Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines

ISBN-13: 9781108737302 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Gregory A. (San Diego State University) Daddis

Opis

Explores how Cold War men's magazines idealized warrior-heroes and sexual-conquerors and normalized conceptions of martial masculinity.

Recenzje

'… Pulp Vietnam examines an overlooked piece of Cold War culture and explains how it helped create real-world forms of violence.' Kyle Burke, Pacific Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction. Warrior heroes and sexual conquerors; 1. Macho pulp and the American cold war man; 2. My father's war: the allure of World War II and Korea; 3. The imagined 'savage' woman; 4. The Vietnamese reality; 5. War and sexual violence come to Vietnam; Conclusion. Male veterans remember their war.