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I was born a member of Generation X. The prevailing “values” of the 1980s in America had a vast impact on cultural understandings of masculinity and sexuality, and thus a profound impact on my adolescence. Just as I grew to understand what hippies were, they had lost their cultural resonance; the anti-conformist beatniks were beaten by a fervently conservative Reagan-led social ideology. Although I questioned social conservatism, and looked upon organized religion with extreme suspicion, I was not entirely immune from the prevailing conservative culture. I was partially conditioned by it.
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Anderson, E. (2014). Introduction. In: 21st Century Jocks: Sporting Men and Contemporary Heterosexuality. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137379641_1
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