Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface: Sexual Identity on the Postwar Home Front: Denial’s Allure in a Repressive Era xiii
5. 1. Putting Space between Men: Male Relationships in Everyday Photography at Midcentury 1
6. 2. War as a Cultural Timeout: The Gallery and Shifting Boundaries of Male Belonging 41
7. 3. Back to Normal: Cultural Work in the Erasure of John Horne Burns 69
8. 4. What It Took: Gore Vidal and the High Price of Midcentury Manliness 101
9. 5. Mourning the Loss: The “Great Sullenness” and the Contours of American Manhood 143
10. Coda: Bookend for an Era 185
11. Notes 193
12. Bibliography 227
13. Index 253