Manliness & civilization : a cultural history of gender and race in the United States, 1880-1917 / Gail Bederman.

Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, 1995.

xiii, 307 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographic references (p. 289-296) and index

Remaking manhood through race and "civilization" -- "The White man's civilization on trial": Ida B. Wells, representations of lynching, and northern middle-class manhood -- "Teaching our sons to do what we have been teaching the savages to avoid": G. Stanley Hall, racial recapitulation, and the neurasthenic paradox -- "Not to sex-but to race!" Charlotte Perkins Gilman, civilized Anglo-Saxon womanhood, and the return of the primitive rapist -- Theodore Roosevelt: manhood, nation, and "civilization" -- Tarzan and after.

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