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Imperial brotherhood : gender and the making of Cold War foreign policy /

An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dean, Robert D., 1956- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2001.
Colección:Culture, politics, and the Cold War.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: culture, gender, and foreign policy reason
  • The foreign policy "establishment"
  • The reproduction of imperial manhood
  • Heroism, bodies, and the construction of elite masculinity
  • "Lavender lads" and the foreign policy establishment
  • The sexual inquisition and the imperial brotherhood
  • Lavender-baiting and the persistence of the sexual inquisition
  • John F. Kennedy and the domestic politics of foreign policy
  • Manhood, the imperial brotherhood, and the Vietnam war
  • Afterword.