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javacatRaquel mentioned this concept months ago, after her trip to New Mexico. This is on Cody's Books Sept. calendar:
STEPHEN DUCAT
discusses THE WIMP FACTOR: GENDER GAPS, HOLY WARS, & THE POLITICS OF ANXIOUS MASCULINTY. In this landmark exploration of how male anxiety has come to define our political culture, Stephen Ducat shows the link between the desperate macho strutting of male politicians, the gender gap in voting behavior, and fundamentalist holy wars -- three striking political phenomena of the twenty-first century. He argues that a direct association exists between the magnitude of a mans femiphobia -- that is, his terror of being perceived as feminine - and his tendency to embrace right-wing political opinions. From the strenuous efforts by handlers to counter George H.W. Bushs wimp factor to Bill Clintons surprising surge in popularity after the Monica Lewinsky affair, to the swaggering arrogance that led to the moral and military quagmire in U.S.-occupied Iraq, anxious masculinity has been a discernible subtext in politics. Ducat shows how this sense of imperiled manhood has been an underlying force in public life throughout the history of Western culture from the political campaigns of ancient Greece to current contests for the presidency. He also explores why and how certain political issues -- such as environmental protection, support for war, welfare reform, and gay civil rights -- get gendered. Stephen J. Ducat is a professor of psychology in the School of Humanities at New College of California, a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice, and a candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. The author of Taken In: American Gullibility and the Reagan Mythos, he lives in the San Francisco Bay area. 7:30 PM at Telegraph Avenue.
STEPHEN DUCAT
discusses THE WIMP FACTOR: GENDER GAPS, HOLY WARS, & THE POLITICS OF ANXIOUS MASCULINTY. In this landmark exploration of how male anxiety has come to define our political culture, Stephen Ducat shows the link between the desperate macho strutting of male politicians, the gender gap in voting behavior, and fundamentalist holy wars -- three striking political phenomena of the twenty-first century. He argues that a direct association exists between the magnitude of a mans femiphobia -- that is, his terror of being perceived as feminine - and his tendency to embrace right-wing political opinions. From the strenuous efforts by handlers to counter George H.W. Bushs wimp factor to Bill Clintons surprising surge in popularity after the Monica Lewinsky affair, to the swaggering arrogance that led to the moral and military quagmire in U.S.-occupied Iraq, anxious masculinity has been a discernible subtext in politics. Ducat shows how this sense of imperiled manhood has been an underlying force in public life throughout the history of Western culture from the political campaigns of ancient Greece to current contests for the presidency. He also explores why and how certain political issues -- such as environmental protection, support for war, welfare reform, and gay civil rights -- get gendered. Stephen J. Ducat is a professor of psychology in the School of Humanities at New College of California, a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice, and a candidate at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. The author of Taken In: American Gullibility and the Reagan Mythos, he lives in the San Francisco Bay area. 7:30 PM at Telegraph Avenue.