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The Masculinity Studies Reader
Rachel Adams (Edited by), David Savran (Edited by)
9780631226604, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 11 January 2002
432 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.753 kg
"These essays are, individually, insightful and often arresting. Taken together, they are prismatic, illuminating this new interdisciplinary area of scholarly inquiry. With this collection, masculinity studies comes of age as an academic field." Michael Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook "This anthology identifies the need in contemporary cultural studies for more elaborate understandings of the relations of various masculinities to power, nation, empire, violence, race, class, and embodiment. The editors must be commended for producing a volume which answers to this need and brings together an eclectic, multidisciplinary, and wide-ranging collection of essays in response. Bound to become required reading in gender studies and beyond!" University of California at San Diego "The instructor-friendly anthology of 22 previously published essays dating primarily from 1970 to 2000, is destined to become a standard in courses on gender and masculinity. Rachel Adams and David Savran have chosen fascinating articles that will be both challenging and accessible to university students at all levels" Journal of Contemporary European Studies "Adams and Savran provide extrcta from a number of key sources that lay the foundations for understanding masculinities through a cultural studies oriented approach" Sexualities
The Masculinity Studies Reader brings together widely-read and -cited work by key theorists in a new context that is intended simultaneously to establish the contours of and to raise questions about masculinity as a field of academic inquiry.
Acknowledgments vii Editors’ Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Part I: Eroticism 9 Introduction 9 1.Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes 9 2.Masochism and Male Subjectivity 14 3.Subject Honor, Object Shame 41 4.The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens 69 Part II: Social Sciences 77 Introduction 5.Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 80 6.Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity 99 7.The Fraternal Social Contract 119 8.The Birth of the Self-made Man 135 Part III: Representations 153 Introduction 153 9.The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic 157 10.The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism 175 11.Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary 188 12.Bonds of (In)Difference 201 Part IV: Empire and Modernity 227 Introduction 227 13.The Fact of Blackness 232 14.The History of Masculinity 245 15.The White Man's Muscles 262 16.What Does a Jew Want? or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus 274 17.The Economy of Colonial Desire 292 18.Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada 318 Part V: Borders 337 Introduction 337 19.Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England 337 20.An Introduction to Female Masculinity 355 21."That Sexe Which Prevaileth" 375 22.The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 389 Index 408
Rachel Adams and David Savran
Sigmund Freud
Kaja Silverman
Roger Lancaster
David Halperin
Clifford Geertz
Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell, and John Lee
Carole Pateman
Michael Kimmel
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
King-Kok Cheung
Kobena Mercer
Robyn Wiegman
Frantz Fanon
R. W. Connell
Richard Dyer
Daniel Boyarin
Revathi Krishnaswamy
Julie Peteet
Alan Bray
Judith Halberstam
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Don Kulick
Subject Areas: Society & culture: general [JF]
