Format:
Online-Ressource (393 p.)
ISBN:
9780691058764
Content:
From 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 1940s, 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-d
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400822461
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691058764
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Taking It Like a Man : White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture
Language:
English
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