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Political Manhood Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform

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ISBN-10: 0231129971

ISBN-13: 9780231129978

Edition: 2010

Authors: Kevin P. Murphy

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In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men," and cautioned that "the weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community."A paradigm of ineffectuality and weakness, the mollycoddle was "all inner life," whereas his opposite, the "red blood," was a man of action. Kevin P. Murphy reveals how the popular ideals of American masculinity coalesced around these two distinct categories. Because of its similarity to the emergent "homosexual"…    
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

#60;b#62;Kevin P. Murphy#60;/b#62; is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of #60;i#62;Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform#60;/i#62; (2008), co-editor of #60;i#62;Queer Twin Cities#60;/i#62; (2010), and co-editor of "Queer Futures," a special issue of the #60;i#62;Radical History Review#60;/i#62; (2008).#60;p#62;#60;b#62;Jennifer M. Spear#60;/b#62; is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of #60;i#62;Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans#60;/i#62; (2009).#60;p#62;

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the "Third Sex"
The Tammany Within: Good Government Reform and Political Manhood
White Army in the White City: Civic Militarism, Urban Space, and the Urban Populace
Socrates in the Slums: "Social Brotherhood" and Settlement House Reform
Daddy George and Tom Brown: Sexual Scandal, Political Manhood, and Self-Government Reform
The Problem of the Impracticables: Sentimentality, Idealism, and Homosexuality
Epilogue: Red Bloods and Mollycoddles in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index