American Masculinity under Clinton : Popular

Whereas many of the men of Reagan's '80s seemed stereotypically hypermasculine, a host of '90s images suggest a new phase of more sensitive manhood. In the Clinton era, both academic and popular writers suggested that a "crisis of masculinity" had taken r

Brenton J. Malin is Assistant Professor in the Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts at San Francisco State University.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(5)

Note

6

(1)

Bill Clinton and the Crisis of Masculinity

7

(18)

The Crisis of Masculinity

11

(4)

Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Penis

15

(5)

From Robert Bly to Cultural Studies

20

(2)

Notes

22

(3)

Little Big Men and Softhearted Hard Bodies: Homophobia as Hyper and Hypomasculinity

25

(36)

Having Your Machismo and Beating It, Too

29

(16)

Little Big Men

45

(12)

Little Big Man Clinton

57

(2)

Notes

59

(2)

Classified and Declassified: Cultural Capital and Class Anxiety in New Male Sons and Fathers

61

(36)

New Male Idiots: Parody as Middle-Class Distance

65

(13)

Working-Class Experience and Middle-Class Taste

78

(14)

National Dads and National Children

92

(3)

Notes

95

(2)

The Exotic White Other: Otherworldly Whiteness from Clinton to Fox Mulder

97

(48)

White Amnesia and Apologia

101

(20)

Policing Whiteness

121

(20)

Presidential Whiteness and the Performance of Identity

141

(2)

Notes

143

(2)

9/11 and After: Masculinity, Citizenship, and National Crisis

145

(44)

Homosocial Ritual and Masculine Crisis: CBS's 9/11

148

(13)

Sensitivity vs. Cowardice: Masculinity and Citizenship in the Oughts

161

(10)

The New Hypersensitive Killers: Vic Mackey and Tony Soprano

171

(15)

Facing up to Masculinity

186

(1)

Notes

187

(2)

Conclusion

189

(6)

Notes

194

(1)

References

195

(10)

Index

205

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