Identifications [You should
be prepared to identify and state the importance of the following
terms:]
sex temperament
Talcott Parsons
appetites/affections "Modern
Gender order"
self-made man
Agnes
sexual objectification patriarchy
"perverse masochism"
homosociality
Oedipal complex
partible inheritance
role theory
conjugal authority
individualism
essentialism
feminization
Theodor Reik
penis-envy
producerism
civil society
Barbary Coast
gender transgression sex-roles
Richard Baxter
Thomas Hall
sermons
rough-and-tumbles
Undutiful children
apprenticeship
fornication
Matrons jury
cult of sentiment
habits of industry
flesh-pleasing
hegemonic masculinity
sexual identity
functional-structuralism American Gothic
The Luck
"having words"
"dangerous classes" "heroic artisan"
gender production
Sigmund Freud
Essay questions [You should be prepared to write a 4-5 paragraph essay in answer to the following:]
1. Trace the development of theories on gender development, from Freud through Foucault and other "postmodernists." How have theorists explained the biological, personality, social, functionalist, and performative (or "display") aspects of being male?
2. Explain the role of sexuality in the emergence of a "proper gender order" in the colonial period. What importance did sex, sexuality, sexual identity and behavior play in this period, and how was this "proper gender order" both encouraged and enforced?
3. Examine the role of "masculinity" in the development of status differences between men in early national period America. How did Americans' ideas of what it meant to be a "manly" man reflect changing social and economic conditions?
4. Compare and contrast the ways in which men could express their emotions in socially acceptable ways in the following periods and regions: colonial New England, early National period U.S., pre-civil war Southern backcountry, and California in the 1840s and 1850s.
5. Identify four major forms of cultural expression of concerns about manhood and masculinity in American from the colonial period through the 1840s. Explain how each cultural form worked to define manhood and masculinity.
6. Explain the role of violence in the development of ideas about gender in America to the 1840s. Under what conditions might "respectable men" resort to violence as appropriate ways to express their identities as men? Were there periods during which "polite society" discouraged the expression of violent manliness?
7. Examine the ways in which autonomy,
individualism and manliness contributed to the development of an "American
character" in the period before the Civil War.