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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... supremacy movements — United States — History . 5. United States— Civilization . I. Title . II . Title : Manliness and civilization . III . Series . HQ1075.5.U6B43 1995 305.3'0973 - dc20 94-26936 CIP The paper used in this publication ...
... supremacy movements — United States — History . 5. United States— Civilization . I. Title . II . Title : Manliness and civilization . III . Series . HQ1075.5.U6B43 1995 305.3'0973 - dc20 94-26936 CIP The paper used in this publication ...
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... supremacy . Fi- nally , Bederman crisply anatomizes Theodore Roosevelt , a prime advocate of and actor in an international drama of virile white manhood . Fearful of " race suicide , " Roosevelt encouraged white men and women to ...
... supremacy . Fi- nally , Bederman crisply anatomizes Theodore Roosevelt , a prime advocate of and actor in an international drama of virile white manhood . Fearful of " race suicide , " Roosevelt encouraged white men and women to ...
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... supremacy were very publicly hoist by their own petards . They had insisted upon framing the fight as a contest to demon- strate which race could produce the superior specimen of virile manhood . Johnson's victory was so lopsided that ...
... supremacy were very publicly hoist by their own petards . They had insisted upon framing the fight as a contest to demon- strate which race could produce the superior specimen of virile manhood . Johnson's victory was so lopsided that ...
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... supremacy in terms of white racial dominance and , conversely , to explain white supremacy in terms of male power . This book will investigate this turn - of - the - century connection between manhood and race . It will argue that ...
... supremacy in terms of white racial dominance and , conversely , to explain white supremacy in terms of male power . This book will investigate this turn - of - the - century connection between manhood and race . It will argue that ...
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... supremacy to produce a racially based ideology of male power . Hazel Carby has called for " more feminist work that interrogates sexual ideologies for their racial specificity and ac- knowledges whiteness , not just blackness , as a ...
... supremacy to produce a racially based ideology of male power . Hazel Carby has called for " more feminist work that interrogates sexual ideologies for their racial specificity and ac- knowledges whiteness , not just blackness , as a ...
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 |
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the ... Gail Bederman Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
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