Brutes in suits : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920 / John Pettegrew.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettegrew, John, 1959-

Series:

Gender relations in the American experience.

Gender relations in the American experience

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--United States--History.

Sex role.

Masculinity--United States--History.

Masculinity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This timely assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians for years to come.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction. The De-Evolutionary Turn in U.S. Masculinity; Darwin and Evolutionary Psychology, Then and Now; John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and Masculinity as a Habit of Mind; "The Caveman within Us" and the Masculinist Culture of Mimicry; 1 Rugged Individualism; Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis: Origins, Composition, and Meanings; Turner's Influence on the Social Psychology of the City; Radical Individualism: Masculinist Art, Angst, and Alienation in the City; Dudism, Cowgirl Feminism, and the Search for Authenticity in the "Old West"; 2 Brute Fictions

The American Literary Genre of Hunting and KillingReading 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 Football; Thorstein Veblen and the Rise of "Exotic Ferocity" in American College Football; Victor Turner, Stanford Football, and Hypermasculine Liminal Subjects; Clifford Geertz at the Big Game: "Thick Description" of Football as the Cultural Equivalent of War; 4 War in the Head; Civil War Memory, Blood Sacrifice, and Modern American Fighting Spirit

Of Rough Riders, Blood Brothers, and Roosevelt the BerserkerWar as Sport for Doughboys, Golden Boys, and Slackers; Postscript: Marine Corps Spirit and the U.S. Warrior Class, 1941-2003; 5 Laws of Sexual Selection; Race, Lynch Law, and the Manly Provocation; Marriage, Cultural Defense in The People v. Chen, and the Heat-of-Passion Defense in Texas; Compulsory Heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach Fable, and Sexual Dimorphism Unbound; Epilogue. Irony, Instinct, and War; Irony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and Masculinity as a "Parodic Tableau Vivant"

Instinct, Deep Masculinity, and the Decline of MalesThe Iraq War, Hypermasculinity, and the Metaphor of Disease; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Illustrations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-398) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-9172-8

1-4356-9266-7

OCLC:

923192807