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Dissertation Information for Eileen Michelle Kilbourne

NAME:
- Eileen Michelle Kilbourne

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- Emory University (USA) (2000)

ADVISORS:
- Jonathan Prude

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Mary E. Odem
- Leon Fink

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Self-made men: The margins of manliness among northern industrial workers, 1850--1920

Abstract: Created by the same economic system, the middle and working classes did not develop from it the same set of values or gender codes. This was especially true of men, who comprised the majority working outside the home and in the capitalist marketplace. While middle-class men created codes of masculinity that sustained the system, working-class men developed codes that deliberately or inadvertently challenged it. Together, these men marked the margins of their own manhood by denigrating in a variety of visual and verbal images the manliness of others. Although intraclass divisions existed, working-class men had ideas and expressions of manhood more similar to one another than to anyone outside their class. Believing that the working class itself was manly, they enfolded workers, even if hierarchically. They also modified their codes of manliness over time, yet continually emphasized pride in manual labor, non-competitiveness, conflict with those outside the working class, and the importance of cooperation within the workplace, community, and especially the family. Consequently, the masculine ethos that working men developed at work and in the community often had inspiration or resonance within the household, affecting their child bearing and child rearing practices, relationships with women and extended kin, forays into what the middle class called the \"feminine domestic sphere,\" consumer purchases, desire for stability, visions and plans for the future, and image of themselves. While middle-class men came closer to representing the national model of the \"self-made man,\" working-class men achieved its cultural analogue. That is, they developed and followed codes of manliness for their own use, and they promoted codes that the dominant society found attractive enough to recast and incorporate into the national model. In this way, working men achieved the cultural equivalent, if not the social-economic reality, of the American dream. They were, in effect, self-made men.

MPACT Scores for Eileen Michelle Kilbourne

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