Notes

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Visibility, Crisis, and the Wounded White Male Body 1
5. 1. Marking Men, Embodying America: John Updike and the Reconstruction of Middle American Masculinity 23
6. 2. Pale Males, Dead Poets, and the Crisis in White Masculinity: Scenes from the Culture Wars 52
7. 3. Traumas of Embodiment: White Male Authorship in Crisis 87
8. 4. Masculinity as Emotional Constipation: Men’s Liberation and the Wounds of Patriarchal Power 128
9. 5. Expression, Repression, and Male Hysteria: Marked Men and the Wounds of a Dammed Masculinity 153
10. Notes 193
11. Bibliography 243
12. Index 261