Pinks, pansies, and punks : the rhetoric of masculinity in American literary culture / James Penner.

Author/creator Penner, James, 1964-
Format Book
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
American literature--Male authors. --History and criticism.
Men in literature.
Masculinity in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Gender identity in literature.
Literature and society--United States. --History. --20th century.

Contents Introduction: a short history of macho criticism -- "Healthy nerves and sturdy physiques": remaking the male body of literary culture in the 1930s -- Doughfaces, eggheads, and softies: gendered epithets and American literary culture in the 1940s -- Highbrows and lowbrows: squares, beats, hipsters, white negroes, new critics, and American literary culture in the 1950s -- Reforming the hard body: the old left, the counterculture, and the masculine kulturkampf of the 1960s -- The gender upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the Black Panthers, gay liberation, and radical feminism -- Epilogue: the end of innuendo.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010017543
ISBN9780253355478 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0253355478 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780253222510 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0253222516 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS173.M36 P46 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold