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Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century and its reception helped set the stage for the dynamics of popular culture and mass media today. Poetry was then part and parcel of American popular culture, spreading rapidly as the consumer economy expanded and companies exploited its profit-making potential. Poetry also offered ordinary Americans creative, emotional, political, and intellectual modes of expression, whether through scrapbooking, participation in radio programs, or poetry contests. Reenvisioning the uses of twentieth-century poetry, Chasar provides a richer understanding of the innovations of modernist and avant-garde poets and the American reading public's sophisticated powers of feeling and perception.

American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism. --- Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Poetics -- History -- 20th century. --- Poetry -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century. --- Poetry -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century. --- Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

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"Friendships between women and gay men captivated the American media in the opening decade of the 21st century. John Portmann places this curious phenomenon in its historical context, examining the changing social attitudes towards gay men in the postwar period and how their relationships with women have been portrayed in the media. As women and gay men both struggled toward social equality in the late 20th century, some women understood that defending gay men - who were often accused of effeminacy - was in their best interest. Joining forces carried both political and personal implications. Straight women used their influence with men to prevent bullying and combat homophobia. Beyond the bureaucratic fray, women found themselves in transformed roles with respect to gay men - as their mothers, sisters, daughters, caregivers, spouses, voters, employers and best friends. In the midst of social hostility to gay men during the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, a significant number of gay women volunteered to comfort the afflicted and fight reigning sexual values. Famous women such as Elizabeth Taylor and Barbra Streisand threw their support behind a detested minority, while countless ordinary women did the same across America. Portmann celebrates not only women who made the headlines but also those who did not. Looking at the links between the women's liberation and gay rights movements, and filled with concrete examples of personal and political relationships between straight women and gay men, Women and Gay Men in the Postwar Period is an engaging and accessible study which will be of interest to students and scholars of 20th- and 21st century social and gender history." --

Gays - United States - Public opinion --- Gay rights - United States - History - 21st century --- Women - Political activity - United States - History - 21st century --- Public opinion - United States - History - 21st century --- Gays --- Gay rights --- Feminism --- Women --- Public opinion --- Homosexuels --- Féminisme --- Femmes --- Opinion publique --- Feminism. --- Gay rights. --- Public opinion. --- History --- Political activity --- Opinion publique. --- Droits --- Histoire --- Activité politique --- Political activity. --- 1900-2099 --- United States. --- Gay people

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World War, 1939-1945 --- Public opinion --- Press coverage --- History --- France --- Foreign public opinion, American --- United States --- 20th century --- Press and politics --- Foreign public opinion [American ] --- In mass media --- World War, 1939-1945 - France - Press coverage - United States --- Public opinion - United States - History - 20th century --- France - Press coverage - United States - History - 20th century --- France - Foreign public opinion, American --- France - History - German occupation, 1940-1945 - Press coverage - United States --- France - History - German occupation, 1940-1945 - Foreign public opinion, American --- Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) --- Opinion publique --- Presse et politique --- Dans la presse --- États-Unis --- 20e siècle --- Opinion publique américaine