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OverviewFrom the ""gay gene"" to the ""female brain"" and African American students' insufficient ""hereditary background"" for higher education, arguments about a biological basis for human difference have reemerged in the twenty-first century. ""Measuring Manhood ""shows where they got their start.Melissa N. Stein analyzes how race became the purview of science in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America and how it was constructed as a biological phenomenon with far-reaching social, cultural, and political resonances. She tells of scientific ""experts"" who advised the nation on its most pressing issues and exposes their use of gender and sex differences to conceptualize or buttress their claims about racial difference. Stein examines the works of scientists and scholars from medicine, biology, ethnology, and other fields to trace how their conclusions about human difference did no less than to legitimize sociopolitical hierarchy in the United States.Covering a wide range of historical actors from Samuel Morton, the infamous collector and measurer of skulls in the 1830s, to NAACP leader and antilynching activist Walter White in the 1930s, this book reveals the role of gender, sex, and sexuality in the scientific making?and unmaking?of race. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Melissa N. SteinPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.363kg ISBN: 9780816673032ISBN 10: 0816673039 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 01 September 2015 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsSmartly conceptualized and engagingly written. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written. <i>Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences</i></p> <i>Measuring Manhood</i> is well-written and complexly argued. It will be a useful text for courses in the history of medicine, gender, and sexuality studies; American history and science and technology studies. It provides an example of how to do inter-sectional analysis. <i>Men & Masculinities</i></p> A masterful work on the way racial theory, gender and science came together in the long nineteenth century. <i>Social History of Medicine</i></p> A noble effort to reveal the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in the history of American science. <i>American Historical Review</i></p> Smartly conceptualized and engagingly written. <i>Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences</i></p> A well-written narrative, <i>Measuring Manhood</i> is a welcome contribution to the histories of science and medicine, race, and sex and sexuality as well to the interdisciplinary fields of American studies and gender studies. <i>Journal of American History</i></p> Measuring Manhood is the book we ve been hoping for. For two generations, historians have talked about the ways that race, class, and gender are interlocking and co-operational. Carefully and thoughtfully, Melissa N. Stein gathers these plots and lays out a story of intersecting interests and ideologies: a story of knowledge gone mad that is deeply resonant in our time. Matthew Pratt Guterl, Brown University Author InformationMelissa N. Stein is assistant professor of gender and women's studies at the University of Kentucky. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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