| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Roger Horowitz, editor. Boys and Their Toys? Masculinity, Technology, and Class in America. (Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture.) New York: Routledge. 2001. Pp. vi, 282. Cloth $85.00, paper $24.95.

As a collection of essays arising out of a conference, the focus of this book seems elusive. The subject at hand is neither as fresh as editor Roger Horowitz claims, nor as original as absent citations in the essays would lead one to believe (the work of Roy Rosenzweig and John Kasson, for examples, both of whom have had much to say on work, leisure, and gender, is rarely mentioned in these pages). What unites the essays is an emphasis on labor studies. Most of these pieces focus closely on specific job sites or groups of workers. As Horowitz argues in the introduction, conceptions of gender arise out of a subtle interplay of discourse and social experience. How we think, write, or talk about gender and how we live it in specific contexts are not isolated but interactive. Yet the essays here often stray from that sensible position, returning again and again to specific workplaces, as if masculinity gets wholly reinvented with every slight change in social circumstances.

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