Write Like a Man - Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals

A spellbinding chronicle of mid-century America, Write like a Man shows how a combative and intellectually grounded vision of Jewish manhood contributed to the masculinization of intellectual life and shaped some of the most important political and cultural debates of the postwar era.

About the author

Ronnie A. Grinberg is associate professor of history and a core faculty member of the Schusterman Center for Judaic and Israel Studies at the University of Oklahoma.

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"Well-researched and convincing. . . . Grinberg cogently implies that the New York Intellectuals unified around a Jewish masculine form that provided its Jewish male members with a psychologically positive alternative to mainstream American masculine norms that classified them as inferior and their fathers’ masculine norms that the members viewed as rendering their adherents impotent."---Philip Hollander, Reading Religion

Product details

• Authors: Ronnie Grinberg
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2024
• EAN: 9780691193090
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19309-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); New York, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Men's Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: men and boys, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Gender Studies: Men