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

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Manliness and Civilization

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

By: Gail Bederman

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Paperback | 1 November 1996 | Edition Number 1

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322 Pages

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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 and Whites everywhere rioted. The furor, the author of this work seeks to demonstrate, 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, moral manliness were challenged by ideals of an aggressive, overtly sexualized masculinity. Gail Bederman traces this shift in values and shows how it brought together two seemingly contradictory ideals: the unfettered virility of racially "primitive" men and the refined superiority of "civilized" white men. Focusing on the lives and works of four very different Americans - Theodore Roosevelt, educator G. Stanley Hall, Ida B. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman - she explores the ideological, cultural, and social interests these ideals came to serve.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Men and Boys History Regional & National History History of the Americas Social Issues & Processes Ethnic Studies Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies Specific Events & Topics in History

Social & Cultural History Earliest Times to Present Day Modern History from 1700 to 1900 Miscellaneous Items

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Remaking Manhood through Race and "Civilization"
"The White Man's Civilization on Trial"
Representations of Lynching, and Northern Middle-Class Manhood
"Teaching Our Sons to Do What We Have Been Teaching the Savages to Avoid"
Racial Recapitulation, and the Neurasthenic Paradox
"Not to Sex - But to Race!"
Civilized Anglo-Saxon Womanhood, and the Return of the Primitive Rapist
Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation, and "Civilization" Conclusion: Tarzan and After
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Manliness and Civilization

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

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