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Book SynopsisIn a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." This work reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories.
Trade ReviewIn shifting the examination of Progressive reform back from the terrain of voting and office-holding to that of gender and sexuality, Political Manhood makes a major contribution to our understanding of American political history. -- Ruth Crocker Historian An engaging historical investigation into the negative application of homophobic rhetoric against those deemed political enemies... A must read. -- Jay Hatheway Journal of American History To understand fully the political shifts in the early twentieth century, or to flesh our gender and sexual identity in this time, this book will serve all of these purposes, and more. Men & Masculinities This clearly written and cleanly argued gem of a gendered political history examines the 'historical connections between categories of gender and sexuality and American political culture' -- Thomas A. Foster H-Histsex
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the "Third Sex" 2. The Tammany Within: Good Government Reform and Political Manhood 3. White Army in the White City: Civic Militarism, Urban Space, and the Urban Populace 4. Socrates in the Slums: "Social Brotherhood" and Settlement House Reform 5. Daddy George and Tom Brown: Sexual Scandal, Political Manhood, and Self-Government Reform 6. The Problem of the Impracticables: Sentimentality, Idealism, and Homosexuality Epilogue: Red Bloods and Mollycoddles in the Twentieth Century and Beyond Notes Bibliography Index
