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Masculinity, the Embodied Male Worker, and the Historian’s Gaze

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2006

Ava Baron
Affiliation:
Rider University

Abstract

While historians have provided insights into the ways women's work culture and labor organizing were infused with issues of sex, sexuality and appearance, they have not similarly examined the white male working body. This article discusses the significance of this different analysis for our understanding of men workers and for its ability to continue to marginalize women at the workplace. It considers how to incorporate the “bodily turn” in history by examining three conceptual themes in research on working-class masculinity: masculinity crises, muscular masculinity, and homosociality.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2006 International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc.

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