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Pulp Vietnam : war and gender in Cold War men's adventure magazines /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daddis, Gregory A., 1967- (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Military, war, and society in modern American history.
Subjects:
Masculinity > United States > History > 20th century.
Men's magazines > United States > History > 20th century.
Adventure magazines.
Cold War.
Adventure magazines
Masculinity
Men's magazines
United States
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half-title
  • Series information
  • Title page
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Warrior Heroes and Sexual Conquerors
  • Pulp Fictions: Men's Magazines in Cold War America
  • Militarizing Manhood
  • War as Sexual Conquest
  • Chapter 1 Macho Pulp and the American Cold War Man
  • Cold War Anxieties
  • Selling a New American Man
  • The Red Menace
  • The Sexual Menace
  • Chapter 2 My Father's War: The Allure of World War II and Korea
  • Veterans Remember
  • Cold War ''Rambo''
  • The Meritocracy of War
  • The Ugly Face of War
  • Chapter 3 The Imagined ''Savage'' Woman
  • The Red Seductress
  • The Exotic ''Oriental''
  • Gendered Fantasies
  • The Sexual Warrior
  • Chapter 4 The Vietnamese Reality
  • The New Face of War
  • Battling the Cong
  • American Warriors
  • The Undiscovered Adventure
  • Chapter 5 War and Sexual Violence Come to Vietnam
  • A Population at War
  • ''War Culture''
  • Rape as More Than a Weapon
  • The Long-Haired Warriors Fight Back
  • Plates
  • Conclusion: Male Veterans Remember Their War
  • Remembering War
  • Redefining Masculinity and the ''Adventure'' of War