Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity

by Robert J. Corber

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Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on and transcended left-wing opposition to the Cold War cultural and political consensus. Combining readings of novels, plays, and films of the period with...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822319640

ISBN13:9780822319641

Release Date:May 1997

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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Gay & Lesbian Gay & Lesbian Studies Nonfiction Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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