Fighting for American Manhood
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How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars
Kristin L. Hoganson
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Blending the insights of gender studies with foreign-policy studies, this groundbreaking book offers a new understanding of American imperialism during the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars
"Required reading for all who seek to understand the reasons why the United States embarked upon an imperial path at the close of the nineteenth century."—Edward P. Crapol, Historian
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, also affected the rise and fall of the nation`s imperialist impulse.
"Required reading for all who seek to understand the reasons why the United States embarked upon an imperial path at the close of the nineteenth century."—Edward P. Crapol, Historian
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, also affected the rise and fall of the nation`s imperialist impulse.
Drawing on an extensive range of sources, including congressional debates, campaign speeches, political tracts, newspapers, magazines, political cartoons, and the papers of politicians, soldiers, suffragists, and other political activists, Hoganson discusses how concerns about manhood affected debates over war and empire. She demonstrates that jingoist political leaders, distressed by the passing of the Civil War generation and by women`s incursions into electoral politics, embraced war as an opportunity to promote a political vision in which soldiers were venerated as model citizens and women remained on the fringes of political life. These gender concerns not only played an important role in the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars, they have echoes in later time periods, says the author, and recognizing their significance has powerful ramifications for the way we view international relations.
Kristin L. Hoganson is assistant professor of history and of history and literature at Harvard University.
ISBN: 9780300071818
Publication Date: October 11, 1998
Publication Date: October 11, 1998
320 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
19 b/w illus.
19 b/w illus.
