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Gail Bederman investigates the connection between powerful manhood and racial dominance as it was debated, promoted and resisted during the decades around the turn of this century.

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Remaking Manhood through Race and "Civilization" Ch. 2: "The White Man's Civilization on Trial": Ida B. Wells, Representations of Lynching, and Northern Middle-Class Manhood Ch. 3: "Teaching Our Sons to Do What We Have Been Teaching the Savages to Avoid": G. Stanley Hall, Racial Recapitulation, and the Neurasthenic Paradox Ch. 4: "Not to Sex - But to Race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Civilized Anglo-Saxon Womanhood, and the Return of the Primitive Rapist Ch. 5: Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation, and "Civilization" Conclusion: Tarzan and After Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/11/1996
      ISBN13: 9780226041391, 978-0226041391
      ISBN10: 0226041395
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Gail Bederman investigates the connection between powerful manhood and racial dominance as it was debated, promoted and resisted during the decades around the turn of this century.

      Table of Contents
      List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgments Ch. 1: Remaking Manhood through Race and "Civilization" Ch. 2: "The White Man's Civilization on Trial": Ida B. Wells, Representations of Lynching, and Northern Middle-Class Manhood Ch. 3: "Teaching Our Sons to Do What We Have Been Teaching the Savages to Avoid": G. Stanley Hall, Racial Recapitulation, and the Neurasthenic Paradox Ch. 4: "Not to Sex - But to Race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Civilized Anglo-Saxon Womanhood, and the Return of the Primitive Rapist Ch. 5: Theodore Roosevelt: Manhood, Nation, and "Civilization" Conclusion: Tarzan and After Notes Bibliography Index

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