In "Of Queen's Gardens," John Ruskin argues "the man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention, his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary." This is counter to his expcetation that the woman stays home to defend and soften the home. The home he says "is the place of Peach; the shelter, not only from all injury, but from all error, doubt, and division." The form of the husband fits into this model of the home as Ruskin describes.
This description of an an active, progressive, defensive masculinity is also closely related to concepts of imperialist masculinity:
