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New Men – Manliness in Early America

Autor Thomas A. Foster, Mary Beth Norton, Toby L. Ditz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 ian 2011
In 1782, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur wrote, “What then, is the American, this new man? He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced.” In casting aside their European mores, these pioneers, de Crèvecoeur implied, were the very embodiment of a new culture, society, economy, and political system. But to what extent did manliness shape early America’s character and institutions? And what roles did race, ethnicity, and class play in forming masculinity?Thomas A. Foster and his contributors grapple with these questions in New Men, showcasing how colonial and Revolutionary conditions gave rise to new standards of British American manliness. Focusing on Indian, African, and European masculinities in British America from earliest Jamestown through the Revolutionary era, and addressing such topics that range from slavery to philanthropy, and from satire to warfare, the essays in this anthology collectively demonstrate how the economic, political, social, cultural, and religious conditions of early America shaped and were shaped by ideals of masculinity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814727812
ISBN-10: 0814727816
Pagini: 292
Dimensiuni: 153 x 227 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: MI – New York University

Cuprins

Contents; Ackowledgments viii; Preface: Mary Beth Norton ix; Introduction: New Men: Feminist Histories of Manliness in Early British America 1; Thomas A. Foster; I. Settlement; 1. Gentlemen and Soldiers: Competing Visions of Manhood in Early Jamestown 11; John Gilbert McCurdy; 2. Indian and English Dreams: Colonial Hierarchy, and Manly Restraint in Seventeenth-Century New England 46; Ann Marie Plane; II. Warfare; 3. “We are MEN”: Native American and Euroamerican Projections of Masculinity during the Seven Years’ War 76; Tyler Boulware; 4. Real Men: Masculinity, Spirituality, and Community in Late-Eighteenth-Century Cherokee Warfare 107; Susan Abram; III. Atlantic ; 5. “Blood and Lust”: Masculinity and Sexuality in Illustrated Print Portrayals of Early Pirates of the Caribbean 142; Carolyn Eastman; 6. “Banes of Society” and “Gentlemen of Strong Natural Parts”: Attacking and Defending West Indian Creole Masculinity 170; Natalie A. Zacek; 7. “Impatient of Subordination and Liable to Sudden Transports of Anger:” White Masculinity and Homosocial Relations with Black Men in Eighteenth Century Jamaica 198; Trevor Burnard; IV. Enactment; 8. “Effective Men” and Early Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725-1775 229; Jessica Choppin Roney; 9. “Strength of the Lion...Arms like polished iron:” Embodying Black Masculinity in an Age of Slavery and Propertied Manhood 257; Kathleen Brown; V. Revolution; 10. Of Eloquence “Manly” and “Monstrous”: the Mobilizing Power of Gender in Revolutionary Political Debate, 1774-1775 290; Benjamin Irvin; 11. John Adams and the Choice of Hercules: Manliness and Sexual Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British America 325; Thomas A. Foster; 12. “Play the Man. . . for Your Bleeding Country”: Military Chaplains as Gender Brokers During the American Revolutionary War 354; Janet Moore Lindman; Afterword 386; Toby L. Ditz; About the Contributors; Index

Recenzii

"In lucid prose, the contributors map the contours of early American manhood from first encounters through the Revolution, and from the marriage bed to the battlefield. The results demonstrate the continuing vitality of gender as a category of analysis as well as the fascinating, sometimes terrifying dynamism of the colonial Atlantic world.” Jane Kamensky, author of Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England

Notă biografică

Thomas A. Foster is Professor of History at DePaul University, in Chicago, and author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, and Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. He is also editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality (NYU Press, 2007), New Men: Manliness in Early America (NYU Press, 2011), and Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. Foster tweets at @ThomasAFoster.

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Considers the conditions of early America which shaped and were shaped by ideals of masculinity