisher"--

Author : Maud W. Gleason
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691137346

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Making Men by Maud W. Gleason Pdf

Ch. 1. Favorinus and His Statue -- Ch. 2. Portrait of Polemo: The Deportment of the Public Self -- Ch. 3. Deportment as Language Physiognomy and the Semiotics of Gender -- Ch. 4. Aerating the Flesh: Voice Training and the Calisthenics of Gender -- Ch. 5. Voice and Virility in Rhetorical Writers -- Ch. 6. Manhood Achieved through Speech: A Eunuch-Philosopher's Self-Fashioning.

Author : Cynthia Barounis
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781439915073

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Vulnerable Constitutions by Cynthia Barounis Pdf

Amputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London’s fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternative—even resistant—epistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical damage, and bodily contamination have stimulated—rather than created a crisis for—masculine characters in twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literature. Barounis introduces the concept of “anti-prophylactic citizenship”—a mode of political belonging characterized by vulnerability, receptivity, and risk—to examine counternarratives of American masculinity. Investigating the work of authors including London, William Faulkner, James Baldwin, and Eli Clare, she presents an evolving narrative of medicalized sexuality and anti-prophylactic masculinity. Her literary readings interweave queer theory, disability studies, and the history of medicine to demonstrate how evolving scientific conversations around deviant genders and sexualities gave rise to a new model of national belonging—ultimately rewriting the story of American masculinity as a story of queer-crip rebellion.

Author : Nathan D. Howard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316514764

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Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity by Nathan D. Howard Pdf

By exploring gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity, this book contributes to discussions about how gender, identity formation, and materiality shaped episcopal office and theology in late antiquity.

Author : Leigh Ann Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Masculinity
ISBN : 0814103758

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From Boys to Men by Leigh Ann Jones Pdf

Explores performances of developing young male identity in case studies from twentieth- and twenty-first-century federal and civic organizations that recruit boys and young men using appeals to American national identity, often coding these appeals as character building.

Author : William J. Dominik
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0415125448

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Roman Eloquence by William J. Dominik Pdf

Rhetoric is once again becoming valued as an essential element in the exploration of the ancient world. This volume is part of a general renaissance in the study of rhetoric and draws together established and newer scholars in the field to produce a probing and innovative analysis of the role played by rhetoric in Roman culture. Utilizing a variety of critical approaches and methodologies, the contributors examine not only the role of rhetoric in Roman society but also the relationship between rhetoric and Rome's major literary genres.RomanEloquenceemphasizes the theory and practice of rhetoric in a variety of social, political and literary contexts, and reveals the important role played by rhetoric in the formation of the various genres of literatures.