Another idea...

Since reading Replaceable You by David Serlin last semester, I've been interested in exploring the various masculinities that were jockying for position in the 1950s, most notably the tension between working-class laborer and white-collar businessman as the two dominant constructions of (white) masculinity. So I'm considering a paper that would take a look at 1950s covers and contents of Esquire Magazine (the bachelor/style/white collar representation) and Argosy Magazine (for the working-class, hunting and fishing crowd). Below are the two magazines' covers from March 1950.