Format:
Online-Ressource (424 p)
ISBN:
9780801886034
Series Statement:
Gender Relations in the American Experience Ser
Content:
Intro -- 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, Stanford 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 Heat-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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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""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""
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""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, Stanford Football, and Hypermasculine Liminal Subjects""
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""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 Heat-of-Passion Defense in Texas""
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""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""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""Illustrations""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801891724
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801886034
Additional Edition:
Print version Brutes in Suits : Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920
Language:
English
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