Measuring manhood : race and the science of masculinity, 1830-1934 / / Melissa N. Stein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815355403321
• Autore: Stein Melissa N.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015; 2015
• ISBN: 1-4529-4468-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetti: Racism - United States - History; Masculinity - United States - History; Sexism - United States - History; Individual differences - Social aspects - United States - History; Individual differences - Political aspects - United States - History; Science - Social aspects - United States - History; Sociobiology - United States - History; United States Race relations History; United States Social conditions 1865-1918; United States Social conditions 1918-1932
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• 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