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Berger, Martin A. "Determining Manhood: Constructions of Sexuality in the Art of Thomas Eakins," American Studies Program, Yale University, July 1995.
Focusing on Thomas Eakins’s paintings, this dissertation explicates the canvases’ various constructions of manhood, speculating on how the works both reproduced and conditioned Victorian masculinity. Given what I take to be Eakins’s masculine “failings,” and considering both masculinity’s malleability and its importance in inducting men into American culture, I suggest that the paintings offered a metaphoric means of stabilizing, moderating, or improving mens’ masculine positions. Drawing on the works’ visual evidence, period documentation, and modern critical paradigms, I posit that the paintings present alternate, male subject positions by selectively drawing on the complex and contradictory attributes of Victorian masculine ideals.
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