Phil Tiemeyer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780520274761
- eISBN:
- 9780520955301
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520274761.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Chapter 3 examines the rise of homophobia after World War II, which also contributed to the steward’s demise. Stewards increasingly raised eyebrows as failed men. Insinuations circulated even in ...
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Chapter 3 examines the rise of homophobia after World War II, which also contributed to the steward’s demise. Stewards increasingly raised eyebrows as failed men. Insinuations circulated even in front-page news headlines. Miami’s newspapers sensationalized a gay sex tryst gone wrong: the murder in 1954 of an Eastern Airlines steward, William Simpson, at the hands of two young men. The ensuing hysteria solidified the link between gender transgression and sexual perversion, portraying stewards as threats to normalcy. In this climate, pressure grew on airlines to stop hiring stewards. The legal sphere also adopted a homophobic stance upon Simpson’s death, as a jury acquiesced to the defense’s claims of “homosexual panic” and refused to find his killers guilty of first-degree murder.Less
Chapter 3 examines the rise of homophobia after World War II, which also contributed to the steward’s demise. Stewards increasingly raised eyebrows as failed men. Insinuations circulated even in front-page news headlines. Miami’s newspapers sensationalized a gay sex tryst gone wrong: the murder in 1954 of an Eastern Airlines steward, William Simpson, at the hands of two young men. The ensuing hysteria solidified the link between gender transgression and sexual perversion, portraying stewards as threats to normalcy. In this climate, pressure grew on airlines to stop hiring stewards. The legal sphere also adopted a homophobic stance upon Simpson’s death, as a jury acquiesced to the defense’s claims of “homosexual panic” and refused to find his killers guilty of first-degree murder.
George Cotkin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190218478
- eISBN:
- 9780190218508
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190218478.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, Cultural History
This chapter explores Marlon Brando’s acting style in two films from 1954, The Wild One and On the Waterfront. He employed a sort of excessively minimalist style to convey both seething sexuality and ...
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This chapter explores Marlon Brando’s acting style in two films from 1954, The Wild One and On the Waterfront. He employed a sort of excessively minimalist style to convey both seething sexuality and undercurrents of violence. Both of these aspects would become central to the New Sensibility. The chapter fits Brando, as both actor and individual, into a stream of rebellion beginning to stir in American culture (especially publication of the Kinsey Report), as well as within the context of Cold War. His rebellion spoke to young Americans, concerned about the horror of annihilation through atomic warfare and the perceived hypocrisy of the older generation.Less
This chapter explores Marlon Brando’s acting style in two films from 1954, The Wild One and On the Waterfront. He employed a sort of excessively minimalist style to convey both seething sexuality and undercurrents of violence. Both of these aspects would become central to the New Sensibility. The chapter fits Brando, as both actor and individual, into a stream of rebellion beginning to stir in American culture (especially publication of the Kinsey Report), as well as within the context of Cold War. His rebellion spoke to young Americans, concerned about the horror of annihilation through atomic warfare and the perceived hypocrisy of the older generation.
Tulsi Badrinath
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199465187
- eISBN:
- 9780199086511
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199465187.003.0022
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Badrinath says in this essay that it is in the Dharmic views of human life that one has, for the first time in human history, a profound understanding of sexual happiness which has at the very heart ...
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Badrinath says in this essay that it is in the Dharmic views of human life that one has, for the first time in human history, a profound understanding of sexual happiness which has at the very heart of it an equally profound paradox. The factors which help man and woman create sexual pleasure and happiness are all non-sexual in nature: that is the paradox of sex. The paradoxical foundations of sexual pleasure are already mentioned in the Chhandogya Upanishad and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Physical pleasure of sex is dependent upon the feeling that the human bodies of man and woman, with all its innate attributes, physical and psychological, is sacred. Badrinath states that the clearer the awareness of the sacredness of the physical, the more heightened will be the sexual pleasure.Less
Badrinath says in this essay that it is in the Dharmic views of human life that one has, for the first time in human history, a profound understanding of sexual happiness which has at the very heart of it an equally profound paradox. The factors which help man and woman create sexual pleasure and happiness are all non-sexual in nature: that is the paradox of sex. The paradoxical foundations of sexual pleasure are already mentioned in the Chhandogya Upanishad and the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Physical pleasure of sex is dependent upon the feeling that the human bodies of man and woman, with all its innate attributes, physical and psychological, is sacred. Badrinath states that the clearer the awareness of the sacredness of the physical, the more heightened will be the sexual pleasure.
