Men's Fashion in the Twentieth Century

Men's Fashion in the Twentieth Century

Author: Maria Costantino

Publisher: Batsford

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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Traces the evolution of men's clothes from the conventions laid down by the Victorians to the textile developments that determine fashion today.


Let Us Make Men

Let Us Make Men

Author: D'Weston Haywood

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1469643405

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During its golden years, the twentieth-century black press was a tool of black men's leadership, public voice, and gender and identity formation. Those at the helm of black newspapers used their platforms to wage a fight for racial justice and black manhood. In a story that stretches from the turn of the twentieth century to the rise of the Black Power movement, D'Weston Haywood argues that black people's ideas, rhetoric, and protest strategies for racial advancement grew out of the quest for manhood led by black newspapers. This history departs from standard narratives of black protest, black men, and the black press by positioning newspapers at the intersections of gender, ideology, race, class, identity, urbanization, the public sphere, and black institutional life. Shedding crucial new light on the deep roots of African Americans' mobilizations around issues of rights and racial justice during the twentieth century, Let Us Make Men reveals the critical, complex role black male publishers played in grounding those issues in a quest to redeem black manhood.


Twentieth Century Men

Twentieth Century Men

Author: Richard Wilson

Publisher: novum pro Verlag

Published: 2022-04-18

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 3991076136

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Twentieth Century Men is a family saga that traces the lives of the Wilson family starting in 1888 and continuing through three generations of Wilsons until 2006. It describes how the men survived two World Wars in which they served their country gallantly and how they prospered in business as well as excelling in sporting activities. Dick, the eldest son, was involved in actions taken to quell the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya where he participated in the vital intelligence work that led to the early capture of the main instigators. He was also involved in organising the visit of the Queen Mother before continuing his service in Borneo, Zambia and South Africa.


The People's Peking Man

The People's Peking Man

Author: Sigrid Schmalzer

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-05-15

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0226738612

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In the 1920s an international team of scientists and miners unearthed the richest evidence of human evolution the world had ever seen: Peking Man. After the communist revolution of 1949, Peking Man became a prominent figure in the movement to bring science to the people. In a new state with twin goals of crushing “superstition” and establishing a socialist society, the story of human evolution was the first lesson in Marxist philosophy offered to the masses. At the same time, even Mao’s populist commitment to mass participation in science failed to account for the power of popular culture—represented most strikingly in legends about the Bigfoot-like Wild Man—to reshape ideas about human nature. The People’s Peking Man is a skilled social history of twentieth-century Chinese paleoanthropology and a compelling cultural—and at times comparative—history of assumptions and debates about what it means to be human. By focusing on issues that push against the boundaries of science and politics, The People’s Peking Man offers an innovative approach to modern Chinese history and the history of science.


Masculinities without Men?

Masculinities without Men?

Author: Jean Bobby Noble

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2010-10-01

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 0774859849

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Conventional ideas about gender and sexuality dictate that people born with male bodies naturally possess both a man's identity and a man's right to authority. Recent scholarship in the field of gender studies, however, exposes the complex political technologies that construct gender as a supposedly unchanging biological essence with self-evident links to physicality, identity, and power. In Masculinities without Men? Jean Bobby Noble explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, resulting in a permanent rupture in the sex/gender system, and how masculinity became an unstable category, altered across time, region, social class, and ethnicity.


Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century

Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century

Author: Mark Lilly

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1993-11

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0814750818

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In gay men's writing, tenderness lies side by side with rage; existential rejection of convention rubs shoulders with sexual hedonism. Beginning with Wilde's and Byron's existentialist outlaw, the theme of social rebellion, and the fight against conformity, form a common link among the literary works of the twentieth century. But mainstream academic criticism has shown itself for the most part incapable of engaging gay work without distorting or ignoring its most central features.


People of the Century

People of the Century

Author: CBS News

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 0684870932

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The one hundred most influential people of the twentieth century, as selected by the editors of Time magazine and featured in a series of documentaries produced by CBS.