Hoganson argues, to fully understand the descent into war, we need to understand how contemporaries viewed the precipitating incidents, what seemed to be at stake in their diplomatic and political wranglings, and what assumptions they brought to their highlevel. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars, yale university press. This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the spanish american and philippine american wars. Kristin hoganson notes that calls for the united states to join the conflict in cuba hailed from many points of view in the years leading up to the conflict. American empire at the turn of the twentieth century 1st. Hoganson charts the shift in conceptions of manhood from an older 19th century version that emphasized selfrestraint and virtue, to one of physical prowess, militarism, and aggression. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars yale historical publications, miscellany yale historical publications series new ed by hoganson, kristin isbn. Hoganson, with long an critical reading i believe the text dose support hoganson fight for american manhood. Kristin hoganson is professor of history at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign. Project muse cuba, the philippines, and the hundred years war. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican war. Hoganson argues, to fully understand the descent into war, we need to understand how contemporaries viewed the precipitating incidents, what seemed to be at stake in their diplomatic and political wranglings, and. There is also a large quantity of political cartoons from the time, depicting such people as president mckinley, theodore roosevelt, and the iconic uncle sam. Oct 11, 1998 she is the author of fighting for american manhood.
At a minimum, she considers gender to be a useful tool for linking together the jumble of unrelated causal hypotheses that now pretend to pass for explanations of the war, but she is. The global production of american domesticity, 18651820. Click download or read online button to get fighting for american manhood book now. It is a model of scholarship, driven by passionate argument and sustained by judicious formulation of evidence, carefully crafted and richly documented. As the civil war generation aged, many felt that a new. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine. Hoganson s fighting for american manhood 1998, a historical study that illustrates that a national obsession with the supposed declining manhood of american males in the late nineteenth century provoked the united states intervention in cuba in 1898. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and. To build this argument, this article draws on kristin l. Fighting for american manhood, yale, 1998 hoganson subtitles her book, how gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars.
By the 1890s, many american men felt that american manhood was under assault from outside and within. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars. Hoganson subtitles her book, how gender politics provoked the. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars lester d. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars. Oct 16, 2012 precis 1 fighting for american manhood kristin hoganson has a very interesting idea, which she defends very well with a lot of evidence. Fighting for american manhood kristin hoganson has a very interesting idea, which she defends very well with a lot of evidence. Fighting for american manhood yale university press in the widening discussion over the roots of modern u. Fighting for american manhood, yale, 1998 hoganson subtitles her book, how gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars, kristin l. In 1898, the united states entered a war with spain to liberate cuba from the european powers imperialist grasp.
Fighting for american manhood collects its information from a wide variety f sources, some being magazines and journal articles, and others being more in depth, like family letters. Kristin hogansons fighting for american manhood brings the conceptual weapon of gender theory, which is relatively new to diplomatic history, to the fray. Hoganson, fighting for american manhood cameron blevins. We did, however, receive the following essay from kristin hoganson entitled the probelm of male degeneracy and the allure of the philippines. Hoganson fight for american man hood in reading this conclusive text male degeneracy and the allure of the philippines 1998 by kristin l. Hoganson argues that gender politics played a major role in forcing american into the spanish american and philippine wars. In fighting for american manhood, kristin hoganson investigates a parallel theme in united states imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century.
I teach classes on historical methods and writing, the united states in world context, u. She is the author of fighting for american manhood. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership. It is excerpted from her book fighting for american manhood. Hoganson is an american historian specializing in the history of the united states.
Kristin hoganson s fighting for american manhood brings the conceptual weapon of gender theory, which is relatively new to diplomatic history, to the fray. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars and consumers imperium. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars, kristin l. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippineamerican wars. Historians on masculinity, sexual boundaries, and manhood judith a. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars 1998 and consumers imperium. Apr 10, 2015 kristin hoganson, professor of history at the university of illinois, urbanachampaign, is the author of fighting for american manhood. Fighting for american manhood yale university press. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. How gender politics provoked the spanish american and philippine american wars yale historical publications series by hoganson, kristin l.
Yale university is professor of history at the university of illinois, urbanachampaign. The global production of american domesticity, 19651920. She posits that foreign policy did not exist in a vacuum, but was affected by the culture that surrounded it 2. Kristin hoganson writes a cultural history of the spanishamerican and philippine american wars at the close of the 19th century through the lens of gender. In american manhood, rotundo studies the changing experience of manhood over the past two hundred years among influential white, middle class yankee northerners. How gender politics provoked the spanishamerican and philippineamerican wars new haven. American wars american manhood and the rhetoric of war warner blanchard 2000 diplomatic history wiley online library. Fighting for american manhood download ebook pdf, epub. American empire at the turn of the twentieth century, 1st. She specializes in the united states in world context, cultures of u. She teaches at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign she was educated at yale university receiving her b. American empire at the turn of the twentieth century. In fighting for american manhood, kristin hoganson investigates a parallel theme in united states imperialism at the turn of the twentieth century, contending that concerns over gender rolesa topic usually marginalized in the study of united states foreign relationswere part of a broad cultural framework that provoked the militant.