Roel Van Den Oever: 1 book

Book cover of Mama's Boy

Mama's Boy

Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture

by Roel van den Oever
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012

In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual development of her children, in particular her sons. Deemed worst of all was the outcome of homosexuality, since the period saw an intense policing of sexual...
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