Manhood in the Making: Cultural Concepts of Masculinity

What does it mean to be a man in different cultures around the world? In the first cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, anthropologist David D. Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manlinesson toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexualityis almost universal, deeply ingrained in the consciousness of hunters and fishermen, workers and warriors, poets and peasants who have little else in common.