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100 1 $aRobinson, Douglas,$d1954-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81151199
245 10 $aNo less a man :$bmasculist art in a feminist age /$cDoug Robinson.
260 $aBowling Green, Ohio :$bBowling Green State University Popular Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
300 $a323 pages :$bmusic ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aIncludes 5 songs by Douglas Robinson.
504 $aBibliography: p. 297-305.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aForeword / Sherrie Gradin -- Introduction: Popular Culture and the Emancipatory Critic -- Pt. 1. Spenser. Ch. 1. The Hardboiled Hero. Ch. 2. The Liberal Hero. Ch. 3. Violence and Need. Ch. 4. The Missing Mother -- Pt. 2. Rambo. Ch. 5. From First Blood to First Blood. Ch. 6. The Hurt, Betrayed Son. Ch. 7. Surrender -- Pt. 3. Springsteen. Ch. 8. The Dark Street. Ch. 9. Healing the Father. Ch. 10. Displaced Mothers -- Conclusion: The Hero Myth.
520 $aRobert B. Parker's detective Spenser. John Rambo, created by David Morrell and played on the silver screen by Sylvester Stallone. Bruce Springsteen. What do these three men have in common?
520 8 $aAll three, Doug Robinson claims, are central figures in a new form of popular men's art: art that explores what it means to be a man in a feminist age. Art that seeks an escape from patriarchal machismo through the surrender of defenses. Art that Robinson calls "masculist," concerned with men's liberation, allied to both the women's movement and the profeminist men's movement.
520 8 $aRobinson develops a three-stage transformation myth out of Joseph Campbell's studies of hero mythology: the road of trails, on which repressive "normality" is tested and found lacking (Spenser); the descent into the belly of the whale, a symbolic death in which defensive rational ego-structures are surrendered (the Rambo of First Blood); and regeneration and return, the gradual restructuring or rebirth of masculinity in a potentially redemptive transformation (Springsteen).
520 8 $aThrough close readings of these three figures, Robinson argues that more is going on among American men than meets the casual eye - and that much of what is going on is reflected in the most popular of our art forms, detective novels, action movies, and rock music.
520 8 $aProdded not only by feminist critiques and the social changes they have wrought, but also by the very failures that make the traditional man's life unlivable, men are increasingly longing - and looking - for a new masculinity, one based in a man's, and a community's full humanity.
650 0 $aMen$zUnited States$xAttitudes.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010101444
650 0 $aMen$xPsychology$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMen in popular culture$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMasculinity$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107270
650 0 $aMasculinity in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006169
650 0 $aMasculinity in motion pictures$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMasculinity in music$zUnited States.
650 0 $aMen's movement$zUnited States.
650 0 $aPatriarchy$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSex differences (Psychology)$zUnited States.
650 0 $aSex role$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111587
650 0 $aFeminism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008120308
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