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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines by Gregory A Daddis is accessibly written research into the role that men's pulp magazines played in shaping men, masculinity, and in particular the negative aspects of both. The examples are far more numerous and disturbing than I had expected even though I vaguely remember these magazines from my youth. Though Daddis makes clear, on more than one occasion, that whatever causality exists is just part of a larger cultural tapestry there is no doubt that the portrayals in the fiction and the "advice" in the nonfiction contributed to how many men of the period came to see masculinity, war, and women. These pulp images reflected much of the mainstream concern that men were being emasculated and society was being feminized, so to what degree these publications led or followed the concepts, they definitely contributed to bringing them to the blue collar and military men. While many of the stories and columns were infuriating and startling, and I'm guessing that most readers will find the ones that speak to them the most, I found some of the material that masqueraded as advice or help columns to be most disturbing. For example, in a publication from 1966 a quote reads (this quote occurs early in the book and colored my reading of the rest of the book): "Many women, young ones in particular, are 'sexually reversed' in their actions, that is whatever they say can be taken to mean the opposite. 'I absolutely don't want to sleep with you' for example, means precisely the opposite." The quote is from the magazine itself, not Daddis paraphrasing. In other words, men are being encouraged to rape women, in popular national publications aimed at young men. 1966 folks, this is not ancient history and those same readers then raised boys of their own, so the cycle repeats, only the message has been reshaped and distributed with a bit more subtlety, though the results remain the same and have, over the past three years, lost any claim to subtlety. This is highly recommended for readers who read sociological texts on masculinity as well as any reader who wants to better understand how to take in any form of popular culture actively rather than passively. While much of what Daddis does here requires the distance of time to grasp, the basic processes can and should be used when we watch, listen to, or read any type of popular culture. We can no longer be passive consumers molded by the work, we must engage and make conscious decisions about what we internalize and what we reject. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this compelling evaluation of Cold War popular culture, Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. The 'macho pulps' - boasting titles like Man's Conquest, Battle Cry, and Adventure Life - portrayed men courageously defeating their enemies in battle, while women were reduced to sexual objects, either trivialized as erotic trophies or depicted as sexualized villains using their bodies to prey on unsuspecting, innocent men. The result was the crafting and dissemination of a particular version of martial masculinity that helped establish GIs' expectations and perceptions of war in Vietnam. By examining the role that popular culture can play in normalizing wartime sexual violence and challenging readers to consider how American society should move beyond pulp conceptions of 'normal' male behavior, Daddis convincingly argues that how we construct popular tales of masculinity matters in both peace and war. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A personal note is that I can remember the tail-end of this period on the cusp of being an adolescent, when I'd go with my dad to the barber shop, and while there would be comics for the kids, they'd also be mixed with magazines like this. Since I always read ahead of my age group I think my response was "really?" Even then I knew wish-fulfillment when I saw it.
Highly recommended. ( )