Manliness and Civilization - A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917

List of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsCh. 1: Remaking Manhood through Race and "Civilization"Ch. 2: "The White Man's Civilization on Trial": Ida B. Wells, Representations of Lynching, and Northern Middle-Class ManhoodCh. 3: "Teaching Our Sons to Do What We Have Been Teaching the Savages to Avoid": G. Stanley Hall, Racial Recapitulation, and the Neurasthenic ParadoxCh. 4: "Not to Sex - But to Race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Civilized Anglo-Saxon Womanhood, and the Return of the Primitive RapistCh. 5: Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation, and "Civilization"Conclusion: Tarzan and AfterNotesBibliographyIndex

Summary

Gail Bederman investigates the connection between powerful manhood and racial dominance as it was debated, promoted and resisted during the decades around the turn of this century.

Product details

• Authors: Gail Bederman, Bederman Gail
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1996
• EAN: 9780226041391
• ISBN: 978-0-226-04139-1
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 16 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 510 g
• Series: Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society Series; Women in Culture & Society (Pa; Women in Culture and Society; Women in Culture & Society Series WCS (CHUP); Women in Culture & Society Series WCS
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social issues & processes, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies, gender groups, History of the Americas, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social and ethical issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies