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Making the Australian Male: Middle-Class Masculinity 1870-1920
Making the Australian Male MiddleClass Masculinity 18701920 Author:Martin Crotty, Martin Crotty In Making the Australian Male, Martin Crotty explores the changing ideologies of Australian manliness, particularly middle-class masculinity, over a crucial fifty-year period of our history. He examines changing emphases at boys' schools, mutations of the ideal hero in children's literature and boys' adventure stories, and the evolution of boys'... more » organizations such as the Try Society and the Boy Scout movement. In this engrossing book, Martin Crotty shows how re-definitions of middle-class manliness reflect the power relations in Australian society.« less