Brutes In Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890–1920Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM, 16 Jul 2007 - 599 halaman “[A] vivid, massively researched history of ‘hyper-masculine’ sensibility . . . An instructive and provocative view of men’s dark side.” —Peter Filene, Men and Masculinities Are men truly predisposed to violence and aggression? Is it the biological fate of males to struggle for domination over women and vie against one another endlessly? These and related queries have long vexed philosophers, social scientists, and other students of human behavior. In Brutes in Suits, historian John Pettegrew examines theoretical writings and cultural traditions in the United States to find that, Darwinian arguments to the contrary, masculine aggression can be interpreted as a modern strategy for taking power. Drawing ideas from varied and at times seemingly contradictory sources, Pettegrew argues that traditionally held beliefs about masculinity developed largely through language and cultural habit—and that these same tools can be employed to break through the myth that brutishness is an inherently male trait. A major re-synthesis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manhood, Brutes in Suits develops ambitious lines of research into the social science of sexual difference and professional history’s celebration of rugged individualism; the hunting-and-killing genre of popular men’s literature; that master text of hypermasculinity: college football; military culture, war making, and finding pleasure in killing; and patriarchy, sexual jealousy, and the law. This timely assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians for years to come. “Pettegrew’s book remains rigorous and passionate in its narration of the historic appeal as well as the immediate dangers of de-evolutionary masculinity.” —American Historical Review |
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Halaman 1860
... Americans looked to athletic and military achievement to prove their manhood and thereby to gain some measure of inclusion in modern American society, even as those institutions segregated blacks from other men and even as African Americans ...
... Americans looked to athletic and military achievement to prove their manhood and thereby to gain some measure of inclusion in modern American society, even as those institutions segregated blacks from other men and even as African Americans ...
Halaman 1864
... American continent in feminine terms, assuming man as sole agent and actor and all but dissolving women as historical subjects. Turner's frontier thesis is deeply ethnocentric. Even as he urged Americans to turn away from Europe in ...
... American continent in feminine terms, assuming man as sole agent and actor and all but dissolving women as historical subjects. Turner's frontier thesis is deeply ethnocentric. Even as he urged Americans to turn away from Europe in ...
Halaman 1865
... American dimension to the conviction that man's natural state is one of solitude, mobility, and autonomy. Far more than Roosevelt, Turner engaged the gendered ideology of American individualism. The idea that the West gave rise to ...
... American dimension to the conviction that man's natural state is one of solitude, mobility, and autonomy. Far more than Roosevelt, Turner engaged the gendered ideology of American individualism. The idea that the West gave rise to ...
Halaman 1868
... American racial violence—in no way originated with Darwin. With roots deep in Western thought, they came together in mid- nineteenth-century racial anthropology and other conservative evolutionary theory to which Darwin and Turner had ...
... American racial violence—in no way originated with Darwin. With roots deep in Western thought, they came together in mid- nineteenth-century racial anthropology and other conservative evolutionary theory to which Darwin and Turner had ...
Halaman 1870
... American through contact with and survival of the savage - read Native American - wilderness : " This perennial rebirth , this fluidity of American life , this expansion westward with its new opportunities , its continuous touch with ...
... American through contact with and survival of the savage - read Native American - wilderness : " This perennial rebirth , this fluidity of American life , this expansion westward with its new opportunities , its continuous touch with ...
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Brute Fictions | |
College Football | |
Laws of Sexual Selection | |
Epilogue Irony Instinct and | |
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Essay on Sources | |
Illustrations appear on pages 180196 | |
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