Fighting for American Manhood : How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars

Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1(14) The Manly Ideal of Politics and the Jingoist Desire for War 15(28) Cuba and the Restoration of American Chivalry 43(25) ``Honor Comes First'': The Congressional Debate over War 68(20) McKinley's Backbone: The Coercive Power of Gender in Political Debate 88(19) The Spanish-American War and the Martial Ideal of Citizenship 107(26) The Problem of Male Degeneracy and the Allure of the Philippines 133(23) The National Manhood Metaphor and the Fight over the Fathers in the Philippine Debate 156(24) Imperial Degeneracy: The Dissolution of the Imperialist Impulse 180(20) Conclusion: Engendering War 200(9) Notes 209(56) Bibliography 265(32) Index 297