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  1. Ragged dicks
    masculinity, steel, and the rhetoric of the self-made man
    Author: Catano, James V.
    Published: ©2001
    Publisher:  Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale

    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Location:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0585457026; 9780585457024
    Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; Englisch; Men; Masculinity; Self-reliance; Success; Iron and steel workers; American literature; English language; Masculinity in literature; Rhetoric and psychology; Men in literature; Rhetorik; Stahlarbeiter; Männlichkeit; Inszenierung; Literatur; Männlichkeit <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 280 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-270) and index

    Effective rhetoric/rhetorical effects: maintaining masculinity. Oedipal and preoedipal rhetoric ; Contemporary perspectives on rhetoric and myth -- Dominant myths/myths of domination: masculinity and agency. Society and agency, subjects and self-making ; Language, psychoanalysis, and rhetoric ; Social myths and sadomasochism -- A father is being beaten: history-making selves and self-making histories. Andrew Carnegie and middle-class myth ; The family romance ; Workplace ethos ; Maintaining doxa through mythic variation -- Beyond the buddy principle: individual struggle and masculine solidarity. Work shifts/mythic shifts ; Whittaker's Larry Locke: a story of labor and capital ; Sadomasochism and self-making ; Solidarity, mutuality, and unionization ; Intimacy and dependency -- Moving up or moving out: separation, mobility, agency. Journeyman/craftsman masculinity ; Company men and corporate power ; Immigration and agency ; Ethnicity and race -- Tapping the heat: race, racism, and erasure ; Frederick Douglass's rhetorics ; Racism in the steel industry ; Race and self-making, separation and sadism ; Race and the collapse of steel ; Self-making as self-erasure -- Making new metal from old: retooling the self-made man. Anti-institutionalism ; Talking the talk ; Walking the walk ; Solidarity, risk taking, and hot metal men