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Author Nelson, Dana D., author.

Title National manhood : capitalist citizenship and the imagined fraternity of white men / Dana D. Nelson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 344 pages)
Series New Americanists
New Americanists.
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 Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and political articulation of a civic identity centered around the white male and points to a cultural moment in which the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
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Subject Men, White -- United States -- Psychology
Men, White -- United States -- Attitudes
Middle class men -- United States -- Psychology
Middle class men -- United States -- Attitudes
Men -- United States -- Identity
Masculinity -- United States
Racism -- United States
Sexism -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Men's Studies.
Masculinity
Men -- Identity
Middle class men -- Psychology
Racism
Sexism
Männlichkeit
Nationalismus
Nationalbewusstsein
Blanken.
Burgerschap.
United States
USA
Weiße.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 98014396
ISBN 9780822382140
0822382148
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9781282904439
9786612904431
6612904437
0822321300
9780822321309