Sexual Violence and American Manhood / T. Walter Herbert.
2002
HV6250.4.W65 .H463 2002
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Title
Sexual Violence and American Manhood / T. Walter Herbert.
Author
Herbert, T. Walter, author.
ISBN
9780674273641
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (272 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674273641 doi
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HV6250.4.W65 .H463 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.3
Summary
Taking up topics as diverse and timely as the work of FBI profilers, the pornography debates, feminist analyses of male supremacy as sexual abuse, the ritual meanings of fraternity gang rape, and the interplay of racial and sexual injustice, T. Walter Herbert illuminates the chronic masculine anxieties that seek compensation in fantasies of sexual coercion and in sexual offenses against women. His work offers an unusually clear view of this prevailing convention of insecure and destructive masculinity, which Herbert connects with contemporary analyses of male identity formation, sexuality, and violence and with cultural, political, and ideological developments reaching back to the nation's democratic beginnings. Reading iconic nineteenth-century texts by Whitman, Hawthorne, and Stowe, and pursuing the articulation of their gender logic in Richard Wright's Native Son, Herbert traces a gender ideology of dominance and submission, its persistence in masculine subcultures like the military and big-time football, and its debilitating effects on imaginations and lives in our own day. In materials as diverse as Hannah Foster's post-Revolutionary War novel The Coquette and the Coen brothers' 1996 movie Fargo, this book taps into popular culture and high art alike to outline the logic of American manhood's violent streak--and its dire consequences for a culture with truly democratic and egalitarian ambitions.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue
1 Frontiers of Masculinity
2 Rape as an Activity of the Imagination
3 Becoming a Natural Man
4 Pornographic Manhood
5 Investigations behind the Veil
6 Rape as Redemption
7 Democratic Masculinities
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Prologue
1 Frontiers of Masculinity
2 Rape as an Activity of the Imagination
3 Becoming a Natural Man
4 Pornographic Manhood
5 Investigations behind the Veil
6 Rape as Redemption
7 Democratic Masculinities
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Index