Making Manhood Growing Up Male In Colonial New England Anne S Lombard by Anne S. Lombard 9780674418158, 9780674418141, 9780674010581, 0674418158, 067441814X, 0674010582 instant download after payment.

At its core was a suspicion of emotional attachments between men and women. Boys were taken under their father’s wing from a young age and taught the virtues of reason, responsibility, and maturity. Intimate bonds with mothers were discouraged, as were individual expression, pride, and play. The mature man who moderated his passions and contributed to his family and community was admired, in sharp contrast to the young, adventurous, and aggressive hero who would emerge after the American Revolution and embody our modern image of masculinity.

Lombard writes with empathy and sensitivity of colonial life and the ways in which it interacted not only with male experience but also with the larger political history of eighteenth-century America.