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Where the Boys Are
Deacon, Kathy | April 18, 1994 issue

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This article presents information on two books "Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America," by James William Gibson and "The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War," by Cynthia Enloe. In Warrior Dreams, Gibson presents Rambo as a paradigm of a conservative cultural movement that reached its height-or depth-in the 1980s. Calling it the "New War," Gibson seeks to describe and, to some extent, historically explain it. New War culture can only be understood in relation to the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and the conservative canard that it was brought about by the government's self-imposed restraint.

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WARRIOR Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America (Book); MORNING After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War, The (Book); ENLOE, Cynthia; GIBSON, James William; POLITICAL culture; POLITICS & war; AUTHORS
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