03640oam 2200697I 450 991078633330332120230617023516.01-136-05510-X1-283-84570-91-136-05502-90-203-61355-410.4324/9780203613559 (CKB)2670000000277266(EBL)1075256(OCoLC)821176001(SSID)ssj0000783717(PQKBManifestationID)11419088(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000783717(PQKBWorkID)10761301(PQKB)10776496(MiAaPQ)EBC1075256(Au-PeEL)EBL1075256(CaPaEBR)ebr10628989(CaONFJC)MIL415820(OCoLC)823726829(FINmELB)ELB134127(EXLCZ)99267000000027726620180706d2005 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrManhood and American political culture in the Cold War /K.A. CuordileoneNew York :Routledge,2005.1 online resource (313 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-92600-9 0-415-92599-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-272) and index.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 MasculinityMust 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; IndexManhood 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 Political cultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryLiberalismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryMasculinityPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centurySex rolePolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryUnited StatesPolitics and government1945-1989Political cultureHistoryLiberalismHistoryMasculinityPolitical aspectsHistorySex rolePolitical aspectsHistory306.2/0973/09045Cuordileone Kyle A.1959-,1521960MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786333303321Manhood and American political culture in the Cold War3761451UNINA