Gender studies: men and boys Books
University of California Press Go Nation
Book SynopsisGo (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. This title deals with this game.Trade Review"Moskowitz advances our understanding of the key roles that sports play in gendering societies in Asia ... this book is Invaluable." -- Yunxiang Gao SignsTable of ContentsPreface Fieldwork Notes on Terminology Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction The Game of Weiqi New Technologies The Ranking System Gender Coding and the Naturalization of Difference Weiqi Women Ambiguous Identities and Taiwan's Women's Team Constructing Masculinities and the Weiqi Sphere Chapter 2. Multiple Metaphors and Mystical Imaginaries: A Cultural History of Weiqi The Rules Weiqi in Comparison with Chess Religious Mysticism and Historical Teleologies From Stigma to Status Weiqi's War Imagery Chapter 3. Nation, Race, and Man The Scholar and the Warrior Chinese Masculinities: Individual Formation and Nationalist Discourses Anti-Japanese Sentiments as Nation Building Japan's Weiqi Legacy Mastering East Asia: National Rivalries and International Competitions Conceptualizing Nations, Rethinking Play An Unexpected Nostalgia for the Japanese Era Chapter 4. Becoming Men: Children's Training in Contemporary China Weiqi Teachers and the Confucian Ideal Modernizing Influences--Weiqi Schools as Corporate Structures The Students Weiqi as a Disciplinary Mechanism Weiqi as Sport--Beyond the Cartesian Divide Disciplining Parents Chapter 5. A Certain Man: University Students, Amateurs, and Professionals Class Consciousness and Relentless Competition Suzhi Weiqi's Suzhi Discourse The Peking University Weiqi Team, Ranks, and the Amateur/Professional Divide Professional Training Facing the Future Chapter 6. Retirement and Constructions of Masculinity Among Working Class Weiqi Players First Contact Retirement Park Culture Kibitzing as a Social Ideal Lived Histories Masculinity Among the Working Class at the Park Chapter 7. Conclusion: Looking Forward to a Bygone Age Glossary of Terms Citations Index
£22.50
University of California Press Doing the Best I Can Fatherhood in the Inner
Book SynopsisAcross the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. This book looks at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as deadbeat dads. It helps you examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly - without planning.Trade Review"An essential book." -- Harold Pollack The Washington Post/WonkBlogTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. One Thing Leads to Another 2. Thank You, Jesus 3. The Stupid Shit 4. Ward Cleaver 5. Sesame Street Mornings 6. Fight or Flight 7. Try, Try Again 8. The New Package Deal Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press GUYnecology The Missing Science of Mens
Book SynopsisWhat is healthy spermor themale biological clock?This book details why we don't talk aboutmen's reproductive health and how this lackshapes reproductive politics today. For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men's health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences? Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men's reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men's age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today. Trade Review"GUYnecology is methodologically rich, including analysis of historical documents, investigating how scientific knowledge is (or is not) disseminated and engaged by the media, and presenting Almeling's qualitative interviews about subjects' impressions of men’s reproductive health. Together with her previous work (Sex Cells) on the gendered rhetoric used in the reproductive industry, GUYnecology offers the sociologist a robust understanding of the gendered cultural discourses that inform people’s approaches to reproductive health. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Almeling explains why no medical specialty exists that is devoted to male reproductive health—the guy equivalent of gynecology. When it comes to penis science, it seems, men have gotten shafted." * Scientific American *"A methodical writer. . . , Almeling puts new data about male reproduction to work." * Times Literary Supplement *"By convincingly documenting the active construction of this non-knowledge, this book makes a key contribution to our understanding of the ways that Western gender ideologies have become naturalized in biomedicine and reified in public imaginations of sexed bodies." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In its core argument that knowledge and non-knowledge about reproductive health stem from binary and 'opposite' conceptualizations of gender, GUYnecology is a critical contribution to our understanding of men, masculinities, and reproduction." * Men and Masculinities *"GUYnecology is both accessible and imaginative from the opening tableau. . . . Almeling makes use of helpful analogies and metaphors to explain what can sometimes be complex or highly theoretical concepts, such as those of relationships between gender and sex. Aside from the specific research contained in the book, these introductory explanations will no doubt be of use to those new to the subject (or process) of gender from an academic perspective, and for those teaching these subjects." * Social History of Medicine *"GUYnecology is a generative book and acts as a foundation from which future scholars can build the field of reproductive health. The book convincingly argues the interconnectedness of political, social, and medical constructs in the production, circulation and reception of men’s reproduction. Studies of reproduction must destabilize the notion that reproduction relates specifically to cis-gendered women, and Almeling leaves us to ponder the implications of considering all people as reproductive. It is, perhaps, this tantalizing conclusive thought that will prove most generative for future research." * New Genetics and Society *"An engaging and informative read. . . . Almeling’s conclusion about what should be done with regard to male reproductive health and paternal effects is, happily, parallel to what many feminists have recommended with regard to women’s reproductive care: she believes that what is needed is a combination of broad research and attention to social and environmental structures of health and illness." * Nursing Clio *"Accessibly written and highly engaging, GUYnecology should prove an effective teaching tool for undergraduate and post graduate students alike." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Medical Specialization and the Making of Biomedical Knowledge 1. Whither GUYnecology? 2. Andrology Again Part II Circulating Knowledge about Men’s Reproductive Health 3. Making Knowledge about Paternal Effects (with Jenna Healey) 4. Reproductive Health for Half the Public Part III Men’s Views of Reproduction 5. Sex, Sperm, and Fatherhood 6. Healthy Sperm? Conclusion: The Politics of Men’s Reproductive Health Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Interviewees Notes Bibliography
