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What About the Men

Men and History

Men and History

“Don’t forget the ladies” – Abigail Adams

"Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the (servants) of your sex; regard us then as being placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our

happiness”

Male Beauty

Teachers should

pay greater attention to physical appearance, value placed on male beauty, and the adornment and manipulation of the male

body

On a basic level, physical beauty and appearance is significant for both men

and women; obsessions with beauty affected men and women equally in the

past – as in the present

Albrecht Durer

The “self-portrait as Ecce Homo” in Munich is arguably the most developed of all the self-portraits painted by

Dürer

. While at first glance the fact of portraying himself as Jesus Christ could be interpreted as an act of self-idolatry, it should be noticed that the image of the Ecce Homo is the quintessential representation of pain and suffering. Humanity as a symbol and essence of the

artist

David: Humanistic

Marble Sculpture

Expulsion of Adam and Eve

Expulsion of Adam and Eve (1427)

Baldassare

Castiglione (1478-1529)

The Book of the Courtier (1528)

Perhaps the most important work on Renaissance education

Specific qualities of a true gentlemen; rejected crude contemporary habits

Described the ideal of a “Renaissance Man”

Virtú

Louis XIV

Men and History

The

study of physical appearance and the personal experience of beauty and ugliness might help us to understand how militarism, athleticism, and imperialism (three areas that historians of masculinity have explored in great detail) influenced standards of attractiveness and personal gender expression

Frederick the Great

Men and War

Race and Beauty

Eugenics

have touched on some of these themes in recent studies, new histories of the eugenics movement will, in the future, need to pay much closer attention to aesthetics and

beauty

Mongolian

Race and Imperialism

Champs-

Elysées

Modern History/Metrosexual

David Beckham

Style and dress

Sex appeal for men

Modern History/Metrosexual

European History Exam

Approximately half of the multiple-choice questions cover the period from 1450 to the French Revolution and Napoleonic era, and half cover the period from the French Revolution and Napoleonic era to the present, evenly divided between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  About one-third of the questions focus on cultural and intellectual themes, one-third on political and diplomatic themes, and one-third on social and economic themes. Many questions draw on knowledge of more than one chronological period or

theme

FRQ

Analyze the ways in which the rise of the middle class affected family structure and gender roles in Europe in

the 1800s.

Analyze various ways in which ideology shaped the foreign policy of Nazi Germany in the period 1933

through 1945.

Analyze various factors that contributed to the process of decolonization in the period 1914 to1975

.

FRQ

Analyze how industrialization and imperialism contributed to the development of

consumer culture in the period 1850–1914.

How did Europeans perceive the role of organized sports in Europe during the period from 1860 to 1940?

Analyze the economic and social challenges faced by Western Europe in the period

from 1945 to 1989.