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Boys don't cry? : rethinking narratives of masculinity and emotion in the U.S.
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- Creator
- edited by Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis
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- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
- ©2002
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 288 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780231506342, 0231120354, 0231120346, 0231506341, 9780231120357, 9780231120340
- OCLC
- ocm47892513, ocn979628408, ocm51615839
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and index.
- Introduction / Milette Shamir and Jennifer Travis -- 1. What Feels an American?: Evident Selves and Alienable Emotions in the New Man's World / Evan Carton -- 2. Loving with a Vengeance: Wieland, Familicide and the Crisis of Masculinity in the Early Nation / Elizabeth Barnes -- 3. "The Manliest Relations to Men": Thoreau on Privacy, Intimacy, and Writing / Milette Shamir -- 4. Manly Tears: Men's Elegies for Children in Nineteenth-Century America / Eric Haralson -- 5. How to be a (Sentimental) Race Man: Mourning and Passing in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk / Ryan Schneider -- 6. The Law of the Heart: Emotional Injury and Its Fictions / Jennifer Travis -- 7. "The Sort of Thing You Should Not Admit": Hemingway's Aesthetics of Emotional Restraint / Thomas Strychacz -- 8. Road Work: Rereading Kerouac's Midcentury Melodrama of Beset Sonhood / Stephen Davenport -- 9. Men's Tears and the Roles of Melodrama / Tom Lutz -- 10. Men's Liberation, Men's Wounds: Emotion, Sexuality, and the Reconstruction of Masculinity in the 1970s / Sally Robinson -- 11. The Politics of Feeling: Men, Masculinity, and Mourning on the Capital Mall / Judith Newton