Imperial brotherhood
Subtitle: gender and the making of Cold War foreign policy
By: Robert D. Dean.
Series: Culture, politics, and the cold war
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Amherst
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: Masculinity -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Sex role -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Political culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 -- Social aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-321) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: culture, gender, and foreign policy reason; title: The foreign policy "establishment"; title: The reproduction of imperial manhood; title: Heroism, bodies, and the construction of elite masculinity; title: "Lavender lads" and the foreign policy establishment; title: The sexual inquisition and the imperial brotherhood; title: Lavender-baiting and the persistence of the sexual inquisition; title: John F. Kennedy and the domestic politics of foreign policy; title: Manhood, the imperial brotherhood, and the Vietnam war; title: Afterword.