Political manhood : red bloods, mollycoddles, the politics of progressive era reform /

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 ho...

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Main Author: Murphy, Kevin P., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, c2008
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