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Imperial Brotherhood Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy / Robert D. Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Robert D., 1956-
- Series:
- Culture, politics, and the cold war.
- Culture, Politics, and the Cold War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Political culture.
- Sex role--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex role.
- Masculinity--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Masculinity.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989--Social aspects.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book begins with a question about the Vietnam War. How is it, asks Robert D. Dean, that American policymakers - men who prided themselves on hard-headed pragmatism and shunned "fuzzy" idealism - could have committed the nation to such a ruinous, costly, and protracted war? The answer, he argues, lies not simply in the imperatives of anticommunist ideology or in any reasonable calculation of national interest. At least as decisive in determining the form and content of American Cold War foreign policy were the common background and shared values of its makers, especially their deeply ingrained sense of upper-class masculinity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
- Contents:
- Introduction: culture, gender, and foreign policy reason
- The foreign policy "establishment"
- The reproduction of imperial manhood
- Heroism, bodies, and the construction of elite masculinity
- "Lavender lads" and the foreign policy establishment
- The sexual inquisition and the imperial brotherhood
- Lavender-baiting and the persistence of the sexual inquisition
- John F. Kennedy and the domestic politics of foreign policy
- Manhood, the imperial brotherhood, and the Vietnam war
- Afterword.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-321) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-61376-080-9
- 1-281-10877-4
- 9786611108779
- OCLC:
- 608520115
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