Pinks, pansies, and punks
Subtitle: the rhetoric of masculinity in American literary culture
By: James Penner
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780253355478; 9780253222510
Subjects: Masculinity in literature; History and criticism; Literature and society; Social classes in literature; Male authors; American literature; Men in literature; Gender identity in literature; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a short history of macho criticism; title: "Healthy nerves and sturdy physiques": remaking the male body of literary culture in the 1930s; title: Doughfaces, eggheads, and softies: gendered epithets and American literary culture in the 1940s; title: Highbrows and lowbrows: squares, beats, hipsters, white negroes, new critics, and American literary culture in the 1950s; title: Reforming the hard body: the old left, the counterculture, and the masculine kulturkampf of the 1960s; title: The gender upheavals of the late 1960s and early 1970s: the Black Panthers, gay liberation, and radical feminism; title: Epilogue: the end of innuendo.