Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction: A Short History of Macho Criticism 1 1 “Healthy Nerves and Sturdy Physiques”: Remaking the Male Body of Literary Culture in the 1930s 25 2 Doughfaces, Eggheads, and Softies: Gendered Epithets and American Literary Culture in the 1940s 67 3 Highbrows and Lowbrows: Squares, Beats, Hipsters, White Negroes, New Critics, and American Literary Culture in the 1950s 98 4 Reforming the Hard Body: The Old Left, the Counterculture, and the Masculine Kulturkampf of the 1960s 159 5 The Gender Upheavals of the Late 1960s and Early 1970s: The Black Panthers, Gay Liberation, and Radical Feminism 212 Epilogue: The End of Innuendo 243 Notes 249 Bibliography 269 Index 283 ...