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Table of Contents:

• 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.

Author/Creator:

Catano, James V., 1950-

Contributors:

NetLibrary, Inc.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ragged dicks: masculinity, steel, and the rhetoric of the self-made man [by Catano, J.V.]

Subjects:

Men — United States — Psychology

Masculinity — United States

Self-reliance — United States

Success — United States

Iron and steel workers — United States

American literature — History and criticism

English language — United States — Rhetoric

Masculinity in literature

Rhetoric and psychology

Men in literature

Men — Psychology

Men.

Masculinity

Self-reliance

Success

Iron and steel workers

American literature

English language — Rhetoric

English language

United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2003. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.

Physical Description:

x, 280 pages ; 23 cm

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HQ1090.3 .C4 2001eb

ISBNs:

0585457026 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

52687243