TY - BOOK ID - 2709229 TI - A republic of men : the American founders, gendered language, and patriarchal politics PY - 1998 SN - 0814763529 0585425116 0814747132 0814747140 9780585425115 9780814747131 9780814747148 9780814763520 PB - New York London New York University Press DB - UniCat KW - Men -- United States -- History -- 18th century. KW - Patriarchy -- United States -- History -- 18th century. KW - Political culture -- United States -- History -- 18th century. KW - Political science -- United States -- History -- 18th century. KW - Sex role -- United States -- History -- 18th century. KW - Social role -- United States -- History -- 18th century. KW - Political culture KW - Political science KW - Men KW - Patriarchy KW - Sex role KW - Social role KW - Government - U.S. KW - Law, Politics & Government KW - Political Institutions & Public Administration - U.S., General KW - History KW - Role, Social KW - Gender role KW - Androcracy KW - Patriarchal families KW - Human males KW - Social psychology KW - Social status KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Fathers KW - Families KW - Male domination (Social structure) KW - Patrilineal kinship KW - Human beings KW - Males KW - Effeminacy KW - Masculinity KW - United States KW - 18th century KW - Role (Sociology) KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2709229 AB - What role did manhood play in early American Politics? In A Republic of Men, Mark E. Kann argues that the American founders aspired to create a "republic of men" but feared that "disorderly men" threatened its birth, health, and longevity. Kann demonstrates how hegemonic norms of manhood–exemplified by "the Family Man," for instance--were deployed as a means of stigmatizing unworthy men, rewarding responsible men with citizenship, and empowering exceptional men with positions of leadership and authority, while excluding women from public life. Kann suggests that the founders committed themselves in theory to the democratic proposition that all men were created free and equal and could not be governed without their own consent, but that they in no way believed that "all men" could be trusted with equal liberty, equal citizenship, or equal authority. The founders developed a "grammar of manhood" to address some difficult questions about public order. Were America's disorderly men qualified for citizenship? Were they likely to recognize manly leaders, consent to their authority, and defer to their wisdom? A Republic of Men compellingly analyzes the ways in which the founders used a rhetoric of manhood to stabilize American politics. ER -