Measuring Manhood [[electronic resource] ] : Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461037403321
• Autore: Stein Melissa N
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2015
• ISBN: 1-4529-4468-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.31097309034
• Soggetti: MEDICAL / History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Introduction: Making Race, Marking Difference; 1. "Races of Men": Ethnology in Antebellum America; 2. An "Equal Beard" for "Equal Voting": Gender and Citizenship in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Redemption; 3. Inverts, Perverts, and Primitives: Racial Thought and the American School of Sexology; 4. Unsexing the Race: Lynching, Castration, and Racial Science; 5. Walter White, Scientific Racism, and the NAACP Anti-lynching Campaign; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Appendix. Charting Racial Science: Data and Methodology; Notes; Index