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The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries 1870-1930. By Angus McLaren (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1997. viii plus 307pp. $24.95/cloth).
Another book about the "social construction" of gender--an interesting one. Presiding spirit: Foucault. In the dock: "discourse".
Declaring the turn from nineteenth to twentieth century a time of setting "boundaries" to normative masculinity in the West, historian Angus McLaren has assembled a variety of judicial trials involving men accused of transgressing norms of masculinity. These are grouped under a heading "Legal Discourses: Men, Melodrama and Criminality." Analysis of an array of turn-of-century sexology and psychology follows, subsumed as "Medical Discourses: Weak Men and Perverts.
Assertions of power, in McLaren's reading, these discourses…
Source: HighBeam Research, The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries...