Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale Historical Publications Series) (0300085540) - Reviews and Prices
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Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (Yale Historical Publications Series) (0300085540) - Reviews and Prices
This study of international relations and gender history reveals how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders' desire to wage conflicts, and traces how they manipulated ideas about gender to embroil the nation in war.
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Spanish American War History:
A well researched and written account of reasons for America's participation in the Spanish American War. The author stirs the reader's interest with numerous primary source citations to support her point and presents revealing information about the American perspective for participating in the Spanish American War.
While Interesting - this book ignores some of the international & historical dimensions of so-called "gender politics":
The author approaches her subject from an interesting perspective. So-called masculine myths have always heavily influenced male roles in both domestic and foreign policy. For all recorded time, the ruling classes constantly produce the so-called 'idle rich," most of whom chose to remain remain comfortable idle, while others, with the benefit of that very idleness begin to question their place in society and the wider world. Some decide that they must play a significant part on the local-to-international... more info
An Alternative Perception of the Spanish-American and Philippine American War:
In a somewhat flamboyant pose with his tails and pinstripe pants, Uncle Sam breaks out of his regular pose . Kristin L. Hoganson uses the illustration to depict a rather loose portrait of American symbolism in her examination of how gender and cultural studies ties in with the historical narrative of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars, FIGHTING FOR AMERICAN MANHOOD: HOW GENDER POLITICS PROVOKED THE SPANISH-AMERICAN AND PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WARS. Hoganson's study is unique, and is yet an... more info
Murderous Pissing Contest:
Studying how gender norms and ideals contribute to, and at times create, historical events is not a revolutionary idea; but applying gender norms and ideals to how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Americans understood war and empire comes very close to being just that. Professor Hoganson's short study of how bellicose ideals of male virility which glorify physical prowess and anxieties about an altering gender landscape in the years just before and after the Spanish and Philippine-American wars... more info
