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Readings are (at least) listed for the //**first**// week that they are introduced.

I (cameron) tried to link later weeks back to the same pages but there is no guarantee that it worked perfectly so I would recommend checking the syllabus. This is mostly relevant for the books that we are reading over the course of multiple weeks.

==== Week 1: Introduction: Why Manhood? ====

* [[Boydston, “Gender as a Question of Historical Analysis”]]
  * [[Fraser, “State of the Field: The History of Masculinities” |Fraser, “State of the Field: The History of Masculinities”]]

==== Week 2: Encounters: Masculinity in Contact ====

* [[Romero, Making War and Minting Christians]]
  * [[McCurdy, “Gentlemen and Soldiers”]]
  * [[Gasser, Vexed with Devils]]

==== Week 3: Masculinity, Race, and Slavery ====

* [[Black, Dismantling Black Manhood]]
  * [[Douglass, Narrative]]
  * [[Horton, “Freedom’s Yoke”]]

==== Week 4: Self-Making in the North ====

* [[Kimmel, Manhood in America]]
  * [[Luskey, On the Make]]
  * [[Dorsey, “Making Men What They Should Be]]

==== Week 5: Becoming Bourgeois Men ====

* [[Gilfoyle, City of Eros]]
  * [[Cohen, “Unregulated Youths”]]
  * [[Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class]]
  * [[Johansen, Family Men]]

==== Week 6: Making Southern White Manhood  ====

* [[Greenberg, Honor and Slavery]]

==== Week 7: Violence, Race, and Manhood ====

* [[Mitchell, Vacant Chair]]
  * [[Bederman, Manliness & Civilization]]
  * [[Greenberg, Manifest Manhood]]

==== Week 8: Gendered “Civilization” ====

* [[Bederman, Manliness & Civilization]]
  * [[Marsh, “Suburban Men and Masculine Domesticity”]]

==== Week 9: Manhood and Empire ====

* [[Bederman, Manliness & Civilization]]
  * [[Gleijeses, “African Americans and the War Against Spain”]]

==== Week 10: Work, Play, and Manhood ====

* [[Kimmel, Manhood in America]]

==== Week 11: Making Heterosexuals and Homosexuals ====

* [[Chauncey, Gay New York]]

==== Week 12: Female Husbands ====

* [[Manion, Female Husbands]]

==== Week 13: Sexuality and Manhood in the Twentieth Century ====

* [[Chauncey, Gay New York]]
  * [[Kimmel, Manhood in America]]

==== Week 14: Manhood and Race in the Twentieth Century ====

* [[Estes, I am a Man!]]
  * [[Kimmel, Manhood in America]]
Kimmel:

Here, Kimmel places emphasis on the masculinity crisis of the 20th Century, where masculinity became reconstructed via socioeconomic change. At this point in time, industrial labor began to decline which compromised the identities of traditional male roles. Masculinity shifted and men experienced challenges to their authority at the hands of the Women's Movement which urged men to reshape their roles in the workplace and at home. This shift contributed to the hypermasculine “angry white male” as a response to the renegotiation of their roles in society. Here is another point in which men chose to redefine manhood through various groups that focus on emotional male healing and gender equality in regards to emotional expression and introspection through personal, political, and social outlets. This reaction highlights the instability and constantly contested nature of masculinity with a very traditional blueprint. (Reiley Gibson)

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