£64.00
University of California Press GUYnecology
Book SynopsisWhat is healthy spermor themale biological clock?This book details why we don't talk aboutmen's reproductive health and how this lackshapes reproductive politics today. For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men's health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences? Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men's reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men's age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today. Trade Review"GUYnecology is methodologically rich, including analysis of historical documents, investigating how scientific knowledge is (or is not) disseminated and engaged by the media, and presenting Almeling's qualitative interviews about subjects' impressions of men’s reproductive health. Together with her previous work (Sex Cells) on the gendered rhetoric used in the reproductive industry, GUYnecology offers the sociologist a robust understanding of the gendered cultural discourses that inform people’s approaches to reproductive health. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Almeling explains why no medical specialty exists that is devoted to male reproductive health—the guy equivalent of gynecology. When it comes to penis science, it seems, men have gotten shafted." * Scientific American *"A methodical writer. . . , Almeling puts new data about male reproduction to work." * Times Literary Supplement *"By convincingly documenting the active construction of this non-knowledge, this book makes a key contribution to our understanding of the ways that Western gender ideologies have become naturalized in biomedicine and reified in public imaginations of sexed bodies." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In its core argument that knowledge and non-knowledge about reproductive health stem from binary and 'opposite' conceptualizations of gender, GUYnecology is a critical contribution to our understanding of men, masculinities, and reproduction." * Men and Masculinities *"GUYnecology is both accessible and imaginative from the opening tableau. . . . Almeling makes use of helpful analogies and metaphors to explain what can sometimes be complex or highly theoretical concepts, such as those of relationships between gender and sex. Aside from the specific research contained in the book, these introductory explanations will no doubt be of use to those new to the subject (or process) of gender from an academic perspective, and for those teaching these subjects." * Social History of Medicine *"GUYnecology is a generative book and acts as a foundation from which future scholars can build the field of reproductive health. The book convincingly argues the interconnectedness of political, social, and medical constructs in the production, circulation and reception of men’s reproduction. Studies of reproduction must destabilize the notion that reproduction relates specifically to cis-gendered women, and Almeling leaves us to ponder the implications of considering all people as reproductive. It is, perhaps, this tantalizing conclusive thought that will prove most generative for future research." * New Genetics and Society *"An engaging and informative read. . . . Almeling’s conclusion about what should be done with regard to male reproductive health and paternal effects is, happily, parallel to what many feminists have recommended with regard to women’s reproductive care: she believes that what is needed is a combination of broad research and attention to social and environmental structures of health and illness." * Nursing Clio *"Accessibly written and highly engaging, GUYnecology should prove an effective teaching tool for undergraduate and post graduate students alike." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Medical Specialization and the Making of Biomedical Knowledge 1. Whither GUYnecology? 2. Andrology Again Part II Circulating Knowledge about Men’s Reproductive Health 3. Making Knowledge about Paternal Effects (with Jenna Healey) 4. Reproductive Health for Half the Public Part III Men’s Views of Reproduction 5. Sex, Sperm, and Fatherhood 6. Healthy Sperm? Conclusion: The Politics of Men’s Reproductive Health Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Interviewees Notes Bibliography
£18.90
University of California Press Sacrificial Limbs Masculinity Disability and
Book SynopsisSacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits,Açiksözexamines how veterans' experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans' everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans' bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology, masculinity, and disability.Trade Review"An engaging, sophisticated contribution to the literature on conflict studies, political violence, medical anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey is likely to put Turkey on the map of world anthropology as never before." * Conflict and Society *"Offers a timely, rare, and robust look at the making and unmaking of political subjectivities, communities, and the state through a profound analysis of conscripts’ experiences of war and bodily loss." * New Perspectives on Turkey *"Sacrificial Limbs brings a critical approach to the often Eurocentric field of disability studies and contributes to gender studies and masculinity studies in the Middle East. Açıksöz’s perspectives on sacrificial crisis, sovereignty, and authoritarianism will encourage debates about the anthropology of state and conspiracy, disappointment, and crisis and temporality." * American Ethnologist *"An elegantly woven narrative that goes well beyond its manifest ethnographic aim and reads as an astute commentary on the recent past and present of Turkish politics. Combining theoretical rigor with ethnographic finesse, Sacrificial Limbs is an essential read for scholars of gender, disability, militarism, and political violence." * Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association *"The strength of Sacrificial Limbs is twofold: on one hand, it delves deeply into the history of Turkish politics, culture, and social life while at the same time it opens up to a broader sphere of applicability for those interested in gender, sexuality, disability, nationalism, and politics." * Disability Studies Quarterly *"The book is equally a work of political anthropology and medical anthropology and would easily be at home in upper- level undergraduate or graduate courses about either subject. With its careful attention to the sociocultural and political, and the embodiment of disabled masculinity, the book is also an exemplary contribution to the burgeoning field of disability anthropology, and one that clearly demonstrates how work on disability can push medical anthropology to attend to the political in new ways." