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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786333303321

Autore

Cuordileone Kyle A. <1959-, >

Titolo

Manhood and American political culture in the Cold War / / K.A. Cuordileone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-136-05510-X

1-283-84570-9

1-136-05502-9

0-203-61355-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (313 p.)

Disciplina

306.2/0973/09045

Soggetti

Political culture - United States - History - 20th century

Liberalism - United States - History - 20th century

Masculinity - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

Sex role - Political aspects - United States - History - 20th century

United States Politics and government 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1 Postwar Liberalism and the Crisis of Liberal Masculinity; "Politics 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 Perversion; "Twenty Years of Treason"; Panic on the Potomac; Pinks, Lavenders, and Reds; Adelaide; Chapter 3 Conformity, Sexuality, and the Beleaguered Male Self of the 1950s; Imprisoned in Brotherhood; Manhood and Conformity; The Unmanning of American Men; The Flight from Masculinity

Must You Conform?Chapter 4 Reinventing the Liberal as Superman; Affluence and Its Discontents; Kennedy vs. Nixon; The Liberal as Playboy; The Cult of Toughness; The Counterinsurgent; Afterword; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War explores the meaning of anxiety as expressed through the political and cultural language of the early cold war era. Cuordileone shows how the



preoccupation with the soft, malleable American character reflected not only anti-Communism but acute anxieties about manhood and sexuality. Reading major figures like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Adlai Stevenson, Joseph McCarthy, Norman Mailer, JFK, and many lesser known public figures, Cuordileone reveals how the era's cult of toughness shaped the political dynamics of the time and inspired