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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, deeply ingrained in the consciousness of hunters and fishermen, workers and warriors, poets and peasants who have little else in common.Gilmore, David D. is the author of 'Manhood in the Making Cultural Concepts of Masculinity', published 1991 under ISBN 9780300050769 and ISBN 0300050763.
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