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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Penner, James, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

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.

Literature and society.

American literature--Male authors.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 297 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253355478

0253355478

9780253222510

0253222516

OCLC:

491950956