| Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars Revised Edition Contributor(s): Hoganson, Kristin L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300085540 ISBN-13: 9780300085549 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $24.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: Blending gender, political, and foreign policy history, this groundbreaking book offers a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. The author shows how gender concerns influenced political leaders and how gendered arguments helped shape turn-of-the-century debates over war and empire. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Men's Studies - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 973.891 |
| Series: Yale Historical Publications |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6.1" W x 9.18" (0.99 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders desire to wage these conflicts, and she traces how they manipulated ideas about gender to embroil the nation in war. She argues that racial beliefs were only part of the cultural framework that undergirded U.S. martial policies at the turn of the century. Gender beliefs, also affected the rise and fall of the nation s imperialist impulse. Drawing on an extensive range of sources, including congressional debates, campaign speeches, political tracts, newspapers, magazines, political cartoons, and the papers of politicians, soldiers, suffragists, and other political activists, Hoganson discusses how concerns about manhood affected debates over war and empire. She demonstrates that jingoist political leaders, distressed by the passing of the Civil War generation and by women s incursions into electoral politics, embraced war as an opportunity to promote a political vision in which soldiers were venerated as model citizens and women remained on the fringes of political life. These gender concerns not only played an important role in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars, they have echoes in later time periods, says the author, and recognizing their significance has powerful ramifications for the way we view international relations.Yale Historical Publications |