chapter 1 My Weapon Is My Pen: Constructing Secular Jewish Masculinity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. chapter 1 My Weapon Is My Pen: Constructing Secular Jewish Masculinity 22
7. chapter 2 “Crazy” and “Genteel”: Di and Li Trilling and Secular Jewish Masculinity 58
8. chapter 3 Jewish Cold Warriors and “Mature” Masculinity 92
9. chapter 4 World of Our Fathers, World of Our Sons: Irving Howe and Jewish Masculinity on the Left 123
10. chapter 5 “Lady” Critics: Women New York Intellectuals and Feminism 160
11. chapter 6 Midge Decter: The “First Lady of Neoconservatism” 196
12. chapter 7 “ ‘Sissy,’ the Most Dreaded Epithet of an American Boyhood”: Norman Podhoretz and Jewish Masculinity on the Right 229
13. Epilogue 269
14. Notes 279
15. Bibliography 333
16. Index 353