Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity Book

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments


Introduction: I'm Really a Queen Myself


PART 1
Film Noir and the Political Economy of Cold War Masculinity

1
Masculinizing the American Dream: Discourses of Resistance in the Cold War Era


2
Resisting the Lure of the Commodity: Laura and the Spectacle of the Gay Male Body


3
“Real American History”: Crossfire and the Increasing Invisibility of Gay Men in the Cold War Era



PART 2
Gay Male Cultural Production in the Cold War Era

4
Tennessee Williams and the Politics of the Closet


5
Gore Vidal and the Erotics of Masculinity


6
A Negative Relation to One's Culture: James Baldwin and the Homophobic Politics of Form



Conclusion: The Work of Transformation


Notes


Index