Academic Viagra: The Rise of American Masculinity Studies

Traister, Bryce

doi:10.1353/aq.2000.0025

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“…98 Traister points out that historians have managed to identify a crisis in masculinity at virtually every moment in American history. In his analysis, Traister finds this common motif in studies that have embraced the notion of gender as a 'historically contingent' performance.…”

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“…In his article 'Academic Viagra', Bryce Traister argues that a 'crisis model' of masculinity which 'locates instability at the base of all masculine identities' has dominated historiographies of American masculinity. 98 Traister points out that historians have managed to identify a crisis in masculinity at virtually every moment in American history. In his analysis, Traister finds this common motif in studies that have embraced the notion of gender as a 'historically contingent' performance.…”

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Mormon Masculinity: Changing Gender Expectations in the Era of Transition from Polygamy to Monogamy, 1890-1920

Hoyt

Patterson

2011

Gender &Amp; History

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During the period from 1890 to 1920, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints (LDS) perceived a crisis in the lives of their boys. Like their Protestant contemporaries, Latter‐day Saints spent much time attempting to find a solution. At the same time, the LDS church was experiencing its own unique set of upheavals. In 1890, one of the central tenets of Mormonism – polygamy – had to be replaced with sexual practices that aligned the LDS with wider American society. It was during this transitional period that members and authorities of the LDS church sought to gain respectability in American culture by emphasising the morality and value systems they shared with their middle‐class Protestant contemporaries. As Mormons restructured marriage around the practice of monogamy, they placed the burden of the refashioned religious identity almost exclusively upon men and their bodies. The new Mormon man ushered the LDS church into the American mainstream while maintaining an acceptable difference from that mainstream culture.

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Mormon Masculinity: Changing Gender Expectations in the Era of Transition from Polygamy to Monogamy, 1890-1920

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Patterson

2011

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“…Men who adhere to conservative masculinity norms can respond to these societal shifts by supporting populist politicians, who exploit sentiments of aggrieved entitlement (Kimmel, 2013), or by voting against out-groups during referendums. 2 The extent to which 'manly' behavior is expected of men differs across societies, cultures, and over time (Traister (2000)). This raises the question: Where do norms about masculinity come from?…”

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Men. Roots and Consequences of Masculinity Norms

2018

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Recent research has uncovered the historical roots of gender norms about women and the persistent effect of such norms on economic development. We find similar long-term effects of masculinity norms: beliefs about the proper conduct of men. We exploit a natural historical experiment in which convict transportation in the 18th and 19th century created a variegated spatial pattern of sex ratios across Australia. We show that in areas that were heavily male-biased in the past (though not the present) more Australians recently voted against same-sex marriage, an institution at odds with traditional masculinity norms. Survey data show that this voting pattern is mostly driven by men. Further evidence indicates that these historically male-biased areas also remain characterized by more violence, excessive alcohol consumption, and occupational gender segregation. We interpret these behaviors as manifestations of masculinity norms that emerged due to intense local male-male competition and that persisted over time.

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“…But, as Bryce Traister has cautioned, this apparent crisis -indicated by such statistics and by stubborn anxieties -ought not distract us from what he has termed 'an American masculinity remarkable for its satisfied ego, its imperial drive, its individual power, its sexual aggression, and its assumption of citizenship as a matter of birth and God-given right'. 68 From this perspective, the shortcomings of tropical employees fade: during these decades, United Fruit enjoyed its most profitable years, steadily expanding both its Latin American properties and its US market share. Whatever the misgivings of the boardroom, enough tropical managers and technicians reconciled themselves to tropical life to ensure the company's profitability -even if, like Brown, they only stayed with the company a short time.…”

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Becoming Banana Cowboys: White‐Collar Masculinity, the United Fruit Company and Tropical Empire in Early Twentieth‐Century Latin America

Martin¹

2013

Gender & History

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Academic Viagra: The Rise of American Masculinity Studies

Cited by 51 publications

References 39 publications

Mormon Masculinity: Changing Gender Expectations in the Era of Transition from Polygamy to Monogamy, 1890-1920

Mormon Masculinity: Changing Gender Expectations in the Era of Transition from Polygamy to Monogamy, 1890-1920

Men. Roots and Consequences of Masculinity Norms

Becoming Banana Cowboys: White‐Collar Masculinity, the United Fruit Company and Tropical Empire in Early Twentieth‐Century Latin America

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