Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages) |
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New Americanists |
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New Americanists.
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Contents |
Purity control: consolidating national manhood in the early republic -- "That's not my wife, that's an Indian squaw": inindianation and national manhood -- "Our castle still remains unshaken": professional manhood, science, whiteness -- Gynecological manhood: the worries of whiteness and the disorders of women -- The melancholy of white manhood, or, democracy's privileged spot -- Afterword: The President in 2045, or, managed democracy |
Summary |
National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and political articulation of a civic identity centered around the white male and points to a cultural moment in which the theoretical consolidation of white manhood worked to ground, and perhaps even found, the nation. Using political, scientific, medical, personal, and literary texts ranging f |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-333) and index |
Notes |
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Weise, ... gnd |
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Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd |
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Men, White -- United States -- Psychology
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Men, White -- United States -- Attitudes
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Middle class men -- United States -- Psychology
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Middle class men -- United States -- Attitudes
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Men -- United States -- Identity
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Masculinity -- United States
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Racism -- United States
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Sexism -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies.
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Masculinity
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Men -- Identity
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Middle class men -- Psychology
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Racism
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Sexism
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Männlichkeit
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Nationalismus
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Blanken.
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Burgerschap.
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United States
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USA
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Weiße.
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
98014396 |
ISBN |
9780822382140 |
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0822382148 |
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1282904434 |
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9781282904439 |
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9786612904431 |
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6612904437 |
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0822321300 |
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9780822321309 |
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