The Age of the Bachelor (eBook)

Creating an American Subculture

Howard P. Chudacoff (Autor)

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2020
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22201-1 (ISBN)

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In this engaging new book, Howard Chudacoff describes a special and fascinating world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a significant population of single men migrated to American cities. Rejecting the restraints and dependence of the nineteenth-century family, bachelors found sustenance and camaraderie in the boarding houses, saloons, pool halls, cafes, clubs, and other institutions that arose in response to their increasing numbers. Richly illustrated, anecdotal, and including a unique analysis of The National Police Gazette (the most outrageous and popular men's publication of the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century), this book is the first to describe a complex subculture that continues to affect the larger meanings of manhood and manliness in American society. The figure of the bachelor--with its emphasis on pleasure, self-indulgence, and public entertainment--was easily converted by the burgeoning consumer culture at the turn of the century into an ambiguously appealing image of masculinity. Finding an easy reception in an atmosphere of insecurity about manhood, that image has outdistanced the circumstances in which it began to flourish and far outlasted the bachelor culture that produced it. Thus, the idea of the bachelor has retained its somewhat negative but alluring connotations throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Chudacoff's concluding chapter discusses the contemporary "e;singles scene"e; now developing as the number of single people in urban centers is again increasing. By seeing bachelorhood as a stage in life for many and a permanent status for some, Chudacoff recalls a lifestyle that had a profound impact on society, evoking fear, disdain, repugnance, and at the same time a sense of romance, excitement, and freedom. The book contributes to gender history, family history, urban history, and the study of consumer culture and will appeal to anyone curious about American history and anxious to acquire a new view of a sometimes forgotten but still influential aspect of our national past.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.12.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 24 halftones, 9 tables
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: adolescence • Adult • Advertising • African Americans • americans • amusement park • Amusement parks • Apartment • Apartment hotel • Apprenticeship • Baby Boom • Bachelor • ballparks • barbershops • Bartender • blue-plate special • Boarders • breach of promise suits • brothel • cabarets • Cafeteria • Career • Chicago, Illinois • clubs and associations • Cohabitation • Competition • Concert saloon • Consumerism • Counterculture • courtship • Crime Story (TV series) • culture of the united states • Dance Hall • dance halls • demographic theory • Demography • Deviance • dime museums • dormitory • eating arrangements • Eddie Cantor • Ehrenreich, Barbara • Employment • Entertainment • Family • Family Law • Family Support • fire companies • Forum magazine • fraternal order • Frontier • gathering place • George Ade • Germans • Goffman, Erving • Groves, Ernest • Gymnasiums • Helen Jewett • Holland, Hilda • Homosexuality • Household • Hugh Hefner • husband • hustler • Illinois • Illustration • Immigration • income • Individualism • Institution • insurance • Irish • Italians • Jessel, George • Jews • Kansas City, Missouri • Killrain, Jake • Kingsdale, Jon • Late Marriage • laundries • Lecture • lithuanians • lodging • loneliness • Lower East Side • Manliness (book) • marital status • marriage • Marriageable age • marriage age • Maryland • Masculinity • Massachusetts • meal • Michael Kimmel • middle class • minority group • Mr. • Mrs. • music • New Haven, Connecticut • newspaper • New York World • Nickname • nuisance • Occupation • Oliver, Charles • Patriarchy • Peer Group • percentage • physical culture • Physician • Physicians • Place of birth • Politics • pool halls • popular culture • Progressive Era • Promiscuity • Prostitution • psychologist • Publication • Public bathing • Recreation • Remarriage • residence • Residential patterns • Restaurant • saloons and taverns • seduction suits • Sex Ratio • sexual attraction • sexual intercourse • shaving • sibling • Social Class • Social Club • Social Group • Society • Society of the United States • Sociology • sporting culture • spouse • standard of living • Subculture • Tax • The Other Hand • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Upper Class • urbanization • Vaudeville • war • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22201-0 / 0691222010
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22201-1 / 9780691222011