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Male Beauty: Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film, and Physique Magazines

Male Beauty: Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film, and Physique Magazines

Krauss, Kenneth

Paperback

General Gender StudiesGLBTQIA StudiesMen's Studies

ISBN10: 1438450001
ISBN13: 9781438450001
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2015
Pages: 366
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.

In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male gendering that deliberately contrasted, and often clashed with, previous constructs. This new postwar masculinity was in large part a product of the war itself. The need to include those males who fought the war as men-many of whom were far younger than what traditional male gender definitions would accept as manly-extended the range of what could and should be thought of as masculine. Kenneth Krauss adds to this analysis one of the first in-depth examinations of how males who were sexually attracted to other males discovered this emerging concept of manliness via physique magazines.

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