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Political manhood : red bloods, mollycoddles, and the politics of progressive era reform / / Kevin P. Murphy



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Autore: Murphy Kevin P. <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Political manhood : red bloods, mollycoddles, and the politics of progressive era reform / / Kevin P. Murphy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Chichester, : Columbia University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
Disciplina: 306.76/62097309034
306.7662097309034
Soggetto topico: Masculinity - United States - History
Male homosexuality - United States - History
Sex - United States - History
Social reformers - Sexual behavior - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 1865-1933
United States History 1865-1921
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the "Third Sex" -- 2. The Tammany Within: Good Government Reform and Political Manhood -- 3. White Army in the White City: Civic Militarism, Urban Space, and the Urban Populace -- 4. Socrates in the Slums: "Social Brotherhood" and Settlement House Reform -- 5. Daddy George and Tom Brown: Sexual Scandal, Political Manhood, and Self- Government Reform -- 6. The Problem of the Impracticables: Sentimentality, Idealism, and Homosexuality -- Epilogue: Red Bloods and Mollycoddles in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," and cautioned that "the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community." A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was "all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories. Because of its similarity to the emergent "homosexual" type, the mollycoddle became a powerful rhetorical figure, often used to marginalize and stigmatize certain political actors. Issues of masculinity not only penetrated the realm of the elite, however. Murphy's history follows the redefinition of manhood across a variety of classes, especially in the work of late nineteenth-century reformers, who trumpeted the virility of the laboring classes. By highlighting this cross-class appropriation, Murphy challenges the oppositional model commonly used to characterize the relationship between political "machines" and social and municipal reformers at the turn of the twentieth century. He also revolutionizes our understanding of the gendered and sexual meanings attached to political and ideological positions of the Progressive Era.
Titolo autorizzato: Political manhood  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-89768-3
9786612897689
0-231-50350-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807419903321
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