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{{Byline|last=Meloy|first=Michael|abstract=As early as the mid-1950s, [[Norman Mailer]] was already linking creative expression and sexual performance, using both to construct a vision of masculinity centered in virility and sexual release. ''[[An American Dream]]'' serves as a reflection of these beliefs—the culmination of a paradigm whose inception can be traced to World War II. Mailer’s perception of his relationship to women parallels his relationship to the novel.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr09melo}} | {{Byline|last=Meloy|first=Michael|abstract=As early as the mid-1950s, [[Norman Mailer]] was already linking creative expression and sexual performance, using both to construct a vision of masculinity centered in virility and sexual release. ''[[An American Dream]]'' serves as a reflection of these beliefs—the culmination of a paradigm whose inception can be traced to World War II. Mailer’s perception of his relationship to women parallels his relationship to the novel.|url=https://prmlr.us/mr09melo}} | ||
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* {{cite book |last=Clark |first=Susan |date=2000 |title=Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West |url= |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | * {{cite book |last=Clark |first=Susan |date=2000 |title=Cold Warriors: Manliness on Trial in the Rhetoric of the West |url= |location=Carbondale |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= |ref=harv }} | ||
* {{cite book |last=Cohan |first=Steve |date=1997 |title=Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties |url= |location=Bloomington |publisher=Indiana University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} | * {{cite book |last=Cohan |first=Steve |date=1997 |title=Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties |url= |location=Bloomington |publisher=Indiana University Press |pages= |isbn= |author-link= }} |