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Making a Man of Him - Parents and Their Sons' Education at an English Public School 1929-50 (Paperback)
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Making a Man of Him - Parents and Their Sons' Education at an English Public School 1929-50 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education and Gender
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Originally published in 1988, this book analyses the effect of
public boarding school on those boys who grew to manhood under its
influence. With access to over 2000 letters written by parents to
the Head Master and governors of Ellesmere College in the period
1929-50, it raises issues about the construction of masculinity in
the mid-twentieth century. The author demonstrates from these
candid letters the concerns of a small group of parents bringing up
their sons: their aspirations, plans, fears and problems. She shows
how parents' plans changed, sometimes very dramatically, due to the
Second World War, and demonstrates the differences between social
groups as diverse as clergy, widows and farmers in bringing up
their sons. The author also presents fascinating and elusive
evidence about the sons themselves and the effects of their
schooling on their models of masculinity, sexuality and attitudes
to women. This book places the particular concerns of a relatively
small group within the much wider contexts of education, social and
gender structure.
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