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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. New Men: Feminist Histories of Manliness in Early British America
Part I. Settlement
1. Gentlemen and Soldiers: Competing Visions of Manhood in Early Jamestown
2. Indian and English Dreams: Colonial Hierarchy and Manly Restraint in Seventeenth-Century New England
Part II. Warfare
3. "We are men" Native American and Euroamerican Projections of Masculinity During the Seven Years' War
4. Real Men: Masculinity, Spirituality, and Community in Late Eighteenth-Century Cherokee Warfare
Part III. Atlantic
5. "Blood and Lust": Masculinity and Sexuality in Illustrated Print Portrayals of Early Pirates of the Caribbean
6. "Banes of Society" and "Gentlemen of Strong Natural Parts". Attacking and Defending West Indian Creole Masculinity
7. "Impatient of Subordination" and "Liable to Sudden Transports of Anger": White Masculinity and Homosocial Relations with Black Men in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Part IV. Enactment
8. "Effective Men" and Early Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725-1775
9. "Strength of the Lion . . . Arms Like Polished Iron". Embodying Black Masculinity in an Age of Slavery and Propertied Manhood
Part V. Revolution
10. Of Eloquence "Manly" and "Monstrous": The Henpecked. Husband in Revolutionary Political Debate, 1774-1775
11. John Adams and the Choice of Hercules. Manliness and Sexual Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British America
12. "Play the Man . . . for Your Bleeding Country": Military Chaplains as Gender Brokers During the American Revolutionary War
Afterword: Contending Masculinities in Early America
About the Contributors
Index
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction. New Men: Feminist Histories of Manliness in Early British America
Part I. Settlement
1. Gentlemen and Soldiers: Competing Visions of Manhood in Early Jamestown
2. Indian and English Dreams: Colonial Hierarchy and Manly Restraint in Seventeenth-Century New England
Part II. Warfare
3. "We are men" Native American and Euroamerican Projections of Masculinity During the Seven Years' War
4. Real Men: Masculinity, Spirituality, and Community in Late Eighteenth-Century Cherokee Warfare
Part III. Atlantic
5. "Blood and Lust": Masculinity and Sexuality in Illustrated Print Portrayals of Early Pirates of the Caribbean
6. "Banes of Society" and "Gentlemen of Strong Natural Parts". Attacking and Defending West Indian Creole Masculinity
7. "Impatient of Subordination" and "Liable to Sudden Transports of Anger": White Masculinity and Homosocial Relations with Black Men in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Part IV. Enactment
8. "Effective Men" and Early Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725-1775
9. "Strength of the Lion . . . Arms Like Polished Iron". Embodying Black Masculinity in an Age of Slavery and Propertied Manhood
Part V. Revolution
10. Of Eloquence "Manly" and "Monstrous": The Henpecked. Husband in Revolutionary Political Debate, 1774-1775
11. John Adams and the Choice of Hercules. Manliness and Sexual Virtue in Eighteenth-Century British America
12. "Play the Man . . . for Your Bleeding Country": Military Chaplains as Gender Brokers During the American Revolutionary War
Afterword: Contending Masculinities in Early America
About the Contributors
Index