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Boys don't cry? : rethinking narratives of masculinity and emotion in the U.S.

Author: Milette Shamir; Jennifer Travis
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Milette Shamir; Jennifer Travis
ISBN: 0231120346 9780231120340 0231120354 9780231120357
OCLC Number: 47892513
Description: xiii, 288 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: What feels an American? Evident selves and alienable emotions in the new man's world / Evan Carton --
Loving with a vengeance: Wieland, familicide and the crisis of masculinity in the early nation / Elizabeth Barnes --
"The manliest relations to men": Thoreau on privacy, intimacy, and writing / Milette Shamir --
Manly tears: men's elegies for children in nineteenth-century America / Eric Haralson --
How to be a (sentimental) race man: mourning and passing in W.E.B. Du Bois's The souls of Black folk / Ryan Schneider --
The law of the heart: emotional injury and its fictions / Jennifer Travis --
" The sort of thing you should not admit": Hemingway's aesthetics of emotional restraint / Thomas Strychacz --
Road work: rereading Kerouac's midcentury melodrama of beset sonhood / Stephen Davenport --
Men's tears and the roles of melodrama / Tom Lutz --
Men's liberation, men's wounds: emotion, sexuality, and the reconstruction of masculinity in the 1970s / Sally Robinson --
The politics of feeling: men, masculinity, and mourning on the Capital Mall / Judith Newton.
Responsibility: edited by Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis.
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