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 1825
... violence. But, as I describe and criticize in the pages that follow, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American thought predominantly represented brutish masculinity as an instinct—an innate, biologically transferred trait of ...
... violence. But, as I describe and criticize in the pages that follow, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American thought predominantly represented brutish masculinity as an instinct—an innate, biologically transferred trait of ...
Halaman 1832
... violence. While renewing itself as a dominant masculine standard, brutishness hardly achieved universal status among post-Civil War U.S. men. Though a prevalent state of mind, devolution did not engage even the most aggressive of men ...
... violence. While renewing itself as a dominant masculine standard, brutishness hardly achieved universal status among post-Civil War U.S. men. Though a prevalent state of mind, devolution did not engage even the most aggressive of men ...
Halaman 1843
... violence, the emergence of kinship structures promoting the exchange of women among men, and the invention of private property.26 The concept of patriarchy points us to the law, the state, the military, and marriage and family, among ...
... violence, the emergence of kinship structures promoting the exchange of women among men, and the invention of private property.26 The concept of patriarchy points us to the law, the state, the military, and marriage and family, among ...
Halaman 1852
... violence " of masculine domination- " a gentle violence , imperceptible and invisible even to its victims , exerted for the most part through the purely symbolic channels of communication and cognition " -routinely inverts the cause and ...
... violence " of masculine domination- " a gentle violence , imperceptible and invisible even to its victims , exerted for the most part through the purely symbolic channels of communication and cognition " -routinely inverts the cause and ...
Halaman 1864
... violence, for Turner, resulted naturally from the westward course of European American expansion. He neither ... violent capacity. Turner's work penetrated modern U.S. middle-class consciousness. He popularized the frontier thesis ...
... violence, for Turner, resulted naturally from the westward course of European American expansion. He neither ... violent capacity. Turner's work penetrated modern U.S. middle-class consciousness. He popularized the frontier thesis ...
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Epilogue Irony Instinct and | |
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Essay on Sources | |
Illustrations appear on pages 180196 | |
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