LEADER 03763nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910782746203321 005 20230721004610.0 010 $a0-8018-9172-8 010 $a1-4356-9266-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000705375 035 $a(EBL)3318356 035 $a(OCoLC)923192807 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000115339 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11132047 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115339 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10005040 035 $a(PQKB)11334064 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318356 035 $a(OCoLC)652351779 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2594 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318356 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10256358 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000705375 100 $a20060808d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBrutes in suits$b[electronic resource] $emale sensibility in America, 1890-1920 /$fJohn Pettegrew 210 $aBaltimore $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (424 p.) 225 1 $aGender relations in the American experience 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8018-8603-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-398) and index. 327 $aContents; 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 Fictions 327 $aThe 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 Spirit 327 $aOf 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" 327 $aInstinct, Deep Masculinity, and the Decline of MalesThe Iraq War, Hypermasculinity, and the Metaphor of Disease; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Illustrations 410 0$aGender relations in the American experience. 606 $aSex role$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aMasculinity$zUnited States$xHistory 615 0$aSex role$xHistory. 615 0$aMasculinity$xHistory. 676 $a305.31 700 $aPettegrew$b John$f1959-$01498285 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782746203321 996 $aBrutes in suits$93723799 997 $aUNINA