Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 by Catharine R. Stimpson, Gail Bederman

Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917

Women in Culture and Society

Catharine R. Stimpson, Gail Bederman

322 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction gender history challenging informative slow-paced
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When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white...

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