LEADER 04935nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910454405203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-0700-X 010 $a1-4008-1327-1 010 $a1-282-75336-3 010 $a9786612753367 010 $a1-4008-2246-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822461 035 $a(CKB)1000000000522356 035 $a(EBL)668954 035 $a(OCoLC)179151324 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000255220 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11221646 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000255220 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10212726 035 $a(PQKB)10714902 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC668954 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35998 035 $a(DE-B1597)446099 035 $a(OCoLC)979685325 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822461 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL668954 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031892 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275336 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000522356 100 $a19970826d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTaking it like a man$b[electronic resource] $ewhite masculinity, masochism, and contemporary American culture /$fDavid Savran 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1998 215 $a1 online resource (393 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-01637-2 311 $a0-691-05876-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-363) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tPart I --$tChapter One. The Divided Self --$tChapter Two. Revolution as Performance --$tChapter Three. The Sadomasochist in the Closet --$tPart II --$tChapter Four. Queer Masculinities --$tChapter Five. Man and Nation --$tChapter Six. The Will to Believe --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aFrom the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940's, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism--the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity. Savran begins with the writings and self-mythologization of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctively and ruggedly masculine, their literary art and personal relations with other men in fact allowed them to take up social and psychic positions associated with women and racial minorities. Arguing that this dissident masculinity has become increasingly central to U.S. culture, Savran analyzes the success of Sam Shepard as both writer and star, as well as the emergence of a new kind of action hero in movies like Rambo and Twister. He contends that with the limited success of the civil rights and women's movements, white masculinity has been reconfigured to reflect the fantasy that the white male has become the victim of the scant progress made by African Americans and women. Taking It Like a Man provocatively applies psychoanalysis to history. The willingness to inflict pain upon the self, for example, serves as a measure of men's attempts to take control of their situations and their ambiguous relationship to women. Discussing S/M and sexual liberation in their historical contexts enables Savran to consider not only the psychological function of masochism but also the broader issues of political and social power as experienced by both men and women. 606 $aMen, White$zUnited States 606 $aMasculinity$zUnited States 606 $aMen in popular culture$zUnited States 606 $aMen in literature 606 $aMasochism$zUnited States 606 $aReverse discrimination$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMen, White 615 0$aMasculinity 615 0$aMen in popular culture 615 0$aMen in literature. 615 0$aMasochism 615 0$aReverse discrimination 676 $a305.31/0973 700 $aSavran$b David$f1950-$0882579 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454405203321 996 $aTaking it like a man$92476914 997 $aUNINA