Brutes in Suits : Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920 /
Основен автор: | Pettegrew, John, 1959- |
---|---|
Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2007.
|
Серия: |
Gender relations in the American experience.
|
Предмети: | |
Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=249432 |
Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Brutes in suits. |
Съдържание:
- 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.