Fighting for American Manhood

Description

This book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. Kristin L. Hoganson shows how gendered ideas about citizenship and political leadership influenced jingoist political leaders' desire to wage these conflicts, and she traces how they manipulated ideas about gender to embroil the nation in war. She argues that racial beliefs were only part of the cultural framework that undergirded U.S. martial policies at the turn of the century. Gender beliefs, often working in tandem with racial beliefs, affected the rise and fall of the nation's imperialist impulse.

First Sentence

Newspapers published in the United States on February 25, 1895, gave no indication that the previous day had been an exceptional one, a day that would be enshrined in history books as a starting point, a significant moment, a date.

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Other Editions

• Fighting for American manhood: how gender politics provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American warsYale University Press1998-01-01
• Fighting for American ManhoodPaperbackYale University Press2000-08-11