Political manhood
Subtitle: red bloods, mollycoddles, & the politics of progressive era reform
By: Kevin P. Murphy.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780231129961; 9780231503501
Subjects: Masculinity -- United States -- History; Male homosexuality -- United States -- History; Sex -- United States -- History; Social reformers -- United States -- Sexual behavior; United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933; United States -- History -- 1865-1921
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Of mugwumps and mollycoddles : patronage and the political discourse of the "third sex"; title: The Tammany within : good government reform and political manhood; title: White army in the white city : civic militarism, urban space, and the urban populace; title: Socrates in the slums : "social brotherhood" and settlement house reform; title: Daddy George and Tom Brown : sexual scandal, political manhood, and self-government reform; title: The problem of the impracticables : sentimentality, idealism, and homosexuality; title: Epilogue : red bloods and mollycoddles in the twentieth century and beyond.