Measuring Manhood: Race and the Science of Masculinity, 1830-1934

by Melissa N. Stein

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From 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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816673039

ISBN13:9780816673032

Release Date:September 2015

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"

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