Cuordileone Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-136-05502-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

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 Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1: 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
Chapter 2: Anti-Communism on the Right: The Politics of Perversion
"Twenty Years of Treason"
Panic on the Potomac
Pinks, Reds and Lavenders
Adelaide
Chapter 3: 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?
Chapter 4: Reinventing the Liberal as Superman
Affluence and its Discontents
Kennedy vs. Nixon
The Liberal as Playboy
The Cult of Toughness
The Counterinsurgent
Afterword
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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