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Açıksöz effectively reminds us of how otherwise unmarked bodies in theories of sovereignty and biopolitics (and necropolitics) are already always gendered, classed, and ethno-racialized in specific ways." * Anthropology Book Forum *"Brings together meticulous ethnographic insight with rigorous conceptual analysis. . . . Açıksöz has written a beautiful ethnography that provides rare insight into the intimate lives of the protagonists of ultranationalist politics. It is a book that approaches its interlocutors with critical empathy, seeking to understand and lay bare what propels them to become protagonists in deadly violence." * Kurdish Studies *"Sacrificial Limbs weaves an extremely well-written and caring ethnography with important theoretical insights. It is a must-read for those interested in contemporary political dynamics in Turkey and the Middle East. . . . It is no surprise that this elegant ethnography has won several prestigious book awards including the 2021 New Millennium Book Award by the Society of Medical Anthropology and 2020 Fatema Mernisi Award by MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association). It is highly recommended to political anthropologists." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Moving in its description and insightful in its analysis, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey provides timely and important contributions to the study of nationalism, sovereignty, violence, masculinity, and embodiment. The author’s discussion of prostheses and their political significance is particularly fascinating." * Ethnos *"This is the kind of book one would point to as a textbook example of ethnographic description or, if you like, of ‘thick description’. But the thickness under consideration does not just mean a mass of statements lumped together by a certain thematic resemblance but rather indicates an eloquently weaved narrative that moves, unsettles, and affects the reader." * Cultural Studies *"Can we still understand the suffering of the people whose politics are offensive to our worldviews if they are simultaneously threatening us or the people sharing our political stance? In Sacrificial Limbs, an ethnography of the disabled veterans and martyrs’ families in Turkey, Salih Can Açıksöz asks and answers this question by inhabiting a ‘grey zone’ and by writing critically, tragically and beautifully from within it." * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Entering a Gray Zone Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Being-on-the-Mountains 2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State 3 • Of Gazis and Beggars 4 • Communities of Loss 5 • Prosthetic Revenge 6 • Prosthetic Debts Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities of Political Violence Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press On Shifting Ground
Book SynopsisOn Shifting Ground examines how it is to become a man in a place and time defined by economic contraction and carceral expansion. Jamie J. Fader draws on in-depth interviews with a racially diverse sample of Philadelphia's millennial men to analyze the key tensions that organize their lives: isolation versus connectedness, stability versus drama, hope versus fear, and stigma and shame versus positive, masculine affirmation. In the unfamiliar cultural landscape of contemporary adult masculinity, these men strive to define themselves in terms of what they can accomplish despite negative labels, as well as seeking to avoid becoming a statistic in the face of endemic risk.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Philadelphia as a Site of Shifting Ground 3. Leaving Crime Behind in the Process of Maturation 4. Isolation as a Way of Avoiding Trouble and Managing Risk 5. Stigma, Generativity, and Redemption 6. Durable Social Ties, Linked Lives, and Adult Masculinities 7. Meanings of Manhood and Adulthood Conclusion: New Frames for Creating Solidarity and Justice Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£56.80
University of California Press On Shifting Ground
Book SynopsisOn Shifting Ground examines how it is to become a man in a place and time defined by economic contraction and carceral expansion. Jamie J. Fader draws on in-depth interviews with a racially diverse sample of Philadelphia's millennial men to analyze the key tensions that organize their lives: isolation versus connectedness, stability versus drama, hope versus fear, and stigma and shame versus positive, masculine affirmation. In the unfamiliar cultural landscape of contemporary adult masculinity, these men strive to define themselves in terms of what they can accomplish despite negative labels, as well as seeking to avoid becoming a statistic in the face of endemic risk.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Philadelphia as a Site of Shifting Ground 3. Leaving Crime Behind in the Process of Maturation 4. Isolation as a Way of Avoiding Trouble and Managing Risk 5. Stigma, Generativity, and Redemption 6. Durable Social Ties, Linked Lives, and Adult Masculinities 7. Meanings of Manhood and Adulthood Conclusion: New Frames for Creating Solidarity and Justice Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Mens Health
Book SynopsisWith recent social trends and developments in health care policy, the health of men is high on the political agenda. Men''s Health: Perspectives, Diversity and Paradox examines and clarifies what is known about the socialisation of boys and men. The book shows how this influences the ways in which they maintain their health, how they respond to illness, and why they do or do not seek help. It also includes personal stories and poems by men. The text reviews research on health, gender and masculinity, and describes recent research on the health of men at work. The research forms the basis for exploring how national, regional and local strategies can be developed to improve men''s health. The book is intended for medical, nursing and social science students, and health service managers and professionals. It is relevant for academic departments of public health, social medicine, general practice, nursing, health sciences, women''s studies, gender studies, public policy anTrade Review"[This] is a very comprehensive book that addresses a vast range of men's health issues...a useful text for those seeking a broad overview of many of the issues related to men's health." Journal of Advanced Nursing “Its particular strength is in providing a public health perspective that is distinctly lacking from much of the literature on men’s health” Community PractitionerTable of ContentsList of Figures; Icons Used in This Text; List of Tables; List of Personal Stories; Acknowledgements; Forword; Is there a crisis in men's health; Overview of male health; Gender and masculinities; Health and illnes behaviour in males; The health of men at work; Perceptions of health amongst men at work; National and international perspectives; Local perspectives; Policy and progress; References; Index
