Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.