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9780814763520
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0814763529
Content:
What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms of manhood-exemplified by "the Family Man," for instance--were deployed as a means of stigmatizing unworthy men, rewarding responsible men with citizenship, and empowering exceptional men with positions of leadership and authority, while excluding women from public life. Kann suggests that
Content:
What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms of manhood-exemplified by "the Family Man," for instance--were deployed as a means of stigmatizing unworthy men, rewarding responsible men with citizenship, and empowering exceptional men with positions of leadership and authority, while excluding women from public life. Kann suggests that
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780814747131
Additional Edition:
Kann, Mark E., 1947 - A republic of men New York, NY [u.a.] : New York University Press, 1998 ISBN 0814747132
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0814747140
Additional Edition:
Print version Kann, Mark E A Republic of Men : The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics New York : NYU Press, ©1998 ISBN 9780814747131
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English
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