Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War

Name: Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War
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ISBN: 9780415926003

ISBN-10: 0415926009

ISBN-13: 9780415926003

Edition: 2005

Authors: K. A. Cuordileone

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When Americans talked about politics in the 1950s, they always seemed to be talking about sex. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War argues that the highly gendered and sexualized language of cold war politics was the product of specific anxieties that centered around post-war notions of masculinity. Investigating the major cultural contributions of figures like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Joseph McCarthy, JFK, and Richard Nixon, Cuordileone offers a sexy reinterpretation of cold war politics.

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/30/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Prologue



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



Anti-Communism on the Right: The Politics of Perversion


"Twenty Years of Treason"


Panic on the Potomac


Pinks, Lavenders, and Reds


Adelaide



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?



Reinventing the Liberal as Superman


Affluence and Its Discontents


Kennedy vs. Nixon


The Liberal as Playboy


The Cult of Toughness


The Counterinsurgent


Afterword


Notes