Gilman made a huge attempt to, in a sense, rewrite history by emphasizing and including the white, civilized woman in the discourse. Bederman uses Gilman's work to show how she used her race (white) to demonstrate the superiority of the white woman and therefore the need for equality between men and women but completely excluding other races. In effect, labeling her a racist. She writes: “Gilman was simply proposing replacing one kind of exclusion with another. The inclusion of white women in civilization, by his design, was based on the exclusion of nonwhite men and women” (168). When considering US presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is almost always associated with ideas of imperialism, progressivism, and masculinity. Bederman uses Roosevelt as the perfect example of manhood and exposes his racially dominant form of manhood. She writes, “for Roosevelt, race and gender were inextricably intertwined” (214). Evidence of this can be found in his discussion of Roosevelt's African