Insurance for White Masculinity: Methods of Control to Ensure a Dominan

Insurance for White Masculinity: Methods of Control to Ensure a Dominant Race The nineteenth-century saw great changes within America and from these changes an ideology was created in an effort of understanding and unification among white men. Changes were occurring so rapidly that they could not be digested and readily accepted, therefore opposition to these rose very significantly. The nineteenth century saw for a great number of political changes as the black race began to collect rights, the arrival of immigrants on an unprecedented scale, the colonization of the remaining world, and the change of women’s roles. White women started to become more educated and moved out of the house and into workplace disrupting the domestic order that was essential to keeping men’s lives stable as Tocqueville claims that the â€Å"regularity of [women’s] affection was the safeguard of American men’s lives† and without this regularity a hysteria and insanity developed. (Barker-Benfield 47) White women were immediately labeled as threat to the lineage of white men because the civilized woman began to be considered a â€Å"Race of Hysteria.† (Briggs 1) Women were considered hysterical as it was believed that as a civilization became more civilized it became a â€Å"breeding place for insanity† and these ideals were pushed upon women because their roles in society were significantly changing and men were not apt to accept these changes readily. (Barker 52) White Masculinity was developed out of the idea of making sure that white women would not become a â€Å"racial threat† to white men’s lineage; white women were supposedly becoming civilized and hysterical at the same time and then began to significantly lose in population because of these problems to the other... ...aura. â€Å"The Race of Hysteria: ‘Overcivilization’ and the ‘Savage’ Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Obstetrics and Gynecology.† American Quarterly 52.2 (2000). . - Evans, Dylan â€Å"An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis†. - Goodis, David. The Moon in the Gutter. Great Britain: Serpent’s Tail, 1983. - Lansbury, Coral. â€Å"Gynecology, Pornography, and the Antivivisection Movement.† Rutgers University, (Spring 1985): 23 pars. - Nelson, Dana D.. National Manhood. London: Duke UP, 1998. - Rabate, Jean-Michel. The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Cambridge UP, 2003. - Salinger, J.D.. The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. - Thompson, Jim. The Nothing Man. New York: Vintage Crime, 1954. Insurance for White Masculinity: Methods of Control to Ensure a Dominan Insurance for White Masculinity: Methods of Control to Ensure a Dominant Race The nineteenth-century saw great changes within America and from these changes an ideology was created in an effort of understanding and unification among white men. Changes were occurring so rapidly that they could not be digested and readily accepted, therefore opposition to these rose very significantly. The nineteenth century saw for a great number of political changes as the black race began to collect rights, the arrival of immigrants on an unprecedented scale, the colonization of the remaining world, and the change of women’s roles. White women started to become more educated and moved out of the house and into workplace disrupting the domestic order that was essential to keeping men’s lives stable as Tocqueville claims that the â€Å"regularity of [women’s] affection was the safeguard of American men’s lives† and without this regularity a hysteria and insanity developed. (Barker-Benfield 47) White women were immediately labeled as threat to the lineage of white men because the civilized woman began to be considered a â€Å"Race of Hysteria.† (Briggs 1) Women were considered hysterical as it was believed that as a civilization became more civilized it became a â€Å"breeding place for insanity† and these ideals were pushed upon women because their roles in society were significantly changing and men were not apt to accept these changes readily. (Barker 52) White Masculinity was developed out of the idea of making sure that white women would not become a â€Å"racial threat† to white men’s lineage; white women were supposedly becoming civilized and hysterical at the same time and then began to significantly lose in population because of these problems to the other... ...aura. â€Å"The Race of Hysteria: ‘Overcivilization’ and the ‘Savage’ Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Obstetrics and Gynecology.† American Quarterly 52.2 (2000). . - Evans, Dylan â€Å"An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis†. - Goodis, David. The Moon in the Gutter. Great Britain: Serpent’s Tail, 1983. - Lansbury, Coral. â€Å"Gynecology, Pornography, and the Antivivisection Movement.† Rutgers University, (Spring 1985): 23 pars. - Nelson, Dana D.. National Manhood. London: Duke UP, 1998. - Rabate, Jean-Michel. The Cambridge Companion to Lacan. Cambridge UP, 2003. - Salinger, J.D.. The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1945. - Thompson, Jim. The Nothing Man. New York: Vintage Crime, 1954.