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Title Political Manhood : Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
Published Columbia University Press 2008

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Contents Cover13; -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the 8220;Third Sex8221; -- 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: 8220;Social Brotherhood8221; 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 theTwentieth Century and Beyond -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary In 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."" Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never ""turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men, "" and cautioned that ""the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community."" A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was ""all inner life, "" whereas his opposite, the ""red blood, "" was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of A
Subject Masculinity -- United States -- History
Male homosexuality -- United States -- History
Sex -- United States -- History
Social reformers -- Sexual behavior -- United States
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Male homosexuality
Masculinity
Politics and government
Sex
Homosexualität
Männerbild
Männlichkeit
Politische Kultur
Mann
SUBJECT United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1933. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140446
United States -- History -- 1865-1921. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140284
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231503501
0231503504