An edition of Manliness and Civilization (1995)

Manliness & civilization

a cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917

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Manliness & civilization
Gail Bederman
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An edition of Manliness and Civilization (1995)

Manliness & civilization

a cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917

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In turn-of-the-century America, cultural ideals of manhood changed profoundly, as Victorian notions of self-restrained, moral manliness were challenged by ideals of an aggressive, overtly sexualized masculinity. Bederman traces this shift in values and shows how it brought together two seemingly contradictory ideals: the unfettered virility of racially "primitive" men and the refined superiority of "civilized" white men. Focusing on the lives and works of four very different Americans—Theodore Roosevelt, educator G. Stanley Hall, Ida B. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman—she illuminates the ideological, cultural, and social interests these ideals came to serve.

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Manliness & civilization: a cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917
1995, University of Chicago Press, Brand: University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

Remaking manhood through race and "civilization"
"The White man's civilization on trial": Ida B. Wells, representations of lynching, and northern middle-class manhood
"Teaching our sons to do what we have been teaching the savages to avoid": G. Stanley Hall, racial recapitulation, and the neurasthenic paradox
"Not to sex-but to race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, civilized Anglo-Saxon womanhood, and the return of the primitive rapist
Theodore Roosevelt: manhood, nation, and "civilization"
Tarzan and after.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index.

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Women in culture and society
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Manliness and civilization.

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HQ1075.5.U6 B43 1995

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xiii, 307 p. :
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307

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OL23242219M
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0226041387
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9780226041384
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94026936
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