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

by Melissa N. Stein

Book Overview

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"