The wimp factor : gender gaps, holy wars, and the politics of anxious masculinity /
Stephen J. Ducat.
- Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.
- ix, 291 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From mama's boy to he-man : developmental and cultural paths to precarious manhood -- The Miss Nancy Man in nineteenth-century America : historical roots of anxious male politics -- The wimp factor : performing masculinity in the presidential career of George Herbert Walker Bush -- Vaginas with teeth and castrating first ladies : fantasies of feminine danger from Eve to Hillary Clinton -- Permutations of the presidential phallus : representations of Bill Clinton, from emasculated house husband to envied stud muffin -- Voting like a man : the psychodynamics of the gender gap in political attitudes -- Gender in a time of holy war : fundamentalist femiphobia and post-9/11 masculinity.
0807043443 (cloth : alk. paper)
2004004809
Masculinity--Political aspects. Politicians--Psychology.--United States Sex role--Political aspects--United States. International relations--Psychological aspects.