The Adventurous Male: Chapters in the History of the White Male MindIn this final volume of the trilogy on the theme of adventure begun with The Robinson Crusoe Story and Seven Types of Adventure Tale, Martin Green argues that Western civilization and culture have been inspired and characterized by the idea of adventure as much as by more famous ideas like democracy and justice. Green explores the dimensions of both individual and group or political forms of adventure, uncovering the presence of the adventure idea, and tracing its influence, in various kinds of cultural activity and ideology, from exploration, sports, and nationalistic activity to philosophy, politics, science, and economics. In most cases, he finds a cult of energy, risk, and heroism that answers to the excitement of those stories defined as adventures. Moreover, he demonstrates that the cult is linked to masculinity and certain virtues associated with men rather than women. The Adventurous Male will augment ongoing discussion and debate in the realms of both feminism and the men's movement. |
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... hunting , for example , takes place in such a permissive space where social laws can be flouted . A fundamentally adventurous activity that leads to bloodshed and meat - eating , hunting is linked to war , another activity that is ...
... hunting , the earliest phase of man's struggle for survival , had become the prerogative of the bearers of industrial civilization . " 18 The love of the hunt is always backward - looking . ( Even in ancient Greece , according to John ...
... hunters , but the activity lost prestige in Cromwell's Commonwealth . The ideology of hunting was not in sympathy with that of Puritanism , not even in the secularized form the latter took on in the eighteenth century . Hunting became ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Adventure and Masculinity | 13 |
Adventure Manhood Citizenship | 17 |
Copyright | |
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