Quotes by : Thomas Van Nortwick

our contemporary ideas about manliness, reflected in action movies and westerns, generally prohibit so-called....

because women were also believed to be closer to the raw forces of nature than were males, controlling....

women had to be controlled and kept from going wild because of their inherent susceptibility to lust;....

The need to control others as a prerequisite for male agency presupposed self-control. That imperative,....

To grow up, a man must stand apart not only from his mother but from his fellows. Human achievement,....

As the Greeks saw it, to be a man was to be defined by your ability to exert power in a world articulated....