Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War

ISBN-13: 9780415926003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 312 str.

Kyle A. Cuordileone

Opis

When Americans talked about politics in the 1950s, this title argues, they always seemed to be talking about sex. Political discourse was inundated with references to soft and hard, to masochism and impotency, to thrusts and ecstacies. Cuordileone argues that the gendered and sexualized language of Cold Warriors was produced by specific anxieties about masculinities. To support this interpretation she offers readings of figures like Norman Mailer, Arthur Schlesinger and JFK.

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1: Postwar Liberalism and the Crisis of Liberal MasculinityPolitics in an Age of Anxiety Masculinity in Crisis? Not Left, Not Right, but a Vital Center Chapter 2: Anti-Communism on the Right: The Politics of PerversionTwenty Years of Treason Panic on the Potomac Pinks, Reds and LavendersAdelaide Chapter 3: Conformity, Sexuality and the Beleaguered Male Self of the 1950s Imprisoned in BrotherhoodManhood and Conformity The Unmanning of American MenThe Flight from MasculinityMust You Conform?Chapter 4: Reinventing the Liberal as SupermanAffluence and its DiscontentsKennedy vs. NixonThe Liberal as PlayboyThe Cult of ToughnessThe CounterinsurgentAfterword NotesIndex

O autorze

K.A. Cuordileone is Associate Professor of History, New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York.