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  • Tags: masculinity

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This is an advertisement for lifebuoy soap. It emphasizes cleanliness as a means to social advancement.

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This is an advertisement for Colgate shaving cream. The ad emphasizes the importance of a man's personal appearance by stating that the shaved face had become a social requirement.

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This is an advertisement for ivory soap. This advertisement illuminates some of the tensions facing modern men. It advertises ivory soap by appealing to emotion. The advertisement claims that ivory soup can alleviate many tensions that modern men may…

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A photo of popular bodybuilder Eugen Sandow who used his body to create an idealized image of manhood during the Progressive Era.


White Angel Breadline.jpg
A man looks downcast as he waits in line for food during the Depression.

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A cartoon illustration depicting an effeminate man from the magazine Broadway Brevities. Its main message is that there is "no difference" between women and the effeminate man in the picture.
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