Popular evangelical mens’ books framed masculinity as a war between macho and effeminate poles

Evidence

Farrar and Weber both addressed the “confusion” Christian men experienced in discerning God’s will for men, and both sought to navigate a course between an overly “macho” masculinity on the one hand and a disturbingly “effeminate” one on the other. Significantly, both also opened with Vietnam combat stories. — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 372

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the rhetorical structure and Vietnam framing that defined the warrior-masculinity genre.