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 1832
... history of American manhood includes countless examples of exaggerating one's strength and ferocity through comparisons to wildlife. Backcountry brawlers in the antebellum South, for instance, liked to crow about their beastly.
... history of American manhood includes countless examples of exaggerating one's strength and ferocity through comparisons to wildlife. Backcountry brawlers in the antebellum South, for instance, liked to crow about their beastly.
Halaman 1833
Male Sensibility in America, 1890–1920 John Pettegrew. antebellum South, for instance, liked to crow about their beastly fighting prowess, as in the celebrated Mike Fink's tall talk: “I'm half wild horse and half-cock-eyed alligator.” 3 ...
Male Sensibility in America, 1890–1920 John Pettegrew. antebellum South, for instance, liked to crow about their beastly fighting prowess, as in the celebrated Mike Fink's tall talk: “I'm half wild horse and half-cock-eyed alligator.” 3 ...
Halaman 1842
... instance , leading evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss writes that " Simple - minded views of same - sex conspiracies by one sex defy evolutionary logic . ' Inattention to the strategies and results of male power taking is ...
... instance , leading evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss writes that " Simple - minded views of same - sex conspiracies by one sex defy evolutionary logic . ' Inattention to the strategies and results of male power taking is ...
Halaman 1850
... instance; holding property interests in women's sexuality; and pride in country. Dewey pictured habits as mental “channels” of energy. “Every habit creates an unconscious expectation,” Dewey wrote, a disposition or, really, a ...
... instance; holding property interests in women's sexuality; and pride in country. Dewey pictured habits as mental “channels” of energy. “Every habit creates an unconscious expectation,” Dewey wrote, a disposition or, really, a ...
Halaman 1865
... instance—and more as a multivalent figure bridging nineteenth- and twentieth-century naturalist thought, romantic literature and social science, culture and biology, and academic scholarship and popular understandings of the past. With ...
... instance—and more as a multivalent figure bridging nineteenth- and twentieth-century naturalist thought, romantic literature and social science, culture and biology, and academic scholarship and popular understandings of the past. With ...
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Laws of Sexual Selection | |
Epilogue Irony Instinct and | |
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Illustrations appear on pages 180196 | |
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