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Masculinity, Autobiography and History
Author(s) -
MORGAN DAVID
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0424.1990.tb00076.x
Subject(s) - reflexive pronoun , masculinity , set (abstract data type) , wish , biography , epistemology , frame (networking) , front (military) , aesthetics , sociology , history , philosophy , gender studies , art history , computer science , anthropology , telecommunications , mechanical engineering , engineering , programming language
Men's history—masculine history, if you will—begins when we redefine our usual notion of historical significance and when we shift our usual frame of reference. Once we have made these two conceptual adjustments, we uncover some secrets hidden in the familiar landscape of the past. More often—and ultimately more important—as we shift our angle of vision, we recognise new meanings in the evidence that lay in front of our eyes all along. 1 A man would never set out to write a book on the peculiar situation of the human male. But if I wish to define myself I must first of all say: ‘I am a woman’; a man never begins by presenting himself as an individual of a certain sex, it goes without saying that he is a man. 2