Robert J Corber: 3 books
Homosexuality in Cold War America
Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1997
Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on...
Cold War Femme
Lesbianism, National Identity, and Hollywood Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
In his bestselling book The Grapevine: A Report on the Secret World of the Lesbian (1965), Jess Stearn announced that, contrary to the assumptions of many Americans, most lesbians appeared indistinguishable from other women. They could mingle “congenially in conventional society.” Some were popular...
In the Name of National Security
Hitchcock, Homophobia, and the Political Construction of Gender in Postwar America
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
In the Name of National Security exposes the ways in which the films of Alfred Hitchcock, in conjunction with liberal intellectuals and political figures of the 1950s, fostered homophobia so as to politicize issues of gender in the United States.
As Corber shows, throughout the 1950s a cast of mind...