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Brutes in suits [[electronic resource] ] : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920 / / John Pettegrew
| Brutes in suits [[electronic resource] ] : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920 / / John Pettegrew |
| Autore | Pettegrew John <1959-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.31 |
| Collana | Gender relations in the American experience |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - United States - History
Masculinity - United States - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8018-9172-8
1-4356-9266-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Introduction. The De-Evolutionary Turn in U.S. Masculinity; Darwin and Evolutionary Psychology, Then and Now; John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and Masculinity as a Habit of Mind; "The Caveman within Us" and the Masculinist Culture of Mimicry; 1 Rugged Individualism; Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis: Origins, Composition, and Meanings; Turner's Influence on the Social Psychology of the City; Radical Individualism: Masculinist Art, Angst, and Alienation in the City; Dudism, Cowgirl Feminism, and the Search for Authenticity in the "Old West"; 2 Brute Fictions
The American Literary Genre of Hunting and KillingReading for Plot: Call of the Wild, The Virginian, and the New Male Readership; Irony, Atavism, and Other Variations on the De-Evolutionary Theme; 3 College Football; Thorstein Veblen and the Rise of "Exotic Ferocity" in American College Football; Victor Turner, Stanford Football, and Hypermasculine Liminal Subjects; Clifford Geertz at the Big Game: "Thick Description" of Football as the Cultural Equivalent of War; 4 War in the Head; Civil War Memory, Blood Sacrifice, and Modern American Fighting Spirit Of Rough Riders, Blood Brothers, and Roosevelt the BerserkerWar as Sport for Doughboys, Golden Boys, and Slackers; Postscript: Marine Corps Spirit and the U.S. Warrior Class, 1941-2003; 5 Laws of Sexual Selection; Race, Lynch Law, and the Manly Provocation; Marriage, Cultural Defense in The People v. Chen, and the Heat-of-Passion Defense in Texas; Compulsory Heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach Fable, and Sexual Dimorphism Unbound; Epilogue. Irony, Instinct, and War; Irony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and Masculinity as a "Parodic Tableau Vivant" Instinct, Deep Masculinity, and the Decline of MalesThe Iraq War, Hypermasculinity, and the Metaphor of Disease; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Illustrations |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454466903321 |
Pettegrew John <1959->
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| Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Brutes in suits [[electronic resource] ] : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920 / / John Pettegrew
| Brutes in suits [[electronic resource] ] : male sensibility in America, 1890-1920 / / John Pettegrew |
| Autore | Pettegrew John <1959-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (424 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.31 |
| Collana | Gender relations in the American experience |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - United States - History
Masculinity - United States - History |
| ISBN |
0-8018-9172-8
1-4356-9266-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Introduction. The De-Evolutionary Turn in U.S. Masculinity; Darwin and Evolutionary Psychology, Then and Now; John Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and Masculinity as a Habit of Mind; "The Caveman within Us" and the Masculinist Culture of Mimicry; 1 Rugged Individualism; Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis: Origins, Composition, and Meanings; Turner's Influence on the Social Psychology of the City; Radical Individualism: Masculinist Art, Angst, and Alienation in the City; Dudism, Cowgirl Feminism, and the Search for Authenticity in the "Old West"; 2 Brute Fictions
The American Literary Genre of Hunting and KillingReading for Plot: Call of the Wild, The Virginian, and the New Male Readership; Irony, Atavism, and Other Variations on the De-Evolutionary Theme; 3 College Football; Thorstein Veblen and the Rise of "Exotic Ferocity" in American College Football; Victor Turner, Stanford Football, and Hypermasculine Liminal Subjects; Clifford Geertz at the Big Game: "Thick Description" of Football as the Cultural Equivalent of War; 4 War in the Head; Civil War Memory, Blood Sacrifice, and Modern American Fighting Spirit Of Rough Riders, Blood Brothers, and Roosevelt the BerserkerWar as Sport for Doughboys, Golden Boys, and Slackers; Postscript: Marine Corps Spirit and the U.S. Warrior Class, 1941-2003; 5 Laws of Sexual Selection; Race, Lynch Law, and the Manly Provocation; Marriage, Cultural Defense in The People v. Chen, and the Heat-of-Passion Defense in Texas; Compulsory Heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach Fable, and Sexual Dimorphism Unbound; Epilogue. Irony, Instinct, and War; Irony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and Masculinity as a "Parodic Tableau Vivant" Instinct, Deep Masculinity, and the Decline of MalesThe Iraq War, Hypermasculinity, and the Metaphor of Disease; Notes; Essay on Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Illustrations |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782746203321 |
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Pettegrew John <1959->
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| Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Light it up : the marine eye for battle in the War of Iraq / / John Pettergrew
| Light it up : the marine eye for battle in the War of Iraq / / John Pettergrew |
| Autore | Pettegrew John <1959-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina | 956.704434 |
| Soggetto topico |
Iraq War, 2003-2011
