The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (Theories of Contemporary Culture)

In This Book The Author Examines Representations Of The Vietnam Experience In Film, Oral History, Novels, And Short Stories And Finds That The Media Have Helped Remasculinize, Or Regender Social Relations. She Argues That The War, Instead Of Leading To A Reexamination Of The Us Value System, Has Spurred A Revitalization Of The Traditional Values Of Capitalism And Bourgeois Individualism.--amazon.com. Fact, Fiction, And The Spectacle Of War -- That Men Without Women Trip: Masculine Bonding And The Ideology Of Collectivity -- False Labors: Compensatory Reproduction And The Narration Of Vietnam -- Do We Get To Win This Time?: Reviving The Masculine -- Act Before The Fighting Breaks Out: The Feminization Of Loss -- The Remasculinization Of America. Susan Jeffords. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 206-212. Elucidates gendered structures of representation through the films, narratives, criticism, novels, essays, and short stories that were written, mostly by men and veterans