Sökning: "self-made man"
Hittade 4 avhandlingar innehållade orden self-made man.
1. Vi är bara några kompisar som träffas ibland : Rotary som en manlig arena
Sammanfattning : I den här avhandlingen undersöks vilka dolda köns- och klassmässiga uttryck som omgärdar organisationen Rotary och dess medlemmar. Boken riktar in sig på de ideal och självbilder som organisationen producerar. LÄS MER
2. Every Man His Own Monument : Self-Monumentalizing in Romantic Britain
Sammanfattning : From framing private homes as museums, to sitting for life masks and appointing biographers, new forms of self-monumentalizing emerged in the early nineteenth century. In this study I investigate the emergence and configuration of such practices in Romantic Britain. LÄS MER
3. The power of character : Middle-class masculinities, 1800–1900
Sammanfattning : This is a study of continuity and change in middle-class conceptions of ideal manhood. My theoretical cues are the notions of the male as an unproblematised and genderless norm, masculinity as homosocial, and George L. Mosse’s use of countertypes. Notions of passions, youth, and character were important throughout the century. LÄS MER
4. Building American entrepreneurs : male commercial selves and the road to success in the US 1873-1914
Sammanfattning : The thesis investigates the origins of the American entrepreneur, what popularly has been called the self-made man. It traces the building of the self-made man as a commercial ideal self, leading to the narratives of US entrepreneurship and the road to ‘success’. LÄS MER