Fighting for American manhood
Subtitle: how gender politics provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars
By: Kristin L. Hoganson.
Series: Yale historical publications; Yale historical publications (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Social aspects.; Politicians -- United States -- Psychology.; Masculinity -- Political aspects.; Sex role -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Philippines -- History -- Philippine American War, 1899-1902 -- Social aspects.
Description: This book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders' desire to wage these conflicts, and she traces how they manipulated ideas about gender to embroil the nation in war.

She argues that racial beliefs were only part of the cultural framework that undergirded U.S. martial policies at the turn of the century. Gender beliefs, often working in tandem with racial beliefs, affected the rise and fall of the nation's imperialist impulse.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-296) and index.