American Masculinity under Clinton: Popular Media and the Nineties "Crisis of Masculinity", Vol. 7
Whereas many of the men of Reagan's '80s seemed stereotypically hypermasculine, a host of '90s images suggest a new phase of more sensitive manhood. In the Clinton era, both academic and popular writers suggested that a "crisis of masculinity" had taken root - one that had men questioning traditional male ideas and seeking new identities. This book explores the conflicted ways in which this seemingly new climate of masculinity was negotiated. From Bill Clinton to The Promise Keepers and...
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Malin (broadcast and electronic communication arts, San Francisco State U.) examines the more sensitive model of manhood represented in the media in the 1990s, especially in contrast to the hyper-masculinity of the Reagan years in America. In doing so he unpacks the complex relationship between popular culture and presidential politics, particularly that portion of politics that prefers candidates who openly opt for cosmetic medical procedures. He describes the complex relationship between Clinton (as candidate and president) with the perceptions of the media, the role of the variants of homophobia, cultural capital and class anxiety in the so-called "New Male," the "otherworldly" maleness allowed in politics in parallel with that allowed in the media, and the changes wrought by 9/11. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ch. 1Bill Clinton and the crisis of masculinity7Ch. 2Little big men and softhearted hard bodies : homophobia as hyper and hypomasculinity25Ch. 3Classified and declassified : cultural capital and class anxiety in new male sons and fathers61Ch. 4The exotic white other : otherworldly whiteness from Clinton to Fox Mulder97Ch. 59/11 and after : masculinity, citizenship, and national crisis145