£64.76
Harvard University Press Hysterical Men
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£33.11
Harvard University Press Fatherhood
Book SynopsisLooking at every kind of fatherhood - being a father in and out of marriage, fathering from a distance, stepfathering, and parenting by gay males, this book presents a picture of how being a parent fits with men's broader social and work lives, how fatherhood evolved, and how it differs across cultures and through time.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable book, both for its clarity and for its depth of research and detail. What makes it unique is the authors' multicultural and evolutionary approach to the issue of fatherhood. Among the elite group of scholars who study evolutionary anthropology, I can't think of a pair more qualified to write this book than Gray and Anderson. -- Richard Bribiescas, Yale UniversityThis book should be required reading for all fathers and potential fathers. Whether a man is contemplating starting a family down the road as a biological father or buying one ready-made off the shelf as a stepfather, this is the indispensable guidebook for trying to be good at fatherhood. Similarly, for social and behavioral scientists interested in families and parenting from a cross-cultural perspective, this will become the standard reference for years to come. No matter what perspective one brings to the table--this reviewer's happens to be evolutionary--there is plenty here to make one think. It is almost scary how much information Gray and Anderson pack in this book, let alone how easy it is to read. -- M. J. O'Brien * Choice *Gray and Anderson's Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior, provides a much needed perspective on men's parenting in general, as well as nuanced discussion of how this parenting varies across cultures, historical periods within cultures, and across individual men. The evolutionary perspective is critical, but equally important is the focus on fatherhood, as books and articles on fatherhood are dwarfed by a large and growing body of research on motherhood and alloparenting. In redressing this balance, Gray and Anderson do for fatherhood what [Sarah] Hrdy has done for motherhood...Essential reading for anyone interested in fatherhood and...an excellent starting point for researchers who want to pursue evolutionarily informed studies of fatherhood. Perhaps the most important quality of this work is that it should spark the interest of young evolutionary minded scholars, such that in coming decades fatherhood will be studied with the same care and depth that motherhood has been. -- Drew H. Bailey, Benjamin Winegard, and David C. Geary * Evolutionary Psychology *Gray, and Anderson's Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior is a timely publication that brings together a wide range of research on fathers, the expression of paternal care, and the impacts of paternal involvement. Indeed, for scholars interested in male reproductive ecology or parental investment, among other anthropological topics, Fatherhood would stand on the merits of its review of the existing scholarship on fatherhood. More notably, however, using an erudite, yet, conversational style, Gray and Anderson apply principles of evolutionary theory to this body of literature in a heretofore-missing compilation...Altogether Gray and Anderson present a host of interesting studies that illustrate the unique ways in which humans and other species experience fatherhood under the skin and, even so, elucidate the extent to which researchers have only scratched the surface in these exciting new domains. In total, Gray and Anderson's Fatherhood adds richly to the ways we think about infant care and human cooperation as being foremost to understanding aspects of human evolution...Gray and Anderson have made a significant contribution to the field of biological anthropology. Appealing to both scholars and nonscholars alike, this text represents a new "go-to" source for those wishing to learn about evolutionary, anthropological approaches to human and hominin fatherhood. For those of us who seek to teach the value of a truly integrative approach to these subjects, this book will undoubtedly prove to be a highly valuable commodity at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. -- Lee T. Gettler * American Journal of Human Biology *[Fatherhood] is helping fill the research gap about fathers. It describes, based on masses of scientific evidence, the so-called "Dad Effect." Or, how fatherhood changes men. -- Douglas Todd * Vancouver Sun *Table of Contents* Preface * Introduction * Our Founding Fathers * A World of Diversity: Cross-Cultural Variation in Paternal Care * Men and Marriage * Fathers and Fertility * Who's the Dad? * Father Involvement, Father Absence, and Children's Outcomes * The Makings of a Stepfather * Having It All? Fatherhood, Male Social Relationships, and Work * The Descent of Dad's Sexuality * Babies on His Brain * Health and the Human Father * Rewriting the Manual * Appendix * References * Acknowledgments * Index
£23.36
Harvard University, Asia Center Feeling the Past in SeventeenthCentury China 121
