Pinks, Pansies, and Punks : The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture.
by
Penner, James.
Title
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Pinks, Pansies, and Punks : The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture.
Author
:
Penner, James.
ISBN
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9780253004956
Personal Author
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Penner, James.
Physical Description
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1 online resource (318 pages)
Contents
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Short History of Macho Criticism -- 1 "Healthy Nerves and Sturdy Physiques": Remaking the Male Body of Literary Culture in the 1930s -- 2 Doughfaces, Eggheads, and Softies: Gendered Epithets and American Literary Culture in the 1940s -- 3 Highbrows and Lowbrows: Squares, Beats,Hipsters, White Negroes, New Critics, and American Literary Culture in the 1950s -- 4 Reforming the Hard Body: The Old Left, the Counterculture, and the Masculine Kulturkampf of the 1960s -- 5 The Gender Upheavals of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s: The Black Panthers, Gay Liberation, and Radical Feminism -- Epilogue: The End of Innuendo -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract
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Pinks, Pansies, and Punks charts the construction of masculinity within American literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s. Penner documents the emergence of "macho criticism," and explores how debates about "hard" and "soft" masculinity influenced the class struggles of the 1930s, anti-communism in the 1940s and 1950s, and the clash between the Old Left and the New Left in the 1960s. By extending literary culture to include not just novels, plays, and poetry, but diaries, journals, manifestos, screenplays, and essays on psychology and sociology, Penner unveils the multiplicity of gender attitudes that emerge in each of the decades he addresses.
Local Note
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
Subject Term
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Masculinity in literature.
Men in literature.
Social classes in literature.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Status |
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| IYTE Library | E-Book | 1222213-1001 | PS173 .M36 -- P46 2010 EB | Ebrary E-Books |