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Author Penner, James, 1964-

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

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 297 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Summary A cultural history of macho criticism.
Subject American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature. (OCoLC)fst00807113
American literature -- Male authors. (OCoLC)fst00807204
Gender identity in literature. (OCoLC)fst00939607
Literature and society. (OCoLC)fst01000096
Masculinity in literature. (OCoLC)fst01011040
Men in literature. (OCoLC)fst01016054
Social classes in literature. (OCoLC)fst01122375
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Penner, James, 1964- Pinks, pansies, and punks. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011 9780253355478 (DLC) 2010017543 (OCoLC)491950956
ISBN 9780253004956 (electronic bk.)
0253004950 (electronic bk.)
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