Table of Contents

Preface Mary Beth Norton Acknowledgments Introduction: New Men Thomas A. FosterPart I. Settlement 1 Gentlemen and Soldiers John Gilbert McCurdy 2 Indian and English Dreams Ann Marie PlanePart II. Warfare 3 "We are men" Tyler Boulware 4 Real Men Susan AbramPart III. Atlantic 5 "Blood and Lust" 6 "Banes of Society" and "Gentlemen of Strong Natural Parts" Natalie A. Zacek 7 "Impatient of Subordination" and "Liable to Sudden Transports of Anger" Trevor BurnardPart IV. Enactment 8 "Effective Men" and Early Voluntary Associations in Philadelphia, 1725-1775 Jessica Choppin Roney 9 "Strength of the Lion ... Arms Like Polished Iron" Kathleen M. BrownPart V. Revolution 10 Of Eloquence "Manly" and "Monstrous" Benjamin H. Irvin 11 John Adams and the Choice of Hercules Thomas A. Foster 12 "Play the Man ... for Your Bleeding Country" Revolutionary War Janet Moore Lindman Afterword: Contending Masculinities in Early America Toby L. Ditz About the Contributors Index

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Considers the conditions of early America which shaped and were shaped by ideals of masculinity

About the Author

Thomas A. Foster is Professor of History at Howard University, in Washington, DC, and author of Sex and the Eighteenth-Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, and Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past. He is also editor of Long Before Stonewall: Histories of Same-Sex Sexuality (NYU Press, 2007), New Men: Manliness in Early America (NYU Press, 2011), and Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. Foster tweets at @ThomasAFoster.pasting

Reviews

"In lucid prose, the contributors map the contours of early American manhood from first encounters through the Revolution, and from the marriage bed to the battlefield. The results demonstrate the continuing vitality of gender as a category of analysis as well as the fascinating, sometimes terrifying dynamism of the colonial Atlantic world." Jane Kamensky, author of Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England