Manipulating Masculinity - War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

"Manipulating Masculinity" uses literature from World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq wars to argue that when a society labels broadly human traits "feminine," that society can more easily manipulate men to war. All men are bound to detect some of those traits in themselves--and then fear that they have strayed into a feminine, inferior realm. If a society convinces men that fighting is essentially manly, it entices men to war simply to prove that they are not their sisters (sissy, wimp, wuss). Western cultural attitudes toward sex also fuel wars by encouraging the displacement of sexuality into violence, by fostering titillation in combination with guilt and its accompanying need for self-punishment (which war abundantly supplies), and by defining sexual orientations so as to provoke self-doubt in everyone.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	K Phillips
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	227
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-7195-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Promotions
LSN:	1-4039-7195-1
Barcode:	9781403971951

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