TIM BOVAY'S DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

From Tim, who swears he knows how to post to the blog, but just doesn't choose to at this precise moment:
--My Historiography question concerns the social factors left out Hoganson's book
namely eugenics.  Hoganson refers to Darwinian theorists, but not to the social
factors bolstering the superiority of a "white culture" that may have also
influenced the conquering of "inferior foreign people" incapable of self rule.
The fears of jingoes regarding masculinity as well as many social evils walked
hand in hand with the perceptions of the Darwinian theorists who would eventually
take on the mantle of eugenicists.
--As for my historiography question, Hoganson paints a gender duality inherent in
the time period and a the warring political factions, arbitration being feminine
and war being masculine.  The question therefore is, is a gender dichotomy
necessary to a narrative regarding gender concerns?  And i have a follow up to
that question when we discuss.