She is the author of fighting for american manhood. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars. Hoganson, fighting for american manhood cameron blevins. In american manhood, rotundo studies the changing experience of manhood over the past two hundred years among influential white, middle class yankee northerners. Kristin hogansons fighting for american manhood brings the conceptual weapon of gender theory, which is relatively new to diplomatic history, to the fray. Kristin hoganson is professor of history at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign. American empire at the turn of the twentieth century, 1st. This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the spanish american and philippine american wars. Kristin hoganson s fighting for american manhood brings the conceptual weapon of gender theory, which is relatively new to diplomatic history, to the fray. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars yale historical publications, miscellany yale historical publications series new ed by hoganson, kristin isbn. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars, yale university press. She teaches at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign she was educated at yale university receiving her b. Fighting for american manhood, yale, 1998 hoganson subtitles her book, how gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars lester d.
American manhood and the rhetoric of war warner blanchard. Hoganson charts the shift in conceptions of manhood from an older 19th century version that emphasized selfrestraint and virtue, to one of physical prowess, militarism, and aggression. Hoganson argues that gender politics played a major role in forcing american into the spanish american and philippine wars. American empire at the turn of the twentieth century. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars. We did, however, receive the following essay from kristin hoganson entitled the probelm of male degeneracy and the allure of the philippines.
Hoganson, with long an critical reading i believe the text dose support hoganson fight for american manhood. It is excerpted from her book fighting for american manhood. Project muse cuba, the philippines, and the hundred years war. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars new haven. Fighting for american manhood download ebook pdf, epub. She specializes in the united states in world context, cultures of u. The global production of american domesticity, 19651920. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican war.
Fighting for american manhood yale university press in the widening discussion over the roots of modern u. Fighting for american manhood, yale, 1998 hoganson subtitles her book, how gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars. Hoganson fight for american man hood in reading this conclusive text male degeneracy and the allure of the philippines 1998 by kristin l. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. I teach classes on historical methods and writing, the united states in world context, u. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars 1998 and consumers imperium.
The global production of she specializes in the united states in world context, cultures of u. To build this argument, this article draws on kristin l. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars, kristin l. Hoganson argues, to fully understand the descent into war, we need to understand how contemporaries viewed the precipitating incidents, what seemed to be at stake in their diplomatic and political wranglings, and what assumptions they brought to their highlevel. Hoganson s fighting for american manhood 1998, a historical study that illustrates that a national obsession with the supposed declining manhood of american males in the late nineteenth century provoked the united states intervention in cuba in 1898. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars, kristin l. It is a model of scholarship, driven by passionate argument and sustained by judicious formulation of evidence, carefully crafted and richly documented. American empire at the turn of the twentieth century 1st. Kristin lee hoganson department of gender and women studies. Oct 11, 1998 she is the author of fighting for american manhood. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars yale historical publications series by hoganson, kristin l. In 1898, the united states entered a war with spain to liberate cuba from the european powers imperialist grasp.
Fighting for american manhood yale university press. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippineamerican wars. As the civil war generation aged, many felt that a new. At a minimum, she considers gender to be a useful tool for linking together the jumble of unrelated causal hypotheses that now pretend to pass for explanations of the war, but she is. In fighting for american manhood, kristin hoganson investigates a parallel theme in united states imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership. Kristin hoganson notes that calls for the united states to join the conflict in cuba hailed from many points of view in the years leading up to the conflict. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine. The global production of american domesticity, 18651820. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars and consumers imperium.
By the 1890s, many american men felt that american manhood was under assault from outside and within. Yale university is professor of history at the university of illinois, urbanachampaign. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the manhood and politics, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Fighting for american manhood collects its information from a wide variety f sources, some being magazines and journal articles, and others being more in depth, like family letters. Fighting for american manhood kristin hoganson has a very interesting idea, which she defends very well with a lot of evidence. Hoganson subtitles her book, how gender politics provoked the. Historians on masculinity, sexual boundaries, and manhood judith a. Hoganson is an american historian specializing in the history of the united states.
American wars american manhood and the rhetoric of war warner blanchard 2000 diplomatic history wiley online library. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and. She posits that foreign policy did not exist in a vacuum, but was affected by the culture that surrounded it 2. Apr 10, 2015 kristin hoganson, professor of history at the university of illinois, urbanachampaign, is the author of fighting for american manhood. Kristin hoganson writes a cultural history of the spanishamerican and philippine american wars at the close of the 19th century through the lens of gender.
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