Format:
Online-Ressource (318 p)
ISBN:
9780231129978
Content:
In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," and cautioned that "the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community." A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was "all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coal
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the "Third Sex"; 2. The Tammany Within: Good Government Reform and Political Manhood; 3. White Army in the White City: Civic Militarism, Urban Space, and the Urban Populace; 4. Socrates in the Slums: "Social Brotherhood" and Settlement House Reform; 5. Daddy George and Tom Brown: Sexual Scandal, Political Manhood, and Self- Government Reform; 6. The Problem of the Impracticables: Sentimentality, Idealism, and Homosexuality
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Epilogue: Red Bloods and Mollycoddles in theTwentieth Century and BeyondNotes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231503501
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231129978
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Political Manhood : Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform
Language:
English
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