THE HISTORY OF MEN: Essays in the History of American and British Masculinities -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Invisible Masculinity -- American Masculinities -- 2. Born to Run: Fantasies of Male Escape from Rip Van Winkle to Robert Bly -- 3. Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832-1920 -- 4. Baseball and the Reconstitution of American Masculinity, 1880-1920 -- 5. Men's Responses to Feminism at the Turn of the Century -- 6. The Cult of Masculinity: American Social Character and the Legacy of the Cowboy -- 7. From "Conscience and Common Sense" to "Feminism for Men": Pro-Feminist Men's Rhetoric of Support for Women's Equality -- British Masculinities -- 8. From Lord and Master to Cuckold and Fop: Masculinity in 17th-Century England -- MUNDUS FOPPENSIS AND THE LEVELLERS -- 9. "Greedy Kisses" and "Melting Extasy": Notes on the Homosexual World of Early 18th-Century England as Found in Love Letters Between a certain late Nobleman and the famous Mr. Wilson -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.