It promoted mutualism among railroad men yet at the same time involved bourgeois values and looked to a cross-class homosocial mutualism encompassing management and workers. |
As in the traditional form of the myth, the homosocial bonds forged between the heroes unite the black and white males against the repression represented by women and the law. |
In fact, such laws were often inspired by imperial anxieties about homosocial cultures among their subordinate peoples. |
Using their homosocial friendships as models, they had negotiated a set of shared guiding values that they hoped would help them have an egalitarian marriage. |
It is a world that existed unquestioned under Queen Victoria, the maternal centre of this homosocial world. |
Working-class masculinity was rooted in the more homosocial worlds of the trade union, the lodge, and other male-dominated urban spaces. |