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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... historians. Several lunches with George Mosse sharpened my understanding of manhood in relationship to nationalism, war, and sexuality. And one of the real high points of my graduate training was to become friends with Merle Curti. His ...
... historians. Several lunches with George Mosse sharpened my understanding of manhood in relationship to nationalism, war, and sexuality. And one of the real high points of my graduate training was to become friends with Merle Curti. His ...
Halaman 1827
... historian, editor, and adviser. His teaching and scholarship have been absolutely exemplary, and, since leaving Madison, I have only come to appreciate more his writing, integrity, and friendship. In beginning the long transition from ...
... historian, editor, and adviser. His teaching and scholarship have been absolutely exemplary, and, since leaving Madison, I have only come to appreciate more his writing, integrity, and friendship. In beginning the long transition from ...
Halaman 1835
... historians to consider how patterns of behavioral differences between the sexes may have been oriented in the ... historian David Courtwright suggest we understand human history by picturing a three - handed clock . The sweep hand ...
... historians to consider how patterns of behavioral differences between the sexes may have been oriented in the ... historian David Courtwright suggest we understand human history by picturing a three - handed clock . The sweep hand ...
Halaman 1856
... historian Roderick Nash has written : " quite a few Americans in 1913 apparently wanted to believe in the authenticity of the ' Nature Man . Knowles had mimicked savagery's imagined " tooth - and - claw " dictate - Maine fined him $ 205 ...
... historian Roderick Nash has written : " quite a few Americans in 1913 apparently wanted to believe in the authenticity of the ' Nature Man . Knowles had mimicked savagery's imagined " tooth - and - claw " dictate - Maine fined him $ 205 ...
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... historian Linda Kerber has explained : they " have made the implicit assumption that the ' individual ' was male . Even when a vaguely generic language was adopted to make it seem that women were included , a careful reading reveals ...
... historian Linda Kerber has explained : they " have made the implicit assumption that the ' individual ' was male . Even when a vaguely generic language was adopted to make it seem that women were included , a careful reading reveals ...
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