Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (American Cultures)
Editorial Reviews
Review
K.A. Cuordileone has written a remarkably timely book exploring how anxieties about gender lay at the core of Cold War thinking. The book is a wonderfully researched, highly engaging investigation of the many ways discourse about masculinity shaped early Cold War ideology.
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-Robert Griswold, author of Fatherhood in America: A History
In this nuanced but powerful book, Cuordileone explores how concerns about gender, sexuality, and especially manhood transformed the language of American politics, in the process, recasting American liberalism into a pragmatic, fighting faith. Focusing on the years from the onset of the Cold War in the late 1940s, Cuordileone skillfully links politics, cultural history, and social change as she highlights the tensions that still define and plague America's political culture.
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-Daniel Horowitz, author of Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique
This book examines the fascinating confluence of fears of communism and of sexual disorder in the early cold war. Its provocative analysis of political rhetoric, popular books, and feature films is a major contribution to the scholarship on cold war political culture.
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-Kathryn S. Olmsted, author of Red Spy Queen: A Biography of Elizabeth Bentley
Book Description
When Americans talked about politics in the 1950s, they always seemed to be talking about sex. Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War argues that the highly gendered and sexualized language of cold war politics was the product of specific anxieties that centered around post-war notions of masculinity. Investigating the major cultural contributions of figures like Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Joseph McCarthy, JFK, and Richard Nixon, Cuordileone offers a sexy reinterpretation of cold war politics.
Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (American Cultures)
Manhood and American Political Culture in the Cold War (American Cultures),K.A. Cuordileone,Routledge,0415926009,1945-1989,20th century,Americas (North Central South West Indies),Anthropology - Cultural,History,History & Theory - General,History - General History,Liberalism,Masculinity,Political Science,Political aspects,Political culture,Politics and government,Politics/International Relations,United States,American history: postwar, from c 1945 -,History / General,Men's studies,Political science & theory,USA,c 1945 to c 1960,c 1960 to c 1970
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