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 1823
... West” 2 Brute Fictions The American Literary Genre of Hunting and Killing Reading for Plot: Call of the Wild, The Virginian, and the New Male Readership Irony, Atavism, and Other Variations on the De-Evolutionary Theme 3 College ...
... West” 2 Brute Fictions The American Literary Genre of Hunting and Killing Reading for Plot: Call of the Wild, The Virginian, and the New Male Readership Irony, Atavism, and Other Variations on the De-Evolutionary Theme 3 College ...
Halaman 1861
... masculine primitivism, as seen in such broad-based popular cultural developments as the commercial promotion of the Old West, including the dude ranch. Rugged individualism, in short, entailed an Rugged Individualism.
... masculine primitivism, as seen in such broad-based popular cultural developments as the commercial promotion of the Old West, including the dude ranch. Rugged individualism, in short, entailed an Rugged Individualism.
Halaman 1863
... West ( 1885-94 ) and his man- making magazine articles on his own Dakota hunting and ranching experiences put forward a historical vision of the frontier as a source of rough and rugged American character and manhood . With his ...
... West ( 1885-94 ) and his man- making magazine articles on his own Dakota hunting and ranching experiences put forward a historical vision of the frontier as a source of rough and rugged American character and manhood . With his ...
Halaman 1864
... west frame of reference, from European civilization to American savagery, a perspective that marginalized Indian subject positions. Racialist, nation-building violence, for Turner, resulted naturally from the westward course of European ...
... west frame of reference, from European civilization to American savagery, a perspective that marginalized Indian subject positions. Racialist, nation-building violence, for Turner, resulted naturally from the westward course of European ...
Halaman 1865
... West gave rise to solitary, atomistic existence permeates the whole thesis but is most clearly stated in the essay's last, climactic section. “To the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics,” Turner wrote: That ...
... West gave rise to solitary, atomistic existence permeates the whole thesis but is most clearly stated in the essay's last, climactic section. “To the frontier the American intellect owes its striking characteristics,” Turner wrote: That ...
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