Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American C
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- Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contempor
- ISBN
- 9780691058764
- Publication Year
- 1998
- Type
- Textbook
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- Paperback
- Subject Area
- Gender Issues
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Taking It like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture
- Item Height
- 254mm
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Item Width
- 197mm
- Item Weight
- 567g
- Number of Pages
- 380 Pages
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From the Beat poets' incarnation of the white Negro through to Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timonthy McVeigh, white men in the USA have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In this book, 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-mythologizing of the Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctly 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 US culture, Savran analyzes the success of Sam Shepard, both as 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. The book 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. Discussin 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.
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Princeton University Press
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9780691058764
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Gender Issues
Publication Name
Taking It like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
1998
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
380 Pages
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254mm
Item Width
197mm
Item Weight
567g
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