Homosexuality in Cold War America : Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity /
Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on a...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
1997.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: I'm Really a Queen Myself
- pt. 1. Film Noir and the Political Economy of Cold War Masculinity. 1. Masculinizing the American Dream: Discourses of Resistance in the Cold War Era. 2. Resisting the Lure of the Commodity: Laura and the Spectacle of the Gay Male Body. 3. "Real American History": Crossfire and the Increasing Invisibility of Gay Men in the Cold War Era
- pt. 2. Gay Male Cultural Production in the Cold War Era. 4. Tennessee Williams and the Politics of the Closet. 5. Gore Vidal and the Erotics of Masculinity. 6. A Negative Relation to One's Culture: James Baldwin and the Homophobic Politics of Form
- Conclusion: The Work of Transformation.