Manliness & civilization : a cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917
At the turn of the 20th century, America's cultural ideals of manhood changed, as Victorian notions of self-restrained, moral manliness were challenged by ideals of an aggressive, overtly sexualized masculinity. Bederman traces this shift in cultural, social and ideological values in this book.
History
1 online resource (xiii, 307 pages) : illustrations
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Remaking manhood through race and "civilization"
"The White man's civilization on trial": Ida B. Wells, representations of lynching, and northern middle-class manhood
"Teaching our sons to do what we have been teaching the savages to avoid": G. Stanley Hall, racial recapitulation, and the neurasthenic paradox
"Not to sex-but to race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, civilized Anglo-Saxon womanhood, and the return of the primitive rapist
Theodore Roosevelt: manhood, nation, and "civilization"
Tarzan and after
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