47 pages • 1 hour read
Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1995
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Further Reading & Resources
Further Reading: Literature
The following texts Bederman examines throughout Manliness and Civilization are accessible at the links below:
- Adolescence by G. Stanley Hall
- Ranch Life & the Hunting Trail by Theodore Roosevelt
- “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition” by Ida B. Wells
- “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases” by Ida B. Wells
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt
- Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Further Reading: Beyond Literature (Nonfiction)
- “Why Study ‘Masculinity’ Anyway Perspectives from the Old Days” by Gail Bederman (2011)
In this article published in Culture, Society & Masculinities, Bederman challenges scholars to rethink what it means to study masculinity.
Video & Podcast Resources
- Lynching Postcards: “Token of a Great Day” by Paramount+ (2015)
This 15-minute documentary examines how Black activists have subverted souvenir postcards from lynchings in the 21st century.
