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Constructing the Normative: Male Subjects and Others in the Dystopias of Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>2005
<mark>Journal</mark>Extrapolation
Issue number4
Volume46
Number of pages14
Pages (from-to)439-452
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This article explores the representation of masculinity in the work of Frederik Pohl and Cyril Kornbluth, and in particular their novel Gladiator-at-Law (1954). The article suggests that the critique of corporate capitalism offered by the novel is accompanied by a re-statement of a heroic, reactionary masculinity which seeks to offset economic displacement with gender domination.