{"product_id":"measuring-manhood-9780816673032","title":"Measuring Manhood","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeasuring Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e is the book we’ve been hoping for. For two generations, historians have talked about the ways that race, class, and gender are interlocking and co-operational. Carefully and thoughtfully, Melissa N. Stein gathers these plots and lays out a story of intersecting interests and ideologies: a story of knowledge gone mad that is deeply resonant in our time.\"—Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeasuring Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e is well-written and complexly argued. It will be a useful text for courses in the history of medicine, gender, and sexuality studies; American history and science and technology studies. It provides an example of how to do inter-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esectional analysis.\"—\u003ci\u003eMen \u0026amp; Masculinities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterful work on the way racial theory, gender and science came together in the long nineteenth century.\"—\u003ci\u003eSocial History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A noble effort to reveal the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in the history of American science.\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A well-written narrative, \u003ci\u003eMeasuring Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome contribution to the histories of science and medicine, race, and sex and sexuality as well to the interdisciplinary fields of American studies and gender studies.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Anyone interested in how American science used studies of masculinity to aggravate social fears about race would do well to start with \u003ci\u003eMeasuring Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of the History of Sexuality\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Melissa Stein offers a meticulously researched history of biological essentialism. Her explicitly intersectional approach is a timely contribution to our understanding of how race and gender \u003ci\u003etogether\u003c\/i\u003e informed the emerging sciences of ethnology, biology, and medicine from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century.\"—\u003ci\u003eAfrican American Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeasuring Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e is a sobering reflection on the fallacies of “objective” research and the role science has played in shaping social and political life. In this present era of advanced genetic research and considerable sociopolitical turmoil, this is a cautionary tale.\"—\u003ci\u003eNew Genetics and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMeasuring Manhood\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent study of the development of the science of masculinity and its roots in race science in the United States during the long nineteenth century.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Making Race, Marking Difference\u003cbr\u003e1. \"Races of Men”: Ethnology in Antebellum America\u003cbr\u003e2. An “Equal Beard” for “Equal Voting”: Gender and Citizenship in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Redemption\u003cbr\u003e3. Inverts, Perverts, and Primitives: Racial Thought and the American School of Sexology\u003cbr\u003e4. Unsexing the Race: Lynching, Castration, and Racial Science\u003cbr\u003e5. Walter White, Scientific Racism, and the NAACP Antilynching Campaign\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAppendix. Charting Racial Science: Data and Methodology\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405965893975,"sku":"9780816673032","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816673032.jpg?v=1730494071","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/measuring-manhood-9780816673032","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}