'We Have Certainly Saved Ourselves': Popular Views of Masculinity during the Korean War, 1950-53.
This article addresses the ways in which the American popular media, particularly middle-brow magazines, novels, and films, created a gendered interpretation of the Korean War. On the US home front, cultural commentators linked the purported 1950s crisis of masculinity to concerns that 'coddled' and...
| Publicado en: | Comparative American Studies Vol. 12; no. 4; pp. 316 - 338 |
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Dec2014
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