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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Savran |
| ISBN: | 0691058768 9780691058764 0691016372 9780691016375 |
| OCLC Number: | 37567432 |
| Description: | 382 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Divided Self -- Revolution as Performance -- The Sadomasochist in the Closet -- Queer Masculinities -- Man and Nation -- The Will to Believe. |
| Responsibility: | David Savran. |
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Abstract:
From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism - the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity.
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- Men, White -- United States.
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- Men in popular culture -- United States.
- Men in literature.
- Masochism -- United States.
- Reverse discrimination -- United States.
- Blancs -- États-Unis.
- Masculinité -- États-Unis.
- Hommes dans la culture populaire -- États-Unis.
- Hommes dans la littérature.
- Masochisme -- États-Unis.
- Discrimination positive -- États-Unis.
- Männlichkeit.
- Kultur.
- USA.
- Weiße.

