TAKING IT LIKE A MAN ebook download David Savran

Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture

From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940s, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism--the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity.

Savran begins with the writings and self-mythologization of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctively and ruggedly masculine, their literary art and personal relations with other men in fact allowed them to take up social and psychic positions associated with women and racial minorities

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Title of ebook: Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture
ISBN: 9781400822461
parent-ISBN: 9780691016375
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 380
Published: 02-2001
Released online for download: 02-15-2001
Author of eBook: Savran, David

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