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

Kevin P. Murphy

May, 2008
Cloth, 320 pages, 13 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-12996-1
$35.00 / £20.50

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

• American History
• Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

About the Author

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

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