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Pulp Vietnam - War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines (Hardcover)
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Pulp Vietnam - War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines (Hardcover)
Series: Military, War, and Society in Modern American History
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In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp
Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the
attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who
fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho
pulps' - boasting titles like Man's Conquest, Battle Cry, and
Adventure Life - portrayed men courageously defeating their enemies
in battle, while women were reduced to sexual objects, either
trivialized as erotic trophies or depicted as sexualized villains
using their bodies to prey on unsuspecting, innocent men. The
result was the crafting and dissemination of a particular version
of martial masculinity that helped establish GIs' expectations and
perceptions of war in Vietnam. By examining the role that popular
culture can play in normalizing wartime sexual violence and
challenging readers to consider how American society should move
beyond pulp conceptions of 'normal' male behavior, Daddis
convincingly argues that how we construct popular tales of
masculinity matters in both peace and war.
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