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The wimp factor : gender gaps, holy wars, and the politics of anxious masculinity / Stephen J. Ducat.

By: Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.Description: ix, 291 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0807043443 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.31 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ1090 .D83 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
From mama's boy to he-man : developmental and cultural paths to precarious manhood -- The Miss Nancy Man in nineteenth-century America : historical roots of anxious male politics -- The wimp factor : performing masculinity in the presidential career of George Herbert Walker Bush -- Vaginas with teeth and castrating first ladies : fantasies of feminine danger from Eve to Hillary Clinton -- Permutations of the presidential phallus : representations of Bill Clinton, from emasculated house husband to envied stud muffin -- Voting like a man : the psychodynamics of the gender gap in political attitudes -- Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From mama's boy to he-man : developmental and cultural paths to precarious manhood -- The Miss Nancy Man in nineteenth-century America : historical roots of anxious male politics -- The wimp factor : performing masculinity in the presidential career of George Herbert Walker Bush -- Vaginas with teeth and castrating first ladies : fantasies of feminine danger from Eve to Hillary Clinton -- Permutations of the presidential phallus : representations of Bill Clinton, from emasculated house husband to envied stud muffin -- Voting like a man : the psychodynamics of the gender gap in political attitudes -- Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity.

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