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Measuring manhood : race and the science of masculinity, 1830-1934 /

"From the 'gay gene' to the 'female brain' and African American students' insufficient 'hereditary background' for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. Measuring Manhood shows whe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stein, Melissa N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Making Race, Marking Difference
  • 1. "Races of Men" : Ethnology in Antebellum America
  • 2. An "Equal Beard" for "Equal Voting" : Gender and Citizenship in the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Redemption
  • 3. Inverts, Perverts, and Primitives : Racial Thought and the American School of Sexology
  • 4. Unsexing the Race : Lynching, Castration, and Racial Science
  • 5. Walter White, Scientific Racism, and the NAACP Antilynching Campaign
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Charting Racial Science : Data and Methodology.