Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917

The following texts Bederman examines throughout Manliness and Civilization are accessible at the links below:

• Adolescence by G. Stanley Hall
• Ranch Life & the Hunting Trail by Theodore Roosevelt
• “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition” by Ida B. Wells
• “Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All its Phases” by Ida B. Wells
• Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• The Winning of the West by Theodore Roosevelt
• Women and Economics by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• “Why Study ‘Masculinity’ Anyway Perspectives from the Old Days” by Gail Bederman (2011)

In this article published in Culture, Society & Masculinities, Bederman challenges scholars to rethink what it means to study masculinity.

• Lynching Postcards: “Token of a Great Day” by Paramount+ (2015)

This 15-minute documentary examines how Black activists have subverted souvenir postcards from lynchings in the 21st century.