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The wimp factor : gender gaps, holy wars, and the politics of anxious masculinity /

"In this exploration of how male anxiety has come to define our political culture, Stephen J. Ducat shows the link between the desperate macho strutting of male politicians, the gender gap in voting behavior, and fundamentalist holy wars - three striking political phenomena of the twenty-first...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ducat, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boston, MA : Beacon Press, ©2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From mama's boy to he-man : developmental and cultural paths to precarious manhood
  • The Miss Nancy Man in nineteenth-century America : historical roots of anxious male politics
  • The wimp factor : performing masculinity in the presidential career of George Herbert Walker Bush
  • Vaginas with teeth and castrating first ladies : fantasies of feminine danger from Eve to Hillary Clinton
  • Permutations of the presidential phallus : representations of Bill Clinton, from emasculated house husband to envied stud muffin
  • Voting like a man : the psychodynamics of the gender gap in political attitudes
  • Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity.