Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917University of Chicago Press, 2008 M04 7 - 322 páginas When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro." Jeffries, though, was trounced. Whites everywhere rioted. The furor, Gail Bederman demonstrates, was part of two fundamental and volatile national obsessions: manhood and racial dominance. 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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... example, I was an American girl child, I was told that God walked and talked to a man named Adam in the splendid groves of Eden. The issue is not whether a society tells fictions to itself and others, but which fictions it calls true ...
... example, I was an American girl child, I was told that God walked and talked to a man named Adam in the splendid groves of Eden. The issue is not whether a society tells fictions to itself and others, but which fictions it calls true ...
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... example, she carefully traces the intricate development of the figure of the brutal savage rapist, a figure that eventually became a popular image of well-deserved punishment for uppity feminists. Happily for her reader, she balances ...
... example, she carefully traces the intricate development of the figure of the brutal savage rapist, a figure that eventually became a popular image of well-deserved punishment for uppity feminists. Happily for her reader, she balances ...
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... example, Current Literature predicted Jeffries would win because "the black man . . . fights emotionally, whereas the white man can use his brain after twenty rounds."9 White men were confident that Jef- fries's intrinsic Anglo-Saxon ...
... example, Current Literature predicted Jeffries would win because "the black man . . . fights emotionally, whereas the white man can use his brain after twenty rounds."9 White men were confident that Jef- fries's intrinsic Anglo-Saxon ...
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... example, they have written fine accounts of men's activities in fraternal organizations and in the Boy Scouts. Moreover, these historians, by raising such questions as whether the Progressives experienced a "masculinity crisis," were ...
... example, they have written fine accounts of men's activities in fraternal organizations and in the Boy Scouts. Moreover, these historians, by raising such questions as whether the Progressives experienced a "masculinity crisis," were ...
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... example suggests, then, gender ideology, although coercive, does not preclude human agency. Numerous ideological strands of gender, class, and race positioned Johnson in a web which he could not entirely escape. He was inescapably a man ...
... example suggests, then, gender ideology, although coercive, does not preclude human agency. Numerous ideological strands of gender, class, and race positioned Johnson in a web which he could not entirely escape. He was inescapably a man ...
Contenido
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Ida B Wells Representations of Lynching and Northern MiddleClass Manhood | 45 |
G Stanley Hall Racial Recapitulation and the Neurasthenic Paradox | 77 |
4 Not to SexBut to Race Charlotte Perkins Gilman Civilized AngloSaxon Womanhood and the Return of the Primitive Rapist | 121 |
Manhood Nation and Civilization | 170 |
Conclusion Tarzan and After | 217 |
Notes | 241 |
Bibliography | 289 |
Index | 297 |
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Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the ... Gail Bederman Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
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