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Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contempor
- Publication Date
- 1998-04-19
- Pages
- 380
- ISBN
- 9780691058764
- Subject Area
- Social Science, Psychology
- Publication Name
- Taking It like a Man : White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Discrimination & Race Relations, Men's Studies, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Psychopathology / Personality Disorders
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Item Weight
- 20 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 380 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691058768
ISBN-13
9780691058764
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1116843
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
380 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Taking It like a Man : White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture
Subject
Discrimination & Race Relations, Men's Studies, Popular Culture, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Psychopathology / Personality Disorders
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Psychology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
97-039856
Reviews
" Taking It Like a Man combines cultural analysis with psychoanalysis to examine masochism and the production of masculinity in the postwar United States--a challenging and provocative strategy that yields exciting, insightful readings of a variety of materials." --Susan Jeffords, University of Washington
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
305.31/0973
Synopsis
From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man , David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism--the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity. Savran begins with the writings and self-mythologization of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctively and ruggedly masculine, their literary art and personal relations with other men in fact allowed them to take up social and psychic positions associated with women and racial minorities. Arguing that this dissident masculinity has become increasingly central to U.S. culture, Savran analyzes the success of Sam Shepard as both writer and star, as well as the emergence of a new kind of action hero in movies like Rambo and Twister . He contends that with the limited success of the civil rights and women's movements, white masculinity has been reconfigured to reflect the fantasy that the white male has become the victim of the scant progress made by African Americans and women. Taking It Like a Man provocatively applies psychoanalysis to history. The willingness to inflict pain upon the self, for example, serves as a measure of men's attempts to take control of their situations and their ambiguous relationship to women. Discussing S/M and sexual liberation in their historical contexts enables Savran to consider not only the psychological function of masochism but also the broader issues of political and social power as experienced by both men and women.
LC Classification Number
HQ1090.3.S28 1998
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