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  • Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture by James Penner book cover
  • Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture by James Penner book cover
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Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture

by James Penner

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Masculinity, politics, and American literary culture

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Masculinity, politics, and American literary culture

James Penner examines how competing ideas of masculinity shaped American literary culture from the 1930s through the 1970s. The book traces the rise of “macho criticism” alongside debates over “hard” and “soft” masculinity, connecting those arguments to class conflict, mid-century anti-communism, and tensions between the Old and New Left. Its archive reaches beyond canonical literary forms to include diaries, journals, manifestos, screenplays, and writing in psychology and sociology. That wide frame foregrounds the varied—and often politically charged—gender attitudes circulating across four decades of U.S. cultural life.

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  • Readers of American literary and cultural criticism
  • Students and scholars of masculinity and gender studies
  • Those interested in connections between literature, left politics, and anti-communism

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MasculinityAmerican literary cultureGender and classAnti-communismOld Left and New Left

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Pinks, Pansies, and Punks charts the construction of masculinity within American literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s. Penner documents the emergence of "macho criticism," and explores how debates about "hard" and "soft" masculinity influenced the class struggles of the 1930s, anti-communism in the 1940s and 1950s, and the clash between the Old Left and the New Left in the 1960s. By extending literary culture to include not just novels, plays, and poetry, but diaries, journals, manifestos, screenplays, and essays on psychology and sociology, Penner unveils the multiplicity of gender attitudes that emerge in each of the decades he addresses.
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