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"This book is a brilliant meditation on homophobia, misogyny, narrative, and their interrelations in cold-war American culture." - Henry Abelove, F.O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University
"This highly readable book offers an excellent recapitulaton of an American nightmare. The McCarthy era institutionalised a harsh oppression of gay people. Social paranoia translated into cultural repression. Van den Oever shows in his amazing analyses of well-chosen novels and the Hitchcock-movie Psycho how sexual paranoia pervaded American culture until the sixties. His interpretations are original, compelling, and totally convincing. An amazing piece of work." - Maaike Meijer, professor of Gender Studies, Maastricht University
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Book Title: Mama's Boy
Book Subtitle: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture
Authors: Roel Oever
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137295088
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27405-2Published: 24 September 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44549-3Published: 10 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29508-8Published: 24 September 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 209
Topics: Gender Studies, North American Literature, Literature, general, Twentieth-Century Literature, American Culture, Cultural Studies