Primary Sources: Gender & Sexuality in America: Masculinity & Men

"... Look magazine writer Eleanor Harris, in response to suggestions of readers, addressed the topic of bachelorhood by presenting testimonies of selected men on the reasons they remained unmarried and conclusions of authorities regarding these explanations."

By MARGARET MEAD
The New York Times Magazine
Copyright New York Times Company Feb 10, 1957
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2009)

"...collection of 22 provocative essays on sexuality, gender, and politics -- all written by gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer men."

"The article focuses on the increase in the gap between how long a man and a woman are expected to live in the U.S. It details the implications of the increasing gap. It argues that men are the more reckless and neglected sex. It explains why coronary heart disease has multiplied among men during their most productive years."

"This project is digitizing and making freely available the first seven years of the unpublished journals of Philip C. Van Buskirk.The resulting archive is free and publicly available for reading and searching and will eventually also be available to interested scholars to annotate, index, and tag in XML. The original journals are housed in the Special Collections of the University of Washington Libraries, available only on site or on microfilm via interlibrary loan."

"Philip Clayton Van Buskirk was an American sailor, soldier, and pioneer. Born in 1833 to upper-class parents, one of which was the Maryland Secretary of State, Van Buskirk was well-off and educated but spent much of his life as part of the, mostly illiterate, maritime working-class. In 1846, at the age of 12, Van Buskirk joined the U.S. Marines following his father's suicide. In 1852, he spent time as a drummer on Admiral Matthew C. Perry's expedition to open Japan to foreign trade. In 1853, he sailed to the Bonin Islands to claim them for the U.S. aboard the USS Plymouth. He also served as a Confederate soldier during the Civil War but was captured by Union soldiers and sent to a prison camp in Ohio in 1862. Van Buskirk eventually made the journey to Washington to settle on the Snohomish River. He died in Bremerton, WA in 1903. In 1851, Van Buskirk began an extensive record of his life in journals, which soon grew to many volumes. His incredible writings provide a unique and vivid picture of everyday life among the American working class of the 1800s."

By DOROTHY BARCLAY
The New York Times Magazine
Copyright New York Times Company Apr 28, 1957
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2009)

Published November 26, 2012
FoxNews.com
By Suzanne Venker

" In the following Collier’s article from 1952, Dr. Judson T. and Mary G. Landis invoked Mead’s work to investigate contradictory assessments of the “typical” American male as either dominant and aggressive or blundering and dependent. The authors examined findings of social scientists that compared male and female survival rates, achievement, and sexual performance. "