Manly Traditions

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Take this test. You think today's sensitive, caring man is: (a) a myth, (b) an oxymoron, or (c) a moron. No matter whether you laugh at this bit of folkhumor, its wide circulation bespeaks a modern predicament for American men.Men's "manly" traditions have been shaken in an age of"sensitivity." Some observers have even referred to a crisis ofmasculinity for a new generation of boys. In Manly Traditions, established scholarsin the fields of folklore, men's studies, and gender studies identify the folkloricroots of what it means to be a man in America. In a lively volume they examine thetraditions men inherit and adapt for their own purposes in contemporarylife.