Book SynopsisFeeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writers' memories during the MingQing cataclysm. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events. This embodied experience reveals literature's mission of remembrance as a moral endeavor in cultural continuity.Trade ReviewCarefully structured, consistently argued, and elegantly written, Feeling the Past certainly piques [the] reader’s interest in and advances our understanding of the traumatic Ming–Qing dynastic transition as well as the literati’s lived experiences and memory of the trying times. -- Jun Fang * Canadian Journal of History *A powerful account that effectively prompts us to relive the pain and suffering of those embroiled in the bloody and chaotic dynastic transition occurring five hundred years earlier…If drawing attention to bodily sensations—experienced as well as remembered—is her goal, then Ling has surely achieved it quite successfully. -- Q. Edward Wang * Chinese Historical Studies *The strength of Ling’s book is surely in its fine translations and detailed exploration of the trauma literature of the second half of the seventeenth century in China, forming a worthy successor to the work of Lynn Struve that first introduced the works of Ding Yaokang and Wang Xiuchu to nonspecialists on the era. -- David Luesink * China Review International *
£43.31
Princeton University Press Constructing Brotherhood
Book SynopsisDespite the persistence of the fraternal form of association in guilds, trade unions, and political associations, as well as in fraternal social organizations, scholars have often ignored its importance as a cultural and social theme. This provocative volume helps to redress that neglect. Tracing the development of fraternalism from early modern western Europe through eighteenth-century Britain to nineteenth-century America, Mary Ann Clawson shows how white males came to use fraternal organizations to resolve troubling questions about relations between the sexes and between classes: American fraternalism in the 1800s created bonds of loyalty across class lines and made gender and race primary categories of collective identity.British men had symbolically become stone masons to express their commitment to the emerging market economy and to the social value of craft labor. Clawson points out that American fraternalism fulfilled similar purposes, as fraternal organizations recoTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION. Fraternalism as a Social Form, pg. 3*1. The Fraternal Model, pg. 21*2. The Craftsman as Hero, pg. 53*3. Was the Lodge a Working-Class Institution?, pg. 87*4. Fraternal Orders in Nineteenth-Century America, pg. 111*5. Social Fraternalism and the Artisanal Ideal, pg. 145*6. The Rise of the Women's Auxiliary, pg. 178*7. The Business of Brotherhood, pg. 211*CONCLUSION, pg. 243*INDEX, pg. 265
£37.80
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The American Elsewhere Adventure and Manliness
Book SynopsisA study of US expansionism from 1815-1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the ""adventurelogues"" of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into ""elsewheres,"" distant and dangerous.Trade ReviewAmerican Elsewhere guides us through the tortuous and often baleful mental landscapes of American adventurers in the time of Jackson. In chasing the chimera of genuine experience, Bryan’s subjects create both a brotherhood of sentiment and geography of racial difference. Bryan’s grasp of emotional topographies is masterful. Saddle up and follow his lead."" - Daniel Herman, author of Hell on the Range: A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West""This book is a compelling investigation of how stories of Western adventurers (explorers, patriot warriors, and men of enterprise) from the end of the War of 1812 to the end of the U.S.-Mexican War romantically redefined the staid conventions of American manhood and thereby promoted a national ethos of manifest destiny. A unique, pivotal study in the cultural history of American exceptionalism and expansionism, it is well researched and plentifully documented, argued with judicious balance and critical discernment, and quite readable."" - Michael L. Johnson, author of Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West
£41.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Masculine Domination
Book SynopsisMasculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into question.Table of ContentsPreface to the English edition: Eternalizing the arbitrary. Prelude. 1 A magnified image. 2 Anamnesis of the hidden constants. 3 Permanence and change. 4 Conclusion. 5 Postscript on domination and love. Appendix: Some questions on the gay and lesbian movement
£45.00
University of British Columbia Press National Manhood and the Creation of Modern
Book SynopsisThis perceptive intellectual history of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec explores how the concept of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and an emerging Quebec nationalism.Trade ReviewJeffery Vacante livre dans sa monographie une étude brillante sur l’articulation entre masculinité, nationalisme et modernité au Québec. -- Camille Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal * Histoire Sociale *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Roots of National Manhood2 Reinforcing Heterosexual Manhood3 The Decline of the French Canadian Race4 War and Manhood5 The Revitalization of National History 6 The Critique of National ManhoodConclusionNotes; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press National Manhood and the Creation of Modern
Book SynopsisThis perceptive intellectual history of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec explores how the concept of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and an emerging Quebec nationalism.Trade ReviewJeffery Vacante livre dans sa monographie une étude brillante sur l’articulation entre masculinité, nationalisme et modernité au Québec. -- Camille Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal * Histoire Sociale *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Roots of National Manhood2 Reinforcing Heterosexual Manhood3 The Decline of the French Canadian Race4 War and Manhood5 The Revitalization of National History 6 The Critique of National ManhoodConclusionNotes; Index
£23.39
MN - University of British Columbia Press Making Men Making History Canadian Masculinities
