http://nursingclio.org/2012/12/31/masculinity-and-guns-in-america/ Because the Personal is Historical Thu, 23 May 2013 05:04:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nursingclio.org/2012/12/31/masculinity-and-guns-in-america/#comment-4233 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:43:32 +0000 http://nursingclio.org/?p=3879#comment-4233 [...] whole individual. I specifically wanted to address labels in relation to gender as a follow up to Ashley Baggett’s excellent post on masculinity and Adam Turner’s awesome post in which he talks about sorting and categorizing [...]

]]> http://nursingclio.org/2012/12/31/masculinity-and-guns-in-america/#comment-3701 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:46:28 +0000 http://nursingclio.org/?p=3879#comment-3701 [...] Masculinity and Guns in America – Ashley Baggett at Nursing Clio [...]

]]> http://nursingclio.org/2012/12/31/masculinity-and-guns-in-america/#comment-3636 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 04:54:42 +0000 http://nursingclio.org/?p=3879#comment-3636 You are absolutely right, Warren. I didn’t convey the shift in emotion well given my focus on healthy expression of feelings. Thanks for pointing that out!

]]> http://nursingclio.org/2012/12/31/masculinity-and-guns-in-america/#comment-3635 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 04:53:40 +0000 http://nursingclio.org/?p=3879#comment-3635 [...] Masculinity and Guns in America [...]

]]> http://nursingclio.org/2012/12/31/masculinity-and-guns-in-america/#comment-3634 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 04:44:23 +0000 http://nursingclio.org/?p=3879#comment-3634 Restraint and cool were both elements of Victorian era masculinity in the US, but sentiment and the expression of feeling were also considered important leading to a kind of “double manhood” that a number of scholars have noted. Contrary to the idea that men lost access to feeling, historian E. Anthony Rotundo called manliness in the late nineteenth century “Passionate Manhood.” Men went out of doors to hunt, play baseball and football, row, sail, fish and stayed indoors to box and wrestle (see the paintings of Thomas Eakins for example) because a healthy man needed to access his “primitive self” it was increasingly believed. It is not that men became unemotional but the transition appears to have shifted from an emphasis on sentiment and the attachment to others to the kind of aggressive and competitive spirit that promoted success in an increasingly capitalistic economy. This kind of emotion all too often can spill over into violence. And it is important to note, that need to succeed in the market place was sparked and complemented by women and the state increasingly taking over the role of nurturer, educator, and socializer of children. Men became marginalized as emotional figures in the home and their success was increasingly measured by their success as breadwinner as the nineteenth century folded into the twentieth.

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