The wimp factor
Subtitle: gender gaps, holy wars, and the politics of anxious masculinity
By: Stephen J. Ducat
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780807043448; 9780807043455
Subjects: Homme politique; Psychology; Mannelijkheid; Relations internationales; Sekseverschillen; Masculinity; Psychological aspects; Masculinité; Politici; International relations; Rôle selon le sexe; Politicians; Aspect politique; Psychologie; Sex role; Genre; Political aspects
Description: "In this exploration of how male anxiety has come to define our political culture, Stephen J. Ducat shows the link between the desperate macho strutting of male politicians, the gender gap in voting behavior, and fundamentalist holy wars - three striking political phenomena of the twenty-first century. He argues that a direct association exists between the magnitude of a man's femiphobia - that is, his terror of being perceived as feminine - and his tendency to embrace right-wing political opinions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From mama's boy to he-man : developmental and cultural paths to precarious manhood; title: The Miss Nancy Man in nineteenth-century America : historical roots of anxious male politics; title: The wimp factor : performing masculinity in the presidential career of George Herbert Walker Bush; title: Vaginas with teeth and castrating first ladies : fantasies of feminine danger from Eve to Hillary Clinton; title: Permutations of the presidential phallus : representations of Bill Clinton, from emasculated house husband to envied stud muffin; title: Voting like a man : the psychodynamics of the gender gap in political attitudes; title: Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity.