Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s Hardcover - 2005 - 1st Edition
by James Gilbert
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While the 1950s have been popularly portrayed--on television and in the movies and literature--as a conformist and conservative age, the decade is better understood as a revolutionary time for politics, economy, mass media, and family life. Magazines, films, newspapers, and television of the day scrutinized every aspect of this changing society, paying special attention to the lifestyles of the middle-class men and their families who were moving to the suburbs newly springing up outside American cities. Much of this attention focused on issues of masculinity, both to enforce accepted ideas and to understand serious departures from the norm. Neither a period of "male crisis" nor yet a time of free experimentation, the decade was marked by contradiction and a wide spectrum of role models. This was, in short, the age of Tennessee Williams as well as John Wayne.
In Men in the Middle, James Gilbert uncovers a fascinating and extensive body of literature that showcases the problems and possibilities of expressing masculinity in the 1950s. Drawing on the biographies of men who explored manhood either in their writings or in their public personas, Gilbert examines the stories of several of the most important figures of the day-revivalist Billy Graham, playwright Tennessee Williams, sociologist David Riesman, sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, Playboy literary editor Auguste Comte Spectorsky, and TV-sitcom dad Ozzie Nelson-and allows us to see beyond the inherited stereotypes of the time. Each of these stories, in Gilbert's hands, adds crucial dimensions to our understanding of masculinity the 1950s. No longer will this era be seen solely in terms of the conformist man in the gray flannel suit or the Marlboro Man.Details
- Title Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s
- Author James Gilbert
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
- Date July 1, 2005
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780226293240 / 0226293246
- Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
- Dimensions 9.44 x 6.11 x 0.93 in (23.98 x 15.52 x 2.36 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Sex & Gender: Masculine
- Library of Congress subjects Men - United States - Social conditions, Men - United States - History - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004021636
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.310
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