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Creating the modern man : American magazines and consumer culture, 1900-1950 /

Pendergast, Tom.

Creating the modern man : American magazines and consumer culture, 1900-1950 / Tom Pendergast. - Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri Press, c2000. - x, 289 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index.

1. Old-Fashioned Manhood in a Newfangled Medium. 2. African American Masculinity and the Great Debate: Rescuing Black Masculinity from the Success Ethic. 3. "Horatio Alger Doesn't Work Here Any More": The Emergence of Modern Masculinity, 1915-1935. 4. From the Ground Up: Reclaiming the Basis for Masculinity in African American Magazines, 1910-1949. 5. A Pleasing Personality Wins the Day: The Cultural Hegemony of Modern Masculinity.

0826212808 (alk. paper)

00023460


Masculinity--History--United States--20th century.
Body image in men--United States.
Men in mass media--United States.
Men in popular culture--United States.
Consumption (Economics)--United States.

HQ1090.3 / .P45 2000

305.31/0973

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