{"product_id":"brutes-in-suits-male-sensibility-in-america-1890-1920-paperback","title":"Brutes in Suits: Male Sensibility in America, 1890-1920 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Pettegrew\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre 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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese and related queries have long vexed philosophers, social scientists, and other students of human behavior. In \u003ci\u003eBrutes in Suits\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major re-synthesis of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century manhood, \u003ci\u003eBrutes in Suits\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe violent and hyper strain of masculinity in modern America is rooted in historical memory, as John Pettegrew demonstrates in this sharply critical study of the cultural construction of sexual difference and the male instinct for aggressiveness. Broadly gauged and deeply researched institutional histories of social science, popular literature, college football, military culture, and the law divulge a master de-evolutionary impulse of projecting brutishness into the distant human and animal past where late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century men could embrace it as the predominant natural trait of manhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[A] vivid, massively researched history of 'hyper-masculine' sensibility at the turn of the twentieth century . . . An instructive and provocative view of men's dark side.--\u003ci\u003eMen and Masculinities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating and ambitious study explores how an aggressive 'de-evolutionary' model of masculinity was woven into a broad range of American institutions . . . Pettegrew brings together feminist theory, 'an anthropological ironist perspective' and a wealth of gender studies scholarship to investigate the development of a pervasive mindset of brutish masculinity within a rich selection of archival and popular cultural materials.--\u003ci\u003eGender and History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePettegrew's book remains rigorous and passionate in its narration of the historic appeal as well as the immediate dangers of de-evolutionary masculinity.--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePettegrew demonstrates how . . . Americans projected preexisting gender biases onto the behavior of animals and 'primitive' peoples, thereby rationalizing the aggressive, and often violent, actions of modern-day European-American men as the 'natural' expression of their 'animalistic' core.--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e--Toby L. Ditz, Johns Hopkins University \"Gender and History\"\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe violent and hyper strain of masculinity in modern America is rooted in historical memory, as John Pettegrew demonstrates in this sharply critical study of the cultural construction of sexual difference and the male instinct for aggressiveness. Broadly gauged and deeply researched institutional histories of social science, popular literature, college football, military culture, and the law divulge a master de-evolutionary impulse of projecting brutishness into the distant human and animal past where late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century men could embrace it as the predominant natural trait of manhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] vivid, massively researched history of 'hyper-masculine' sensibility at the turn of the twentieth century . . . An instructive and provocative view of men's dark side.\"--\u003ci\u003eMen and Masculinities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This fascinating and ambitious study explores how an aggressive 'de-evolutionary' model of masculinity was woven into a broad range of American institutions . . . Pettegrew brings together feminist theory, 'an anthropological ironist perspective' and a wealth of gender studies scholarship to investigate the development of a pervasive mindset of brutish masculinity within a rich selection of archival and popular cultural materials.\"--\u003ci\u003eGender and History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pettegrew's book remains rigorous and passionate in its narration of the historic appeal as well as the immediate dangers of de-evolutionary masculinity.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pettegrew demonstrates how . . . Americans projected preexisting gender biases onto the behavior of animals and 'primitive' peoples, thereby rationalizing the aggressive, and often violent, actions of modern-day European-American men as the 'natural' expression of their 'animalistic' core.\"--\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Pettegrew\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of history and director of the American Studies Program at Lehigh University and coeditor of the three-volume \u003ci\u003ePublic Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.86 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52624130048307,"sku":"9781421407647","price":77.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UjNORkdwb2k1b2NOWGRqRWVXdTNhZz09.webp?v=1761998239","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/brutes-in-suits-male-sensibility-in-america-1890-1920-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}