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Manhood and the American Renaissance.

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From: The Nation
Date: 19890710
Author:Kimmel, Michael S.

D. H. Lawrence, writing about the nineteenth-century novel, called the American man "hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." He thought he was describing the national character, something distinctly American. But it wasn't a cultural character he was describing, it was a gender: masculinity. One of the things we've learned from women's studies is how central gender is in the construction of identity-personal and national. Gender may be the single most important feature that determines character, surpassing (or underlying) even class and race; one cannot understand American society ...

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