Manliness & civilization
Subtitle: a cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917
By: Gail Bederman.
Series: Women in culture and society
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780226041384
Subjects: Sex role -- United States -- History; Masculinity -- United States -- History; White supremacy movements -- United States -- History; United States -- Race relations; United States -- Civilization
Other titles: Manliness and civilization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index.
Table of contents: title: Remaking manhood through race and "civilization"; title: "The White man's civilization on trial": Ida B. Wells, representations of lynching, and northern middle-class manhood; title: "Teaching our sons to do what we have been teaching the savages to avoid": G. Stanley Hall, racial recapitulation, and the neurasthenic paradox; title: "Not to sex-but to race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, civilized Anglo-Saxon womanhood, and the return of the primitive rapist; title: Theodore Roosevelt: manhood, nation, and "civilization"; title: Tarzan and after.