Manliness & civilization : a cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917 / / Gail Bederman
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| Autore: |
Bederman Gail
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| Titolo: |
Manliness & civilization : a cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917 / / Gail Bederman
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| Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.0973 |
| 305.3/0973 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Sex role - United States - History |
| Masculinity - United States - History | |
| White supremacy movements - United States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| United States Civilization | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | gender, race, racism, sexism, 1800s, 1900s, contemporary, modern, cultural, social studies, boxing, anecdote, true story, jim jeffries, jack johnson, historical, riots, manhood, manliness, toxic masculinity, racial dominance, oppressor, oppressed groups, black experience, culture, victorian, men, aggressive, sexual, virility, primitive, civilized, theodore roosevelt, ida b wells, charlotte perkins gilman, g stanley hall, relationships |
| Persona (resp. second.): | StimpsonCatharine R. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Remaking Manhood through Race arid ""Civilization""; 2. ""The White Man's Civilization on Trial"": Ida B. Wells, Representations of Lynching, and Northern Middle-Class Manhood; 3. ""Teaching Our Sons to Do What We Have Been Teaching the Savages to Avoid"": G. Stanley Hall, Racial Recapitulation, and the Neurasthenic Paradox; 4. ""Not to Sex--But to Race!"" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Civilized Anglo-Saxon Womanhood, and the Return of the Primitive Rapist; 5. Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation, and ""Civilization"" |
| Conclusion. Tarzan and AfterNotes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it ""for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is better than a negro."" Jeffries, though, was trounced. Whites everywhere rioted. The furor, Gail Bederman demonstrates, was part of two fundamental and volatile national obsessions: manhood and racial dominance. In turn-of-the-century America, cultural ideals of manhood changed profoundly, as Victorian notions of self-restrained, |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Manliness and civilization |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Manliness & civilization |
| ISBN: | 0-226-04149-2 |
| 1-282-50414-2 | |
| 9786612504143 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996248065603316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Women in culture and society.