Book SynopsisThe first published collection devoted entirely to historical studies of Canadian masculinity, Making Men, Making History pushes the boundaries of what it has meant to be a man in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Expertise and Authority1 Medical Men, Masculine Respectability, and the Contest for Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec / Lisa Chilton2 Accident Prevention in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec and the Construction of Masculine Technical Expertise / Magda Fahrni3 “The Spiritual Aspect”: Gordon A. Friesen and the Mechanization of the Modern Hospital / David Theodore4 “I am still the Supt. in this plant”: Negotiating Middle-Class Masculinity in Edmonton Packinghouses in an Era of Union Strength, 1947–66 / Cynthia Loch-DrakePart 2: Masculine Spaces5 The Place of Manliness: Architecture, Domesticity, and Men’s Clubs / Annmarie Adams6 “As Christ the Carpenter”: Work-Camp Missions and the Construction of Christian Manhood in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada / Norman Knowles7 An Open Window on Other Masculinities: Gay Bars and Visibility in Montreal / Olivier VallerandPart 3: Performing Masculinities8 Scales of Manliness: Masculinity and Disability in the Displays of Little People as Freaks in Ontario, 1900s–50s / Jane Nicholas9 Claiming “Our Game”: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century / Allan Downey10 Sea Shepherds, Eco-warriors, and Impresarios: Performing Eco-masculinity in the Canadian Seal Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century / Willeen G. Keough11 The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec Libre, 1970–73 / Eric FillionPart 4: Boys to Men12 Men’s Business: Masculine Adolescence and Social Projection in Selected Coming-of-Age Novels from Interwar Quebec / Louise Bienvenue and Christine Hudon13 Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945–65 / Christopher J. Greig14 Heroes on Campus: Student Veterans and Discourses of Masculinity in Post–Second World War Canada / Patricia Jasen15 Constructing Canadianness: Terry Fox and the Masculine Ideal in Canada / Julie PerronePart 5: Men in Motion16 Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood Among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny17 “The Moral Grandeur of Fleeing to Canada”: Masculinity and the Gender Politics of American Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War / Lara Campbell18 Rebellion on the Road: Masculinity and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in Postwar Ontario / Graeme MelcherPart 6: Faces of Fatherhood19 Celebrating the Family Man: From Father’s Day to La Fête des Pères, 1910–60 / Peter Gossage20 “I’m a lousy father”: Alcoholic Fathers in Postwar Canada and the Myths of Masculine Crises / Robert RutherdaleAfterwordIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Making Men Making History
Book SynopsisThe first published collection devoted entirely to historical studies of Canadian masculinity, Making Men, Making History pushes the boundaries of what it has meant to be a man in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Expertise and Authority1 Medical Men, Masculine Respectability, and the Contest for Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec / Lisa Chilton2 Accident Prevention in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec and the Construction of Masculine Technical Expertise / Magda Fahrni3 “The Spiritual Aspect”: Gordon A. Friesen and the Mechanization of the Modern Hospital / David Theodore4 “I am still the Supt. in this plant”: Negotiating Middle-Class Masculinity in Edmonton Packinghouses in an Era of Union Strength, 1947–66 / Cynthia Loch-DrakePart 2: Masculine Spaces5 The Place of Manliness: Architecture, Domesticity, and Men’s Clubs / Annmarie Adams6 “As Christ the Carpenter”: Work-Camp Missions and the Construction of Christian Manhood in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada / Norman Knowles7 An Open Window on Other Masculinities: Gay Bars and Visibility in Montreal / Olivier VallerandPart 3: Performing Masculinities8 Scales of Manliness: Masculinity and Disability in the Displays of Little People as Freaks in Ontario, 1900s–50s / Jane Nicholas9 Claiming “Our Game”: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century / Allan Downey10 Sea Shepherds, Eco-warriors, and Impresarios: Performing Eco-masculinity in the Canadian Seal Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century / Willeen G. Keough11 The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec Libre, 1970–73 / Eric FillionPart 4: Boys to Men12 Men’s Business: Masculine Adolescence and Social Projection in Selected Coming-of-Age Novels from Interwar Quebec / Louise Bienvenue and Christine Hudon13 Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945–65 / Christopher J. Greig14 Heroes on Campus: Student Veterans and Discourses of Masculinity in Post–Second World War Canada / Patricia Jasen15 Constructing Canadianness: Terry Fox and the Masculine Ideal in Canada / Julie PerronePart 5: Men in Motion16 Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood Among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny17 “The Moral Grandeur of Fleeing to Canada”: Masculinity and the Gender Politics of American Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War / Lara Campbell18 Rebellion on the Road: Masculinity and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in Postwar Ontario / Graeme MelcherPart 6: Faces of Fatherhood19 Celebrating the Family Man: From Father’s Day to La Fête des Pères, 1910–60 / Peter Gossage20 “I’m a lousy father”: Alcoholic Fathers in Postwar Canada and the Myths of Masculine Crises / Robert RutherdaleAfterwordIndex
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University of British Columbia Press The Forgotten Realities of Men
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Baker Publishing Group Crisis in Masculinity
Book SynopsisA call to fathers to affirm their children--even when they have never experienced affirmation from their own fathers--Crisis in Masculinity points the way to wholeness for men and the women in their lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. When a Man Walks alongside Himself2. Man in Crisis: Richard's Story3. Crisis in Masculinity without Sexual Neuroses4. What Is Masculinity?5. The Polarity and Complementarity of the Sexes5. Woman in Crisis: The Story of Richard's Wife and OthersAppendix The True Masculine and the True Feminine by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.NotesIndex
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MB - Cornell University Press Brotherly Love
