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Brutes in suits : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920

Author

Pettegrew, John, 1959-

Title

Brutes in suits : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920 / John Pettegrew.

Format

Book

Published

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.

Description

xi, 409 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

URL

<Table of contents only> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006025984.html <Contributor biographical information> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006025984-b.html <Publisher description> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0703/2006025984-d.html

Series

Gender relations in the American experience

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-398) and index.

Contents

• 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
• "The caveman 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.

• 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.

Kinsey subjects

Gender role identification--Male. Men--United States. Changing role of men--United States.

ISBN

9780801886034 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0801886031 (hardcover : alk. paper)