Pinks, pansies, and punks : the rhetoric of masculinity in American literary culture /

Pinks, pansies, and punks : the rhetoric of masculinity in American literary culture /

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A cultural history of macho criticism.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Penner, James, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > Male authors > History and criticism.
Men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a short history of macho criticism
  • "Healthy nerves and sturdy physiques": remaking the male body of literary culture in the 1930s
  • Doughfaces, eggheads, and softies: gendered epithets and American literary culture in the 1940s
  • Highbrows and lowbrows: squares, beats, hipsters, white negroes, new critics, and American literary culture in the 1950s
  • Reforming the hard body: the old left, the counterculture, and the masculine kulturkampf of the 1960s
  • The gender upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the Black Panthers, gay liberation, and radical feminism
  • Epilogue: the end of innuendo.

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