Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-415-92600-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 312 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 457 g

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 a reinvention of the liberal as a cold warrior.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cuordileone, K. A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Methodenlehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1: Postwar Liberalism and the Crisis of Liberal MasculinityPolitics 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 PerversionTwenty Years of Treason Panic on the Potomac Pinks, Reds and LavendersAdelaide Chapter 3: Conformity, Sexuality and the Beleaguered Male Self of the 1950s Imprisoned in BrotherhoodManhood and Conformity The Unmanning of American MenThe Flight from MasculinityMust You Conform?Chapter 4: Reinventing the Liberal as SupermanAffluence and its DiscontentsKennedy vs. NixonThe Liberal as PlayboyThe Cult of ToughnessThe CounterinsurgentAfterword NotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

K.A. Cuordileone is Associate Professor of History, New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York.