A Man's Place

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A Man's Place is written by John Tosh and published by Yale University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0300077793 (ISBN 10) and 9780300077797 (ISBN 13).

Tosh begins by looking at the experience of boyhood, married life, sex and fatherhood in the early decades of the nineteenth century - illustrated by case-studies representing a variety of backgrounds - and then contrasts this with the lives of the late Victorian generation. By the 1870s, men were becoming less enchanted with the pleasures of home. Once the rights of wives were extended by law and society, marriage seemed less attractive, and the bachelor world of clubland flourished as never before.