ISBN:
9781435692664
,
1435692667
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 409 pages)
,
illustrations.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Gender relations in the American experience
Parallel Title:
Print version Brutes in suits
DDC:
305.31
Keywords:
Sex role History
;
United States
;
Masculinity History
;
United States
;
United States
;
USA
;
Masculinity History
;
Sex role History
;
Sex role History
;
Masculinity History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gender Studies
;
Masculinity
;
Sex role
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Mansrollen ; historia ; Förenta staterna
;
Mann
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
United States
;
USA
;
Electronic book
;
Electronic books History
;
USA
;
Mann
;
Geschlechterrolle
;
Geschichte 1890-1920
Abstract:
"In Brutes in Suits, John Pettegrew examines theoretical writings and cultural traditions in the United States to find that, Darwinian arguments to the contrary, masculine aggression can be interpreted as a modern strategy for taking power. Drawing ideas from varied and at times seemingly contradictory sources, Pettegrew argues that traditionally held beliefs about masculinity developed largely through language and cultural habit - and that these same tools can be employed to break through the myth that brutishness is an inherently male trait." "A major re-synthesis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manhood, Brutes in Suits develops ambitious lines of research into the social science of sexual difference and professional history's celebration of rugged individualism; the hunting-and-killing genre of popular men's literature; that master text of hypermasculinity: college football; military culture, war making, and finding pleasure in killing; and patriarchy, sexual jealousy, and the law. This assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians."--Jacket
Abstract:
3.College football --Thorstein Veblen and the rise of "exotic ferocity" in American college football --Victor Turner, Standford football, and hypermasculine liminal subjects --Clifford Geertz at the big game : "Thick description of football as the cultural equivalent of war --4.War in the head --Civil war memory, blood sacrifice, and modern American fighting spirit --Of Rough Riders, blood brothers, and Roosevelt the Berserker --War as sport for Doughboys, golden boys, and slackers --Postscript : Marine Corps spirit and the U.S. warrior class, 1941-2003 --5.Laws of sexual selection --Race, lynch law, and the manly provocation --Marriage, cultural defense in The People v. Chen, and the heart-of-passion defense in Texas --Compulsory heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach fable, and sexual dimorphism unbound --Epilogue : Irony, instinct, and war --Irony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and masculinity as a "parodic tableau vivant" --Instinct, deep masculinity, and the decline of males --The Iraq War, hypermasculinity, and the metaphor of disease --Notes --Essay on sources --Index.
Abstract:
Preface --Introduction : The de-evolutionary turn in U.S. masculinity --Darwin and evolutionary psychology, then and now --John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and masculinity as a habit of mind --"Thecaveman within us" and the masculinist culture of mimicry --1.Rugged individualism --Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis : origins, composition, and meanings --Turner's influence on the social psychology of the city --Radical individualism : masculinist art, angst, and alienation in the city --Dudism, cowgirl feminism, and the search for authenticity in the "Old West" --2.Brute fictions --The American literary genre of hunting and killing --Reading for plot : Call of the Wild, the Virginian, and the new male readership --Irony, atavism, and other variations on the de-evolutionary theme.
Description / Table of Contents:
3.College footballThorstein Veblen and the rise of "exotic ferocity" in American college footballVictor Turner, Standford football, and hypermasculine liminal subjectsClifford Geertz at the big game : "Thick description of football as the cultural equivalent of war4.War in the headCivil war memory, blood sacrifice, and modern American fighting spiritOf Rough Riders, blood brothers, and Roosevelt the BerserkerWar as sport for Doughboys, golden boys, and slackersPostscript : Marine Corps spirit and the U.S. warrior class, 1941-20035.Laws of sexual selectionRace, lynch law, and the manly provocationMarriage, cultural defense in The People v. Chen, and the heart-of-passion defense in TexasCompulsory heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach fable, and sexual dimorphism unboundEpilogue : Irony, instinct, and warIrony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and masculinity as a "parodic tableau vivant"Instinct, deep masculinity, and the decline of malesThe Iraq War, hypermasculinity, and the metaphor of diseaseNotesEssay on sourcesIndex.
Description / Table of Contents:
PrefaceIntroduction : The de-evolutionary turn in U.S. masculinityDarwin and evolutionary psychology, then and nowJohn Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and masculinity as a habit of mind"Thecaveman within us" and the masculinist culture of mimicry1.Rugged individualismFrederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis : origins, composition, and meaningsTurner's influence on the social psychology of the cityRadical individualism : masculinist art, angst, and alienation in the cityDudism, cowgirl feminism, and the search for authenticity in the "Old West"2.Brute fictionsThe American literary genre of hunting and killingReading for plot : Call of the Wild, the Virginian, and the new male readershipIrony, atavism, and other variations on the de-evolutionary theme.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-398) and index. - Description based on print version record
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