Title Pinks, pansies, and punks : the rhetoric of masculinity in American literary culture / James Penner

Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: a short history of macho criticism -- "Healthy nerves and sturdy physiques": remaking the male body of literary culture in the 1930s -- Doughfaces, eggheads, and softies: gendered epithets and American literary culture in the 1940s -- Highbrows and lowbrows: squares, beats, hipsters, white negroes, new critics, and American literary culture in the 1950s -- Reforming the hard body: the old left, the counterculture, and the masculine kulturkampf of the 1960s -- The gender upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the Black Panthers, gay liberation, and radical feminism -- Epilogue: the end of innuendo Summary A cultural history of macho criticism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- Male authors -- History and criticism Men in literature. Masculinity in literature. Social classes in literature. Gender identity in literature. Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American literature American literature -- Male authors Gender identity in literature Literature and society Masculinity in literature Men in literature Social classes in literature United States Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780253004956 0253004950

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