Compare and contrast the ideological positions and personal beliefs of <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/manliness-and-civilization/key-figures/#256793">Ida B. Wells</a> and <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Character" href="https://www.supersummary.com/manliness-and-civilization/key-figures/#256795">Charlotte Perkins Gilman</a>. How do they, as women, conceive of <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Index of Terms" href="https://www.supersummary.com/manliness-and-civilization/index-of-terms/#256799">manliness</a> and masculinity? How do they perceive manliness and <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Index of Terms" href="https://www.supersummary.com/manliness-and-civilization/index-of-terms/#256800">masculinity</a> with respect to their conceptions of race? What are their expectations of men, and how would they like to see male behavior change to reflect their ideals? How do they conceptualize their own gender identity and roles as they exist and as they would like them to be? How do their racial identities inform and construct their world views?

Explore the way white middle-class men engage in <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Literary Device" href="https://www.supersummary.com/romanticism/">romanticism</a> in the process of what Bederman calls “remaking <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Index of Terms" href="https://www.supersummary.com/manliness-and-civilization/index-of-terms/#256800">masculinity</a>.” In <a data-internal-link data-link-type="Literary Device" href="https://www.supersummary.com/context/">context</a> of Theodore Roosevelt’s depictions of the American West, Hall’s paternalistic and patronizing view of himself as a savior of people of color, and Burrough’s Tarzan of the Apes, how do these men communicate their value systems through the concepts they sensationalize and misconstrue?

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