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G. Reel - National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906 - 9781403971654 - V9781403971654
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National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906

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Description for National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906 Hardcover. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBL; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 224 x 25. Weight in Grams: 476.
This book analyzes the National Police Gazette, the racy New York City tabloid that gained an audience among men and boys of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Looking at how images of sex, crime, and sports reflected and shaped masculinities during this watershed era, this book amounts to a story of what it meant to be an American man at the beginning of the American Century.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403971654
SKU
V9781403971654
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About G. Reel
Guy Reel is Assistant Professor of Mass Communication, Winthrop University.

Reviews for National Police Gazette and the Making of the Modern American Man, 1879-1906
"A fine addition to the growing literature on gender and popular culture. By celebrating the titillating boundary crossing of men and women behaving badly, the Gazette served to define the boundaries of acceptability in fin de siècle America. Reel makes that celebration, and those boundaries, more than mere abstractions or cultural tropes." - Michael Kimmel, SUNY-Stony Brook, and author of ... Read more

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