{"product_id":"the-masculinity-studies-reader-isbn-9780631226604","title":"The Masculinity Studies Reader","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Masculinity Studies Reader \u003c\/i\u003ebrings 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. \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEditors’ Acknowledgments x\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRachel Adams and David Savran\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Eroticism 9\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes 9\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSigmund Freud\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.Masochism and Male Subjectivity 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaja Silverman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.Subject Honor, Object Shame 41\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoger Lancaster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Halperin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Social Sciences 77\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClifford Geertz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity 99\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Carrigan, Bob Connell, and John Lee\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.The Fraternal Social Contract 119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarole Pateman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.The Birth of the Self-made Man 135\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Kimmel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Representations 153\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 153\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic 157\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve Kosofsky Sedgwick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKing-Kok Cheung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKobena Mercer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.Bonds of (In)Difference 201\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobyn Wiegman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Empire and Modernity 227\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 227\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13.The Fact of Blackness 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrantz Fanon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14.The History of Masculinity 245\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eR. W. Connell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15.The White Man's Muscles 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Dyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16.What Does a Jew Want? or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaniel Boyarin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17.The Economy of Colonial Desire 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevathi Krishnaswamy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18.Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulie Peteet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Borders 337\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 337\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19.Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England 337\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlan Bray\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20.An Introduction to Female Masculinity 355\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJudith Halberstam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21.\"That Sexe Which Prevaileth\" 375\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Fausto-Sterling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22.The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 389\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDon Kulick\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 408\u003c\/p\u003e  \"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.\" \u003ci\u003eMichael Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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!\" \u003ci\u003eUniversity of California at San Diego\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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\" \u003ci\u003eJournal of Contemporary European Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eAdams and Savran provide extrcta from a number of key sources that lay the foundations for understanding masculinities through a cultural studies oriented approach\" \u003ci\u003eSexualities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Adams\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her writing includes the book \u003ci\u003eSideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and articles in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCamera\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eObscura\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGLQ\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Savran\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Theatre at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written two books on masculinity: \u003ci\u003eTaking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and \u003ci\u003eCommunists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams\u003c\/i\u003e (1992).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Masculinity Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of previously published essays that have defined the interdisciplinary study of masculinity. Bringing together scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, this volume serves multiple functions as a teaching companion, introduction to the field, and scholarly resource. Showcasing key theorists, including Kimmel, Silverman, Halperin, Freud, Dyer, Boyarin, and Fanon, the \u003ci\u003eReader\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to reconceptualize the masculinity studies debate along the axes of empire, borders, representations, the social sciences, and eroticism, as well as across such diverse fields as film, anthropology, women's studies, sociology, and queer theory. An introductory essay written by the editors frames widely-read and -cited work 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990284779749,"sku":"NP9780631226604","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631226604.jpg?v=1761787199","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-masculinity-studies-reader-isbn-9780631226604","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}