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'Impressive in its breadth, its easy style, and its close readings, this compact book is an asset to those of us who teach the literature of war. Phillips's command of her literature is impressive, her exposition readable and brisk.' - Signs
'The carnage of 20th century warfare left more than 100 million dead. But how was such patriotic gore orchestrated? How were men motivated to fight? With a panoramic sweep across the century and keen attention to detail in the literary works that emerged from these wars, Kathy Phillips takes the reader inside the mass mobilization of masculine anxiety, the cult of military masculinity in which ordinary guys desperately need to prove something extraordinary. Her careful and level-headed analysis parallels an increasingly urgent cri de coeur: 'we've been had.' - Michael Kimmel, Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, USA and author of Manhood in America, Editor of Men and Masculinities
'Despite the gains of women, gays, and minorities, it would appear from Kathy Phillips' bracing study of war-making and gender that there is still a lot of work to be done.' - Southern Humanities Review
'Phillips draws on Michael Foucault in her deft analysis of artificial social constructs of gender, and she relies primarily on a wide variety of well-known imaginative literature - war novels, plays, poetry...her textual analysis remains careful and subtle throughout. This book offers thoughtful cultural context for considering contemporary warfare and gender construction.' - Choice
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Book Title: Manipulating Masculinity
Book Subtitle: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature
Authors: Kathy J. Phillips
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-73628-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7195-1Published: 28 July 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62303-3Published: 07 April 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-08971-7
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 227
Topics: North American Literature, Gender Studies, History of Britain and Ireland, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, History of Military