Manipulating Masculinity: War and Gender in Modern British and American Literature

by Kathy J. Phillips

Book Overview

In this study, Kathy Janette Phillips uses literature from World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War and the Iraq wars to argue that labelling broadly human traits 'feminine' helps societies manipulate men to war. Phillips also shows that damning pleasure fuels wars by encouraging the displacement of sexuality into violence.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230623034
• ISBN13: 9780230623033
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"