Fighting for American Manhood : How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

by Kristin L. Hoganson

• ISBN13: 9780300071818
• ISBN10: 0300071817
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 1998-10-11
• Publisher: Yale Unversity Press

Summary

This groundbreaking book blends international relations and gender history to provide a new understanding of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American wars. 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
List of Abbreviations	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
The Manly Ideal of Politics and the Jingoist Desire for War	15	(28)
Cuba and the Restoration of American Chivalry	43	(25)
``Honor Comes First'': The Congressional Debate over War	68	(20)
McKinley's Backbone: The Coercive Power of Gender in Political Debate	88	(19)
The Spanish-American War and the Martial Ideal of Citizenship	107	(26)
The Problem of Male Degeneracy and the Allure of the Philippines	133	(23)
The National Manhood Metaphor and the Fight over the Fathers in the Philippine Debate	156	(24)
Imperial Degeneracy: The Dissolution of the Imperialist Impulse	180	(20)
Conclusion: Engendering War	200	(9)
Notes	209	(56)
Bibliography	265	(32)
Index	297