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The Making of Hobo Masculinities.

The following article summarizes several discursive productions of the US hobo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to expose the role the hobo played historically in the making of idyllic American manhood. After the crash of the railroad boom in 1873, the hobo was produced...

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Published in:Canadian Review of American Studies Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 25 - 44
Main Author: Tapley, Heather
Format: Article
Published: University of Toronto Press 2014
Subjects:
Tramps
Rogues & vagabonds
Masculinity
Social Darwinism
United States history, 1865-1921
United States social conditions
20th century United States history
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