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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... men to be civi- lized and savage at once . The third figure is Charlotte Perkins Gilman , the feminist . Seeking to ... men's movement . He spoke with cheerful awe about going off into the woods with a group of male friends , camping ...
... men to be civi- lized and savage at once . The third figure is Charlotte Perkins Gilman , the feminist . Seeking to ... men's movement . He spoke with cheerful awe about going off into the woods with a group of male friends , camping ...
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... men deserted their families ' holiday picnics . All across America , they gathered in ballparks , theaters , and auditoriums to hear the wire services ' round - by - round reports of the contest . Over thirty thousand men stood outside ...
... men deserted their families ' holiday picnics . All across America , they gathered in ballparks , theaters , and auditoriums to hear the wire services ' round - by - round reports of the contest . Over thirty thousand men stood outside ...
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... men attacked white men who were belittling Johnson . In most of the incidents , however , rampaging white men attacked black men who were celebrating Johnson's victory.11 In Man- hattan , the New York Herald reported , " One negro was ...
... men attacked white men who were belittling Johnson . In most of the incidents , however , rampaging white men attacked black men who were celebrating Johnson's victory.11 In Man- hattan , the New York Herald reported , " One negro was ...
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... men . During these years , a variety of social and cultural factors encour- aged white middle - class men to develop new explanations of why they , as men , ought to wield power and authority . In this context , we can see that ...
... men . During these years , a variety of social and cultural factors encour- aged white middle - class men to develop new explanations of why they , as men , ought to wield power and authority . In this context , we can see that ...
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... men have done , his- torically , to express their manhood . For 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 ...
... men have done , his- torically , to express their manhood . For 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 ...
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the ... Gail Bederman Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
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