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Description of  Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture after World War II (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)

0813950953 epub Postwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into civilian life, told to put the war behind them with cheer and confidence. Many veterans struggled, openly or privately, with this transition. Others in society wondered what the war had wrought in them. As Erin Lee Mock shows in this insightful book, the explosive potential of men became a central concern of postwar American culture. This wariness of veterans settled into a generalized anxiety over mens inherent violence and hypersexuality, which increasingly came to define masculinity. Read more