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Psychological aspects Combat - Psychological aspects Video games - Social aspects |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4214-1786-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Force projection and the Marine eye for battle -- Shock and awe and air power -- Network-centric warfare, sensors and total situational awareness -- "Shock and awe: achieving rapid dominance" and the Iraq invasion -- Kill boxes, litening pods and the 3d aircraft wing -- "Keep your eyes out," fair fighting, and memories of killing -- Of war porn and pleasure in killing -- Pornography is the theory, and killing the practice -- Classic Hollywood combat films -- Marine Moto on YouTube -- The Iraq War on television -- Fallujah, first to fight, and Ludology -- Ender's Game and the rise of simulation in military training, 1995-2005 -- From combat films to video games -- The value added to military training -- Fighting in the digitized streets of Beirut -- Counterinsurgency and "turning off the killing switch" -- Empathy, General Mattis and the profound paradox of Marine humanitarianism -- Haditha, acute stress, and the excesses of occupying force -- USMC literary culture and warrior ethos -- "Which way would you run?" -- Posthuman warfighting -- Marines in science fiction and in space -- The post-masculinist Marines and new optics of combat -- The gladiator robot and the critique of remote warfare -- Synthetic vision of war; conclusion and epilogue -- Biopolitics and the costs of war -- Digital culture and the computational marine -- Subjectivity lives and dies. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460325303321 |
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Pettegrew John <1959->
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| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Light it up : the marine eye for battle in the War of Iraq / / John Pettergrew
| Light it up : the marine eye for battle in the War of Iraq / / John Pettergrew |
| Autore | Pettegrew John <1959-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina | 956.704434 |
| Soggetto topico |
Iraq War, 2003-2011
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Psychological aspects Combat - Psychological aspects Video games - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-4214-1786-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Force projection and the Marine eye for battle -- Shock and awe and air power -- Network-centric warfare, sensors and total situational awareness -- "Shock and awe: achieving rapid dominance" and the Iraq invasion -- Kill boxes, litening pods and the 3d aircraft wing -- "Keep your eyes out," fair fighting, and memories of killing -- Of war porn and pleasure in killing -- Pornography is the theory, and killing the practice -- Classic Hollywood combat films -- Marine Moto on YouTube -- The Iraq War on television -- Fallujah, first to fight, and Ludology -- Ender's Game and the rise of simulation in military training, 1995-2005 -- From combat films to video games -- The value added to military training -- Fighting in the digitized streets of Beirut -- Counterinsurgency and "turning off the killing switch" -- Empathy, General Mattis and the profound paradox of Marine humanitarianism -- Haditha, acute stress, and the excesses of occupying force -- USMC literary culture and warrior ethos -- "Which way would you run?" -- Posthuman warfighting -- Marines in science fiction and in space -- The post-masculinist Marines and new optics of combat -- The gladiator robot and the critique of remote warfare -- Synthetic vision of war; conclusion and epilogue -- Biopolitics and the costs of war -- Digital culture and the computational marine -- Subjectivity lives and dies. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797607803321 |
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Pettegrew John <1959->
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||
| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Light it up : the marine eye for battle in the War of Iraq / / John Pettergrew
| Light it up : the marine eye for battle in the War of Iraq / / John Pettergrew |
| Autore | Pettegrew John <1959-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Disciplina | 956.704434 |
| Soggetto topico |
Iraq War, 2003-2011
Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Psychological aspects Combat - Psychological aspects Video games - Social aspects |
| ISBN | 1-4214-1786-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Force projection and the Marine eye for battle -- Shock and awe and air power -- Network-centric warfare, sensors and total situational awareness -- "Shock and awe: achieving rapid dominance" and the Iraq invasion -- Kill boxes, litening pods and the 3d aircraft wing -- "Keep your eyes out," fair fighting, and memories of killing -- Of war porn and pleasure in killing -- Pornography is the theory, and killing the practice -- Classic Hollywood combat films -- Marine Moto on YouTube -- The Iraq War on television -- Fallujah, first to fight, and Ludology -- Ender's Game and the rise of simulation in military training, 1995-2005 -- From combat films to video games -- The value added to military training -- Fighting in the digitized streets of Beirut -- Counterinsurgency and "turning off the killing switch" -- Empathy, General Mattis and the profound paradox of Marine humanitarianism -- Haditha, acute stress, and the excesses of occupying force -- USMC literary culture and warrior ethos -- "Which way would you run?" -- Posthuman warfighting -- Marines in science fiction and in space -- The post-masculinist Marines and new optics of combat -- The gladiator robot and the critique of remote warfare -- Synthetic vision of war; conclusion and epilogue -- Biopolitics and the costs of war -- Digital culture and the computational marine -- Subjectivity lives and dies. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819824503321 |
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Pettegrew John <1959->
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| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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