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dc.contributor.advisorMoran, Jeffrey P.
dc.contributor.authorAnthony, Kyle David
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-21T20:33:43Z
dc.date.available2011-06-21T20:33:43Z
dc.date.issued2011-04-19
dc.date.submitted2011
dc.identifier.otherhttp://dissertations.umi.com/ku:11430
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/7698
dc.description.abstractExamination of newspapers, novels, images, and organizational materials from the Gilded Age and Progressive Era reveals that radical groups framed their masculinity within contemporary expectations of manhood in order in order to legitimize their radical theories. An investigation of five prominent radical groups--the Knights of Labor, Haymarket anarchists, Populists, Wobblies, and socialists--shows how radicals contested industrial-era capitalism by making the claim that capitalists had degraded workers' manhood. Thus, radicals called on workers to accept their radical programs as a means of regenerating their manhood. In response, the political and industrial elite successfully rebuffed radicalism, in part, by positioning the masculinity of radicals as existing outside of socially acceptable norms. This dissertation explores the discursive contest between radicals and their opponents and uncovers the interconnectedness between masculinity, politics, and economic theories during a crucial period in America's development as a nation.
dc.format.extent268 pages
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Kansas
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dc.subjectAmerica--history
dc.subjectMasculinity studies
dc.title"To Hesitate is Cowardly": Radicalism and American Manhood, 1870-1920
dc.typeDissertation
dc.contributor.cmtememberForth, Chris
dc.contributor.cmtememberRosenthal, Anton
dc.contributor.cmtememberWilson, Theodore A.
dc.contributor.cmtememberSchofield, Ann
dc.thesis.degreeDisciplineHistory
dc.thesis.degreeLevelPh.D.
kusw.oastatusna
kusw.oapolicyThis item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
kusw.bibid7642940
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