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9780814747148

Republic of Men : The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics

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    9780814747148

  • ISBN10:

    0814747140

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-04-01
  • Publisher: New York University Press

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Summary

What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a republic of men but feared that disorderly men threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms of manhoodûexemplified by the Family Man, for instance--were deployed as a means of stigmatizing unworthy men, rewarding responsible men with citizenship, and empowering exceptional men with positions of leadership and authority, while excluding women from public life. Kann suggests that the founders committed themselves in theory to the democratic proposition that all men were created free and equal and could not be governed without their own consent, but that they in no way believed that all men could be trusted with equal liberty, equal citizenship, or equal authority. The founders developed a grammar of manhood to address some difficult questions about public order. Were America's disorderly men qualified for citizenship? Were they likely to recognize manly leaders, consent to their authority, and defer to their wisdom? A Republic of Men compellingly analyzes the ways in which the founders used a rhetoric of manhood to stabilize American politics.

Author Biography

Mark E. Kann, Professor of Political Science, holds the USC Associates Chair in Social Science at the University of Southern California.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
Introductionp. 1
The Culture of Manhoodp. 5
The Grammar of Manhoodp. 30
The Bachelor and Other Disorderly Menp. 52
The Family Man and Citizenshipp. 79
The Better Sort and Leadershipp. 105
The Heroic Man and National Destinyp. 130
The Founders' Gendered Legacyp. 155
Notesp. 179
Bibliographyp. 219
Indexp. 231
About the Authorp. 238
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