@article{280759,
      recid = {280759},
      author = {Herbert, T. Walter},
      title = {Sexual violence and American manhood /},
      publisher = {Harvard University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, MA :},
      pages = {256 p. ;},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {Taking up topics as diverse 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 a 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. 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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/280759},
}