Brutes in suits : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920

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Brutes in suits : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920

John Pettegrew

（Gender relations in the American experience）

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

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Bibliography: p. [335]-398

Includes index

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Are men truly predisposed to violence and aggression? Is it the biological fate of males to struggle for domination over women and vie against one another endlessly? These and related queries have long vexed philosophers, social scientists, and other students of human behavior. In Brutes in Suits, historian John Pettegrew examines theoretical writings and cultural traditions in the United States to find that, Darwinian arguments to the contrary, masculine aggression can be interpreted as a modern strategy for taking power. Drawing ideas from varied and at times seemingly contradictory sources, Pettegrew argues that traditionally held beliefs about masculinity developed largely through language and cultural habit-and that these same tools can be employed to break through the myth that brutishness is an inherently male trait. A major re-synthesis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manhood, Brutes in Suits develops ambitious lines of research into the social science of sexual difference and professional history's celebration of rugged individualism; the hunting-and-killing genre of popular men's literature; that master text of hypermasculinity: college football; military culture, war making, and finding pleasure in killing; and patriarchy, sexual jealousy, and the law. This timely assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians for years to come.

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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, Stanford 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 Heat-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

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