Taking it like a man : white masculinity, masochism, and contemporary American culture
著者
書誌事項
Taking it like a man : white masculinity, masochism, and contemporary American culture
(Princeton paperbacks)
Princeton University Press, c1998
- : cloth
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全18件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-363) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
「Nielsen BookData」 より