Manhood and American political culture in the Cold War / / Kyle A. Cuordileone
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| Autore: |
Cuordileone K. A (Kyle A.), <1959->
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| Titolo: |
Manhood and American political culture in the Cold War / / Kyle A. Cuordileone
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Routledge, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (313 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.2/0973/09045 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government 1945-1989 |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Manhood and American political culture in the Cold War |
| ISBN: | 1-136-05510-X |
| 1-283-84570-9 | |
| 1-136-05502-9 | |
| 0-203-61355-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814715603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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