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Playboys in Paradise - Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-Style in Modern America (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Playboys in Paradise - Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-Style in Modern America (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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Post-war America was an exciting time. It was an age characterized
by backyard barbecues and beach parties, mai-tai cocktails and Ford
Mustangs, high school hops, Hawaiian shirts and Hugh Hefner's
Playboy empire. This book charts middle-class America's move
towards an ethos of conspicuous consumption and sexual license
during the fifties and sixties. Focusing on two of the period'smost
visible icons -- the swinging bachelor and the vibrant teenager --
this book looks at the interconnected changes that took place for
American youth culture and masculinity as consumption and leisure
established themselves as the dominant features of middle-class
life. The author draws on a wide variety of popular examples--men's
magazines, fashion and style, books, film and music--to argue that
the bachelor and the teenager were complementary and interrelated
stereotypes that shaped America's youth. Magazines such as Esquire
and Playboy, and bands like the Beach Boys, framed and shaped a new
meaning of the young American male that contrasted sharply with
previous values of sobriety and moderation. This book discusses the
images and icons that shaped masculinity in particular. By focusing
on the changes both in masculine identity and in the form and
representation of youth culture, American life is looked at from a
fresh and innovative perspective.
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