Book SynopsisKenneth Loiselle not only examines the place of friendship in eighteenth-century French society and culture but also contributes to the history of emotions and masculinity.Trade ReviewBrotherly Love is a remarkably fine book that reads its sourcescarefully, uncovers new ones, and restores friendship to a place of centrality within eighteenth-century French freemasonry.... We know that a book is exceptionally good when it leads outward toward other important historical issues.... Kenneth Loiselle writes beautifully, and engagingly he has tackled major historical questions: what were the emotional bonds created by the enlightened emphasis on transparency? Can we get around the conspiracy theorists and yet acknowledge that freemasonry did contribute to the making of the French Revolution without endorsing their arguments about its having played a political role? Brotherly Love adds immensely to the restoration of freemasonry as a vital area of historical inquiry within American universities. It is a wonderful achievement. -- Margaret Jacob * Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism *Eighteenth-century Freemasonry has always attracted historical interest. A perennial question for historians is how far Freemasonry may have served as a link between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The subject has also stirred the attention of the wider public, attracted by Freemasonry's aura as a mysterious society that shrouds its arcane rituals in secrecy. The great originality of Loiselle's contribution is that he has combined his close-grained study of Freemasonry with the burgeoning interest in both the study of gender relations and the emotional history of friendship to give us a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn topic. Loiselle combines this new interpretive approach with a thorough grounding in much unfamiliar source material, making this a very welcome and opportune study. Loiselle shows an admirable attention to the sources, enabling him to give a convincing—and often touching—picture of what Masonic friendships meant to the men who experienced them. Loiselle states that his primary aim in this book is to use the Masonic movement as a 'prism to understand more clearly how ordinary men conceived of and lived friendship in eighteenth-century France' (p. 8). He has admirably succeeded in his purpose, giving us a historically sensitive account of the lived experience of male friendship, and what it meant to be a man, a friend, and a Mason. -- Marisa Linton * H-France Review? *Kenneth Loiselle has joined together several major strands of historiography and examined a rich corpus of archival evidence to produce an important study of sociability in eighteenth-century France. The strands derive from classic and recent works on Freemasonry, social relations, gender, secularization, emotion, and the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Loiselle is a helpful guide to, and friendly critic of, the existing literature, and his own analysis of records from Mason lodges and correspondence between individual Masons turns what risked being a synthetic review of the familiar into an original and compelling treatment of matters central to historical study. -- David G. Troyansky * American Historical Review *Kenneth Loiselle's book adds to the literature on Masonry by examining the relatively neglected topic of the private and emotional dimensions of this phenomenon. As he convincingly argues, friendship was central to the appeal and experience of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century. By studying the ritual and affective lives of Masons, this book also contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on private life, friendship, masculinity and the emotions as well as the more established literatures on how the Enlightenment was lived and the connections between the Enlightenment and the Revolution.... Loiselle is deeply engaged with the intellectual history of friendship and shows how Masons put Enlightenment ideals about the self and society into practice.... One of the merits of this book... is that it does not just consider norms and discourses but also the experience of Masonic friendship and shows the constant interaction between these two domains. -- Sarah Horowitz * French History *This well-documented study is the fruit of much archival research in the Masonic collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and numerous regional collections. An enjoyable read, the work successfully places the project of Masonic practices in their social and cultural environments in a convincingly analytical and varied way. Beyond the Masonic realm, it brings a stimulating contribution to the study of masculine sociability in the eighteenth century. -- Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire * Annales *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Masonic Utopia of Friendship2. Friendship in Ritual3. Confronting the Specter of Sodomy4. "New but True Friends": The Friendship Network of Philippe-Valentin Bertin du Rocheret5. Friendship in the Age of Sensibility6. Friendship under Fire: Freemasonry in the French RevolutionConclusionIndex
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Cornell University Press Fighting for Life Contest Sexuality and
Book SynopsisWhat accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is...Trade Review"Fighting for Life is a book about contest, the agonia of the Greek arena, and its roots in male life, especially academia. Ong describes this work as an 'excavation' which was prompted by his previous explorations of such areas as the characteristics of oral and literate cultures, Peter Ramus and his 16th-century intellectual milieu, and the early dominance and more recent decline of classical rhetoric in education. In Fighting for Life, he weaves the results of a year's study of agonistic structures running through the biological, social, and noetic worlds. Describing his text as an 'essay in noobiology,' the biological roots of human consciousness, Ong claims that 'contest has been a major factor in organic evolution and it turns out to have been a major, and seemingly essential, factor in intellectual development.' ... The work is a valuable synthesis of a wide body of research and theory."-Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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Cornell University Press Masculinity and Morality
Book SynopsisIn these philosophically reflective essays, Larry May argues against standard accounts of traditional male behavior, discussing male anger, paternity, pornography, rape, sexual harassment, the exclusion of women, and what he terms the myth of uncontrollable male sexuality.Trade ReviewMay's points are well-argued, at times original, and always stimulating reading. Graduate courses on ethics and responsibility would do well to incorporate chapters from this book in their readings. And those character educators who haven't yet seen how feminism could apply to 'them' and their courses, would do well to read through these arguments. The book is one of the first books in the 'men and masculinity' literature to make feminism and feminist issues the heart of the book. This is a good work. * Journal of Moral Education *May... addresses several gender-related issues from a 'group-oriented' point of view.... He contends that men need to alter their behavior toward women, rejecting the position that innate qualities or badgering compel them to behave as they do.... He provides a well-articulated account of a distinctive stance on major issues. * Library Journal *This book represents May's latest ideas in his ongoing project to 'rethink' masculinity... His book is rich in insights and deservers to be widely read for its intelligent discussions of central aspects of sexist oppression in Western society. It is an admirable contribution to realizing Marx's dictum that the point of philosophy is to change the world, not merely interpret it. * Ethics *
