Mama's boy [electronic resource] : momism and homophobia in postwar American culture / Roel van den Oever.

In postwar America, sociologists and psychiatrists held that a mother who was over-affectionate or too-distant could hurt her son's development, resulting in conditions such as asthma, autism, and schizophrenia. Deemed worst of all was a gay son, since the country was in the midst of Senator Jo...

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