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Gail Bederman’s work explores how late‑nineteenth‑early twentieth‑century America moved from self‑restrained Victorian manliness to an aggressive, overtly sexualized form of masculinity. She shows how this transformation merged the image of the untamed, racially “primitive” male with the cultivated superiority of white men. Drawing on the lives and writings of Theodore Roosevelt, G. Stanley Hall, Ida B. Wells, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Bederman illuminates the ideological, cultural, and social forces that shaped these overlapping concepts of manhood.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Gail Bederman
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