03923nam 2200637 a 450 991080781990332120240416173755.00-8018-9172-81-4356-9266-7(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 male sensibility in America, 1890-1920 /John Pettegrew1st ed.Baltimore 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; IllustrationsThis timely assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians for years to come.Gender relations in the American experience.Sex roleUnited StatesHistoryMasculinityUnited StatesHistorySex roleHistory.MasculinityHistory.305.31Pettegrew John1959-1605289MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807819903321Brutes in suits4050089UNINA