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GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LeSBIAN AND GAy StUDIeS Sarah E. Chinn Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity Leerom Medovoi Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. ix + 387 pp. Here is the conventional wisdom about the United States in the 1950s: because of economic expansion, the Cold War, and the increasing corporatization, suburbanization and commodification of white America, the United States became increasingly conformist, politically conservative, and intolerant of dissent. In reaction, rebels like James Dean, Elvis Presley, and the Beat Generation offered a different kind of vibrant young masculinity that called upon various marginal identities (working class, African American, artistic) to loosen the stranglehold of the âorganization man.â Of course, that narrative has been reworked, debunked, restructured, deconstructed, and recast so many times that the conventional wisdom can hardly be called conventional anymore. In fact, on picking up Leerom Medovoiâs Rebels, I was not expecting much in the way of new analysis. I was, however, mistaken. Medovoiâs thesis is both simple and elegant: that the rebel, particularly âthe bad boy,â was a necessary part of 1950s popular culture as a corollary and corrective to the man in the gray flannel suit. In its new
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2007
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