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Sexual Prisoners of War: Masculinity in War and Peace Sexual Prisoners of War: Masculinity in War and Peace
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“What has Unmanned the American Man?”: The Postwar Masculinity Crisis “What has Unmanned the American Man?”: The Postwar Masculinity Crisis
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The Masculinity Crisis and Male Heterosexuality The Masculinity Crisis and Male Heterosexuality
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“The American Male is a Sexual Disaster”: Changing Standards and Sexual Problems “The American Male is a Sexual Disaster”: Changing Standards and Sexual Problems
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Five “An Age of Sexual Ambiguity”: Homosexuality and National Character in the Postwar United States
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Two “A Missing Sense of Maleness”: Male Heterosexuality, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, and the Crisis of American Masculinity
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Published:July 2005
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Abstract
Kinsey's study encouraged a national referendum on sexual behavior, prompted new research on related topics, and provided ammunition for social reformers of all stripes. The report also affected Americans' understanding of gender norms and relations, focusing popular attention on the relation between ideal codes of masculinity and actual male sexual behavior, and promoting discussion of what it meant to be a man in the atomic age. Few kinds of men—heterosexual, white, able-bodied, and financially comfortable—held unquestioned title to masculinity, with more problematic modes of masculinity represented by those whose sexuality, race, body, or class placed them outside of the normative ideal. However, the postwar years saw attention paid to maleness that was unprecedented in its scope. Theories of marriage and family, patterns of class formation and consumption, and mass culture all focused popular and expert attention on the shifting boundaries and meanings of masculinity.
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