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Male armor : the soldier-hero in contemporary American culture / Jon Robert Adams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adams, Jon Robert, 1968-
- Series:
- Cultural frames, framing culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Men--United States.
- Men.
- Masculinity--United States.
- Masculinity.
- War in literature.
- Masculinity in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (175 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- He intends Male Armor to provide a corrective to the public's continued investment in the war enterprise as a guarantor both of masculinity and, by extension, of the nation.
- Contents:
- Introduction : soldier's heart
- "The great general was a has-been" : the World War II hero in 1950s conformist culture
- The bridge to Vietnam : the war story and AWOL masculinity
- Envelope, please : the metonymic male
- Winning this time : the war that wasn't
- Conclusion : time warp.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-151) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283807135
- 1283807130
- 9780813933979
- 0813933978
- OCLC:
- 826657904
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