Artikel
Gender topography of the fifties : Mickey Spillane and the Post-World-War-II masculinity crises
Verfasst von:
Dietze, Gabriele
in:
Amerikastudien
Heidelberg:
1998
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645 - 656 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Dietze, Gabriele |
| In: | Amerikastudien |
| Jahr: | 1998 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This paper views the fifties as a period of conflicting gender role definitions between decent suburban domesticity and a new sexual discourse replete with pin-ups, sex-stars, and Kinsey's findings. A predominantly male readership sought refuge in Michey Spillane's best-selling hardboiled novels. His he-man fairy tales negotiate postwar machsimo, family bread-winning, domesticity, fertility fever, and sexuality. the hero's female antagonist, the dangerous and deadly pin-up beauty, provides the matrix on which 1950s masculinity crises imprint their complex and conflicting fears and desires | |
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