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 1826
... training was to become friends with Merle Curti. His reading of my Turner material and other work, our discussions of pragmatism (which included his personal reminiscences of Dewey), and his constantly probing questions in.
... training was to become friends with Merle Curti. His reading of my Turner material and other work, our discussions of pragmatism (which included his personal reminiscences of Dewey), and his constantly probing questions in.
Halaman 1827
... reading of my work by Elliott Gorn. A summer at Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender provided a wonderful opportunity for reopening and recalibrating my thoughts on manhood around feminist history and theory ...
... reading of my work by Elliott Gorn. A summer at Stanford University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender provided a wonderful opportunity for reopening and recalibrating my thoughts on manhood around feminist history and theory ...
Halaman 1828
... reading of the first chapter added almost another year to my work but made the final draft, I think, that much better. And while Seth Moglen charitably abstained from reading one word of this study, our many long discussions about ...
... reading of the first chapter added almost another year to my work but made the final draft, I think, that much better. And while Seth Moglen charitably abstained from reading one word of this study, our many long discussions about ...
Halaman 1831
... reading of animal character . As can be seen in McVeigh's mass - murderous example , the interpretive loop between animal and human male psychology culminates in violence , or at least a predisposition toward brutality . And , yet , de ...
... reading of animal character . As can be seen in McVeigh's mass - murderous example , the interpretive loop between animal and human male psychology culminates in violence , or at least a predisposition toward brutality . And , yet , de ...
Halaman 1847
... readers to the productive values that he understood to be more consistent with basic human impulses . John Dewey's book Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ) may mark the most thoroughgoing critique of the substantive and causal character ...
... readers to the productive values that he understood to be more consistent with basic human impulses . John Dewey's book Human Nature and Conduct ( 1922 ) may mark the most thoroughgoing critique of the substantive and causal character ...
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