Michael S. Kimmel 
The History of Men [PDF ebook] 
Essays on the History of American and British Masculinities

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Invisible Masculinity
American Masculinities
2 Born to Run: Fantasies of Male Escape from Rip Van Winkle to Robert Bly
3 Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832–1920
4 Baseball and the Reconstitution of American Masculinity, 1880–1920
5 Men’s Responses to Feminism at the Turn of the Century
6 The Cult of Masculinity: American Social Character and the Legacy of the Cowboy
7 From “Conscience and Common Sense” to “Feminism for Men”: Pro-Feminist Men’s Rhetoric of Support for Women’s Equality
British Masculinities
8 From Lord and Master to Cuckold and Fop: Masculinity in 17th-Century England
Mundus Foppensis and The Levellers
9 “Greedy Kisses” and “Melting Extasy”: Notes on the Homosexual World of Early 18th-Century England as Found in Love Letters Between a certain late Nobleman and the famous Mr. Wilson
Love Letters Between a certain late Nobleman and the famous Mr. Wilson . . .
Notes
References
Index

Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He has written and edited many books, including
The Gender of Desire: Essays on Male Sexuality, also published by SUNY Press, and
The Gendered Society, Second Edition. He is also the editor of
Men and Masculinities, a leading journal in the field.