Mama's Boy: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture by Roel van den Oever

Mama's Boy: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture

Roel van den Oever

216 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

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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 homosexua...

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