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Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic

Autor Cassandra A. Good
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 apr 2017

Această monografie istorică semnată de Cassandra A. Good explorează o dimensiune adesea ignorată a sociabilității americane timpurii: posibilitatea și funcționalitatea prieteniilor platonice între bărbați și femei. Într-o perioadă în care retorica populară cataloga astfel de relații drept riscante sau imposibile, elita noii națiuni cultiva legături profunde care depășeau sfera domestică. Observăm cum autoarea decodifică limbajul emoțional dens din corespondența epocii — exemplificat prin scrisorile dintre Abigail Adams și Thomas Jefferson — demonstrând că termenii care astăzi par romantici erau, în contextul secolului al XVIII-lea, expresii ale unei afecțiuni intelectuale și politice legitime.

Lucrarea se distinge prin rigoarea analizei surselor primare, de la manuale de etichetă la jurnale personale, oferind o perspectivă nuanțată asupra modului în care genul și puterea interacționau în afara instituției căsătoriei. Apreciem modul în care Cassandra A. Good conectează aceste relații private de idealurile politice ale vremii, susținând că prietenia liber aleasă era un simbol al virtuții republicane. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Overflowing of Friendship – Love Between Men and the Creation of the American Republic de Richard Godbeer vor aprecia modul în care acest volum completează tabloul istoric, extinzând analiza de la legăturile de fraternitate masculină la interacțiunile complexe dintre sexe. În timp ce The Friendships of John Adams, 1774-1801 se concentrează pe rețeaua unui singur lider, Founding Friendships oferă o viziune mai largă, integrând perspective atât din Nordul, cât și din Sudul Statelor Unite, pentru a ilustra o transformare culturală profundă în definiția intimității și a cetățeniei.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190672157
ISBN-10: 0190672153
Pagini: 304
Ilustrații: 20 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte istoricilor și studenților interesați de istoria genului și a culturii politice americane. Cititorul va câștiga o înțelegere mai clară a modului în care relațiile personale au modelat structura socială a tinerei republici. Este o lectură esențială pentru a demonta mitul conform căruia interacțiunile dintre bărbați și femei în secolul al XVIII-lea erau strict limitate la curte sau căsătorie, oferind un context istoric fascinant pentru dezbaterile contemporane despre prietenie.


Despre autor

Cassandra A. Good este o cercetătoare specializată în istoria timpurie a Statelor Unite, cu un interes deosebit pentru intersecția dintre gen, politică și cultură. Prin volumul de față, publicat la Oxford University Press, ea se afirmă ca o voce importantă în istoriografia americană, aducând la lumină complexitatea vieții sociale din perioada revoluționară și post-revoluționară. Expertiza sa în analiza documentelor de arhivă îi permite să reconstruiască rețele sociale complexe, oferind noi perspective asupra figurilor emblematice ale națiunii americane și a modului în care valorile personale au influențat construcția statală.


Descriere

"When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and debated as far back as the birth of the American nation. Indeed, many of the nation's founding fathers had female friends but popular rhetoric held that these relationships were fraught with social danger, if not impossible.Elite men and women formed loving, politically significant friendships in the early national period that were crucial to the individuals' lives as well as the formation of a new national political system, as Cassandra Good illuminates. Abigail Adams called her friend Thomas Jefferson "one of the choice ones on earth," while George Washington signed a letter to his friend Elizabeth Powel with the words "I am always Yours." Their emotionally rich language is often mistaken for romance, but by analyzing period letters, diaries, novels, and etiquette books, Good reveals that friendships between men and women were quite common. At a time when personal relationships were deeply political, these bonds offered both parties affection and practical assistance as well as exemplified republican values of choice, freedom, equality, and virtue. In so doing, these friendships embodied the core values of the new nation and represented a transitional moment in gender and culture.Northern and Southern, famous and lesser known, the men and women examined in Founding Friendships offer a fresh look at how the founding generation defined and experienced friendship, love, gender, and power.

Recenzii

Founding Friendships is a nuanced and insightful examination of both the personal significance and the political salience of what the playwright, poet, and politico Mercy Otis Warren termed 'the soft whispers of private friendship'
Meticulously researched, clearly written, and fascinating ... It will inspire both more debate and more research on the hitherto-neglected topic of inter-gender friendships.
Of all the familial configurations of the founders, 'founding friends' is the most richly provocative. Employing an impressive array of primary sources, Cassandra Good uncovers a hitherto unexplored realm where women were at their most equal and their relationships with male friends represented the purest form of republican ideals. Founding Friendships is a dazzling debut and a major contribution to our knowledge of early national culture.
This beautifully written and insightful study builds on studies of same-sex friendship and marital friendship by turning our attention to cross-sex non-marital friendships during the revolutionary period. Cassandra Good shows that friendships between men and women were common, highly valued, and at the same time feared by citizens of the new republic. She provides a nuanced analysis of the delicate balancing act that friends of the opposite sex had to achieve between what their relationships had to offer and the potential dangers that they posed. This book will fascinate anyone interested in the history of friendship, the family, gender relations, the social and political history of the early republic, and the history of emotions.
Cassandra Good's Founding Friendships is a remarkable account of how friendships between men and women were critical to both the social and political fabric of the new nation. Good's work is an insightful analysis of the flow of power in these male/female relationships that could be threatening to the traditional understanding of a proper social order. Only in 'quiet conversations' could women convey their observations and political opinions. It is a story of the utmost importance to our understanding of the early nineteenth century.
A sensitively-drawn study packed with insights into how men and women understood and experienced their friendships with each other at a time of great social and political change. Founding Friendships is filled with very real people banging up against changing expectations as they navigated the period's highly politicized and thereby rocky social terrain.
beautifully written and insightful ... Good's book further expands our understanding of the tight interweave between personal and public relationships during this formative period of US history, showing the ways in which non-marital friendships between men and women could enrich private lives and also the political realm.

Notă biografică

Cassandra Good serves as an Assistant Professor of History at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. She was formerly the Associate Editor of the Papers of James Monroe at the University of Mary Washington.