ISBN:
0816673020
,
0816673039
,
9780816673025
,
9780816673032
Language:
English
Pages:
354 S.
,
Ill.
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1830-1934
;
Rassismus
;
Männlichkeit
;
Sexismus
;
Soziobiologie
;
USA
Note:
"From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows where they got their start. Melissa N. Stein analyzes how race became the purview of science in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America and how it was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political resonances.
