Manliness & Civilization – A Cultural History of Gender & Race in the United States 1880–1917: Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (Women in Culture and Society Series) - Hardcover

Bederman, G

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226041387 ISBN 13: 9780226041384

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1995

Synopsis

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 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, G. Stanley Hall, Ida B. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman - she illuminates the ideological, cultural and social interests these ideals came to serve.

About this title

About the Author:

Gail Bederman is associate professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. She is currently writing a history of early public advocacy of contraception in Great Britain and the United States, and especially the activities of seven individuals: William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, T.R. Malthus, Francis Place, Richard Carlile, Robert Dale Owen, and Frances Wright.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0226041387
• ISBN 13: 9780226041384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304