Snowflakes and Snowdrifts: Individualism and Sexuality in AmericaUniversity Press of America, 1986 - Počet stran: 282 This study examines the tension between individualistic values and sex-related expectations in American society and analyzes their impact on many aspects of sexuality in America. Contents: A Society of Individuals; Masculinity and the Main Chance; Invisible Woman; Hypermasculinity; Hypomasculinity; The Spectre of Homosexuality; On Being Gay in a 'Straight' Society; Assimilation versus Pluralism; Transforming Sex-Related Categories; Repudiating Sex-Related Categories; and Confronting an Unliberated World. |
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... linked with the processes of modernization in the West , a fact which has long prompted many European critics to equate it with selfishness and social irresponsibility . While an anti - social interpretation has been advanced in America ...
... linked with the processes of modernization in the West , a fact which has long prompted many European critics to equate it with selfishness and social irresponsibility . While an anti - social interpretation has been advanced in America ...
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... linked with power , which both stems from it in American society and is necessary to consolidate and perpetuate it . Certainly an emphasis upon success encourages men to exercise power based on their own initiative and enter- prise . C ...
... linked with power , which both stems from it in American society and is necessary to consolidate and perpetuate it . Certainly an emphasis upon success encourages men to exercise power based on their own initiative and enter- prise . C ...
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... linked the two poles was successful self - aggrandize- ment . All of these elements became the fundamental constituents of masculinity in a society based on male ascendancy . Not ev- eryone of course shared equally in the power and ...
... linked the two poles was successful self - aggrandize- ment . All of these elements became the fundamental constituents of masculinity in a society based on male ascendancy . Not ev- eryone of course shared equally in the power and ...
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A Society of Individuals | 7 |
Masculinity and the Main Chance | 27 |
Invisible Woman | 49 |
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