Title: Fighting for American manhood
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Psychology, Social aspects, Philippines Philippine American War, 1899-1902, Social aspects of Spanish-American War, 1898, Spanish-American War, 1898, Political aspects of Masculinity, Politicians, Sex role, Masculinity, Political aspects of Sex role, Political aspects, History, Philippines, history, philippine american war, 1899-1902, Politicians, united states, Imperialism, Philippines, history, Machismo, Causes, Military policy, Foreign relations, Territories and possessions, Colonial question
Places: Philippines, United States
Time periods: 19th century, Philippine American War, 1899-1902
LC classification: E721 .H69 1998