David D. Gilmore

What does it mean to "be a man" in different cultures around the world? Anthropologist David D. Gilmore explores this question in a provocative, rewarding cross-cultural survey. (Publishers Weekly) In the first cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, anthropologist David D. Gilmore finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness—on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality—is almost universal....