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The wimp factor : gender gaps, holy wars, and the politics of anxious masculinity

Title
The wimp factor : gender gaps, holy wars, and the politics of anxious masculinity / Stephen J. Ducat.
Author
Ducat, Stephen.
Publication
Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.

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ix, 291 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
From mama's boy to he-man : developmental and cultural paths to precarious manhood -- The Miss Nancy Man in nineteenth-century America : historical roots of anxious male politics -- The wimp factor : performing masculinity in the presidential career of George Herbert Walker Bush -- Vaginas with teeth and castrating first ladies : fantasies of feminine danger from Eve to Hillary Clinton -- Permutations of the presidential phallus : representations of Bill Clinton, from emasculated house husband to envied stud muffin -- Voting like a man : the psychodynamics of the gender gap in political attitudes -- Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity.
Call Number
JFD 04-18004
ISBN
0807043443 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
2004004809
OCLC
54528940
Author
Ducat, Stephen.
Title
The wimp factor : gender gaps, holy wars, and the politics of anxious masculinity / Stephen J. Ducat.
Imprint
Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 04-18004
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