...This chapter begins by examining how basic Confucian and Chinese literacy was expected of boys and young men of middle- and upper-class family backgrounds. There is no intrinsic theological connection, however, between book-based Confucian learning and the moral norms that shaped gender...

.... They shouted, “Beat the Jews,” “away with the Jews” the most, and they searched for Jews in the train cars, dragging them out onto the platform. They took their money, baggage, watches, and active and demobilized military men beat them with stones and shot them to the shouts and applause of crazed passengers...

... despite the increasing homogenization of the company's line, the developments of the 1970s left their mark. More than that, they played a role in the success of the sales juggernaut of the 1980s: The Uncanny X-Men. Here, the chapter briefly turns to the career of Chris Claremont...

... and male religious life. The disruptions it caused could be used as a pretext to force a young woman into the convent, ostensibly for her own protection. For both women and men, ongoing or impending hostilities could complicate efforts to gain release. War also had a more direct impact on male adolescents...

...This chapter concerns the stories of Vera Vasilevskaia and Elena Men, who seamlessly weave their own journeys into the framework of a community that functioned apart from the state in the Stalin era. In the process, they offer a larger view of the catacomb community, such as its personalities...

...This chapter looks into the lives of trans women in Byzantium. In this era, women and femininity were almost always seen as the lesser, imperfect sex, thus becoming a woman gave no social or spiritual gain. Narratives of men assigned females at birth and female masculinity show how the status...

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...This chapter focuses on the patriarchal roots of philanthropy. It highlights how private-sector philanthropy flourishes under capitalist patriarchy. Additionally, gender and class hierarchies are unambiguously present in the work. The chapter explains the differences between the donation of men...

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...This chapter turns to migrant Hindu men from the west who—no less than the Bengali women from the east—have to work to belong locally. Although the men in this chapter are no strangers to the state (i.e., they are Hindu rather than Muslim), who welcomes them into the fold of the nation as always...

...This chapter considers nursing as a kind of love, one that ends when the patients leave; in other words, leaving ends the love. Focusing on James Agee's book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, it reflects on what it means to suffer, to struggle to live in spite of suffering. Let...

...This chapter focuses on the National Convention of Colored Men held in Syracuse, New York, in October 1864. The convention brought together a broader spectrum of northern black activists than had any previous African American meeting. It launched the northern black struggle for equal rights, which...

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...This chapter focuses on men, the only empowered contingent of the suffrage movement. While some men had always voiced support for woman suffrage, no sustained men's organization existed in the state until 1908. That year, Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage...

...This chapter examines the ideas and strategies of the managerial elite in interwar Japan. During the 1930s, three groups were identified as representing a new political and economic force in Japan. The press referred to them as the “new military men,” “new zaibatsu,” and “new-new bureaucrats...

...This chapter looks into the rejection of some men in the local marriage market. It explains how the marriage market has been shaped by the prospective groom's steady employment. Men with government jobs (sarkari naukri) do not have a shortage of marriage proposals. Moreover...

... utilizes a prosopographical methodology in order to trace the military careers of members of eighteen chivalric lineages from the Battle of Montaperti in 1260 through the Florentine war against Pisa in 1360–64. It shows that strenuous Florentine knights and men-at-arms from chivalric lineages continued...

...This chapter explores the ordering, the experience, and the performance of the queer city in the streets by connecting key phenomena symptomatic of urbanization and modernization to reports of queer life. It looks at cruising by drawing on parallels between flaneurs and queer men, both of whom...

... on this framework to establish how the évolué shaped modern Abidjanais masculinity. It then explores how the French civilizing mission, or mission civilisatrice, sought to acculturate African men into whiteness, a pursuit that rendered registers of race and culture equivalent and was expressed...