Introduction
ch. 1. My weapon is my pen : constructing secular Jewish masculinity
ch. 2. "Crazy" and "genteel" : Di and Li Trilling and secular Jewish masculinity
ch. 3. Jewish cold warriors and "mature" masculinity
ch. 4. World of our fathers, world of our sons : Irving Howe and Jewish masculinity on the left
ch. 5. "Lady" critics : women New York intellectuals and feminism
ch. 6. Midge Decter : the "first lady of neoconservatism"
ch. 7. "S'Sissy,' the most dreaded epithet of an American boyhood" : Norman Podhoretz and Jewish masculinity on the right
Epilogue.