03796nam 2200625 a 450 991045446690332120200520144314.00-8018-9172-81-4356-9266-7(CKB)1000000000705375(EBL)3318356(OCoLC)923192807(SSID)ssj0000115339(PQKBManifestationID)11132047(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115339(PQKBWorkID)10005040(PQKB)11334064(MiAaPQ)EBC3318356(OCoLC)652351779(MdBmJHUP)muse2594(Au-PeEL)EBL3318356(CaPaEBR)ebr10256358(EXLCZ)99100000000070537520060808d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBrutes in suits[electronic resource] male sensibility in America, 1890-1920 /John PettegrewBaltimore Johns Hopkins University Press20071 online resource (424 p.)Gender relations in the American experienceDescription based upon print version of record.0-8018-8603-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-398) and index.Contents; Preface; Introduction. The De-Evolutionary Turn in U.S. Masculinity; Darwin and Evolutionary Psychology, Then and Now; John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and Masculinity as a Habit of Mind; "The Caveman within Us" and the Masculinist Culture of Mimicry; 1 Rugged Individualism; Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis: Origins, Composition, and Meanings; Turner's Influence on the Social Psychology of the City; Radical Individualism: Masculinist Art, Angst, and Alienation in the City; Dudism, Cowgirl Feminism, and the Search for Authenticity in the "Old West"; 2 Brute FictionsThe American Literary Genre of Hunting and KillingReading for Plot: Call of the Wild, The Virginian, and the New Male Readership; Irony, Atavism, and Other Variations on the De-Evolutionary Theme; 3 College Football; Thorstein Veblen and the Rise of "Exotic Ferocity" in American College Football; Victor Turner, Stanford Football, and Hypermasculine Liminal Subjects; Clifford Geertz at the Big Game: "Thick Description" of Football as the Cultural Equivalent of War; 4 War in the Head; Civil War Memory, Blood Sacrifice, and Modern American Fighting SpiritOf Rough Riders, Blood Brothers, and Roosevelt the BerserkerWar as Sport for Doughboys, Golden Boys, and Slackers; Postscript: Marine Corps Spirit and the U.S. Warrior Class, 1941-2003; 5 Laws of Sexual Selection; Race, Lynch Law, and the Manly Provocation; Marriage, Cultural Defense in The People v. Chen, and the Heat-of-Passion Defense in Texas; Compulsory Heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach Fable, and Sexual Dimorphism Unbound; Epilogue. Irony, Instinct, and War; Irony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and Masculinity as a "Parodic Tableau Vivant"Instinct, Deep Masculinity, and the Decline of MalesThe Iraq War, Hypermasculinity, and the Metaphor of Disease; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; IllustrationsGender relations in the American experience.Sex roleUnited StatesHistoryMasculinityUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.Sex roleHistory.MasculinityHistory.305.31Pettegrew John1959-862469MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454466903321Brutes in suits1951918UNINA