229 research outputs found
Tangled Webs (And Stories) Of Love: Review Of Trials Of Intimacy: Love And Loss In The Beecher-Tilton Scandal By R. Wightman Fox
A Man\u27s World: Revisiting Histories Of Men And Gender: Review Of On The Make: Clerks And The Quest For Capital In Nineteenth-Century America; Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus In Nineteenth-Century America By B.P. Luskey And R. Stott
Friends Becoming Enemies: Philadelphia Benevolence And The Neglected Era Of American Quaker History
Review Of Muscular Christianity: Manhood And Sports In Protestant America, 1880β1920 By C. Putney
Reforming Men And Women: Gender In The Antebellum City
Before the Civil War, the public lives of American men and women intersected most frequently in the arena of religious activism. Bruce Dorsey broadens the field of gender studies, incorporating an analysis of masculinity into the history of early American religion and reform. His is a holistic account that reveals the contested meanings of manhood and womanhood among antebellum Americans, both black and white, middle class and working class. Combining stories of both ordinary individuals and major reformers with an insightful analysis of contemporary songs, plays, fiction, and polemics, Dorsey exposes the ways race, class, and ethnicity influenced the meanings of manhood and womanhood in nineteenth-century America. By linking his gendered history of religious activism with the transformations characterizing antebellum society, he contributes to a larger quest: to engender all of American history
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