Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America ; Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920 [Book Review]
Level 5 - mechanism / opinion, no new human data
Level 5 by design analogy, not clinical CEBM: book review with no primary empirical data.
What was done
The record presents a book review covering two historical works: Lynne Luciano's Looking Good: Male Body Image in Modern America and John Pettigrew's Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920.
What was found
The abstract provides only bibliographic citations for the two books and reports no narrative findings, critique, or quantitative data.
Why it matters
It indexes a scholarly review addressing historical perspectives on male body image and masculinity in the United States.
Limits
This is a book review citation rather than an empirical study; the abstract contains no substantive analysis, evaluation, or data.
Cited by
- context Historical research by Lynne Luciano documents that male beautification and grooming practices have increased steadily decade over decade since the 1990s.