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Pinks, Pansies, and Punks charts the construction of masculinity within American literary culture from the 1930s to the 1970s. Penner documents the emergence of "macho criticism," and explores how debates about "hard" and "soft" masculinity influenced the class struggles of the 1930s, anti-communism in the 1940s and 1950s, and the clash between the Old Left and the New Left in the 1960s. By extending literary culture to include not just novels, plays, and poetry, but diaries, journals, manifestos, screenplays, and essays on psychology and sociology, Penner unveils the multiplicity of gender attitudes that emerge in each of the decades he addresses.

Literature and society --- Gender identity in literature. --- Social classes in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Men in literature. --- American literature --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History --- Male authors --- History and criticism. --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Men in literature --- Masculinity in literature --- Gender identity in literature --- United States --- Gold, Michael --- Leary, Timothy Francis --- Ginsberg, Allen --- Eliot, Thomas Stearns --- Cleaver, Eldridge --- Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.) --- Baldwin, James --- Fiedler, Leslie Aaron --- Criticism and interpretation --- Mailer, Norman, 1923-2007. The White Negro