Mama's Boy

" This book is a brilliant meditation on homophobia, misogyny, narrative, and their interrelations in cold-war American culture. " - Henry Abelove, F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professor of Gender and Sexuality, Harvard University

" This highly readable book offers an excellent recapitulaton of an American nightmare. The McCarthy era institutionalised a harsh oppression of gay people. Social paranoia translated into cultural repression. Van den Oever shows in his amazing analyses of well-chosen novels and the Hitchcock-movie Psycho how sexual paranoia pervaded American culture until the sixties. His interpretations are original, compelling, and totally convincing. An amazing piece of work. " - Maaike Meijer, professor of Gender Studies, Maastricht University