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Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform

Kevin P. Murphy

Paper, 320 pages, 13 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12997-8
$26.50 / £18.50

May, 2008
Cloth, 320 pages, 13 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12996-1
$35.00 / £24.00


Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Of Mugwumps and Mollycoddles: Patronage and the Political Discourse of the "Third Sex"

2. The Tammany Within: Good Government Reform and Political Manhood

3. White Army in the White City: Civic Militarism, Urban Space, and the Urban Populace

4. Socrates in the Slums: "Social Brotherhood" and Settlement House Reform

5. Daddy George and Tom Brown: Sexual Scandal, Political Manhood, and Self-Government

Reform

6. The Problem of the Impracticables: Sentimentality, Idealism, and Homosexuality

Epilogue: Red Bloods and Mollycoddles in the Twentieth Century and Beyond

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects


About the Author

Kevin P. Murphy is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota.

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