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Ragged dicks : masculinity, steel, and the rhetoric of the self-made man / James V. Catano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Catano, James V., 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men--United States--Psychology.
- Men.
- Masculinity--United States.
- Masculinity.
- Psychology.
- United States.
- Self-reliance--United States.
- Self-reliance.
- Success--United States.
- Success.
- Iron and steel workers--United States.
- Iron and steel workers.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Rhetoric and psychology.
- Men in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 280 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2001]
- Contents:
- Rhetoric, Social Myth, and Psychoanalysis 6
- History, Myth, and Self-Making 10
- 1. Effective Rhetoric/Rhetorical Effects: Maintaining Masculinity 16
- Oedipal and Preoedipal Rhetoric 17
- Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric and Myth 24
- 2. Dominant Myths/Myths of Domination: Masculinity and Agency 35
- Society and Agency, Subjects and Self-Making 36
- Language, Psychoanalysis, and Rhetoric 45
- Social Myths and Sadomasochism 50
- 3. A Father Is Being Beaten: History-Making Selves and Self-Making Histories 58
- Andrew Carnegie and Middle-Class Myth 60
- The Family Romance 62
- Workplace Ethos 71
- Maintaining Doxa Through Mythic Variation 84
- 4. Beyond the Buddy Principle: Individual Struggle and Masculine Solidarity 89
- Work Shifts/Mythic Shifts 91
- Whittaker's Larry Locke: A Story of Labor and Capital 94
- Sadomasochism and Self-Making 102
- Solidarity, Mutuality, and Unionization 105
- Intimacy and Dependency 115
- 5. Moving Up or Moving Out: Separation, Mobility, Agency 121
- Journeyman/Craftsman Masculinity 122
- Company Men and Corporate Power 131
- Immigration and Agency 139
- Ethnicity and Race 143
- 6. Tapping the Heat: Race, Racism, and Erasure 152
- Frederick Douglass's Rhetorics 154
- Racism in the Steel Industry 159
- Race and Self-Making, Separation and Sadism 165
- Race and the Collapse of Steel 171
- Self-Making as Self-Erasure 176
- 7. Making New Metal from Old: Retooling the Self-Made Man 187
- Anti-institutionalism 190
- Talking the Talk 199
- Walking the Walk 203
- Solidarity, Risk Taking, and Hot Metal Men 207.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0809323958
- 080932394X
- OCLC:
- 45320380
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