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Johns Hopkins University Press Southern Sons Becoming Men in the New Nation
Book SynopsisRevealing the complex interplay of nationalism and regionalism in the lives of southern men, Glover brings new insight to the question of what led the South toward sectionalism and civil war.Trade ReviewA compelling examination. -- Giselle Roberts Civil War Book Review 2007 Makes important contributions to historians' understandings of gender, family, and sectionalism. -- Anya Jabour Journal of American History 2007 Insightful study... Recommended. Choice 2008 We read about young men who exhibited a lifelong negotiation with authority, with society's expectations, with one another, and eventually with the North... Well-written, meticulously researched. -- Evan A. Kontarinis Journal of the Early Republic 2007 Glover convincingly revises the long-held thesis that honor is the best paradigm for investigating young Southern men's identities in the early national period. -- Jennifer L. Gross H-NC, H-Net Reviews 2007 Glover successfully demonstrates that becoming a man in the early national South was a complicated process that demanded much of the boys who sought to be considered men. -- Charlene Boyer Lewis Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Glover carefully charts the empowerment which elite southern boys received over a lifetime of successfully navigating these social waters. -- R. Matthew Poteat Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 2008 Glover's new study of southern elite manhood in the new nation is an important contribution to southern history as well as to gender history. -- Thomas A. Foster William and Mary Quarterly 2009 Southern Sons is an impressive work, certain to influence-and perhaps even reshape-Southern social and cultural history for years to come, as well as the history of American masculinities. -- Steve Tripp Historian 2009 Glover's analysis is insightful and rests on exhaustive research in reliable sources. -- Matthew Mason Southern Quarterly 2009 An important book for anyone interested in gender, family history, or education in antebellum America. It is also a refreshing way to frame the origins of the American Civil War. -- Michael DeGruccio H-CivWar 2008 Southern Sons provides insight into the day-to-day lives of young southern elites and offers a detailed examination of the process by which southern boys became southern men in the Early Republic. -- Ehren K. Foley Journal of Social History 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Sons1. The First Duties of a Southern Boy2. Raising ''Self Willed'' SonsPart II: Gentlemen and Scholars3. The Educational Aspirations of Southern Families4. Creating Southern Schools for Southern Sons5. The (Mis)Behaviors of Southern Collegians6. The Southern Code of Gentlemanly Conduct7. Acting the Part of a GentlemanPart III: Patriarchs8. Supervising Suitors9. Winning a Wife10. Professions and the ''Circle about Every Man''11. Slaveholding and the Destiny of the Republic's Southern SonsEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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Stanford University Press Live and Die Like a Man
Book SynopsisA rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East.Trade Review"Despite the profusion of works on gender in the Middle East, few studies are devoted to masculinity. This pathbreaking volume is the first to examine Egyptian manhood through an ethnographic lens, following the stories of 'boys-to-men' on the brink of a revolution. A must-read for those interested in Middle East gender studies, anthropology, and contemporary Egypt." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University, author of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East *"With Live and Die Like a Man, Farha Ghannam is far ahead of the academic curve, setting an imposing standard for future scholarship on the Arab Spring and gender across the Middle East and North Africa. This engrossing book breaks ground by using the study of men's experiences as a method for understanding contemporary societies." -- Mark LeVine, University of California * Irvine *"In a book that lives up to its name, anthropologist Ghannam explores what in means to be a man in the working-class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra . . . Her thick descriptions, amassed over 20 years of research, will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp at the lives of these individuals . . . By examining the construct of manhood, Ghannam is charting new territory in Middle Eastern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- M. L. Russell * CHOICE *"In this groundbreaking working, anthropologist Farha Ghannam utilizes 20 years of field research in the working class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra to deconstruct the notion of masculinity . . . [T]his work is a huge step forward in the field of Middle East Studies. Little work has been done on masculinity in general, and even less on what it means for the ordinary man." -- Mona L. Russell * Middle East Journal *"Farha Ghannam skillfully weaves the life stories of Egyptian men with an important accounting of the precarious balance between genders. This is a masterful treatise on masculinity in the Middle East and a timely contribution to understanding the Arab Spring and the socio-political changes facing the region. A book not to be missed." -- Sherine Hafez, University of California * Riverside *"Informed by nineteen years of field research in the same Cairo neighborhood, anthropologist Farha Ghannam's Live and Die Like a Man offers readers an incredibly well-rounded and dynamic portrait of the making (and remaking) of Egyptian working-class men that is at once intimate in its approach and capacious in its analytic reach . . . [The] explicitness of her critique in Live and Die Like a Man highlights the maturation of Ghannam's own scholarly voice . . . Its careful use of 'stories' to illustrate central theoretical claims makes it highly accessible for students, and its link to the 2011 uprising and (some of) its aftermath offers a way of understanding mass mobilization that is largely absent from most analysis and deeply convincing. Ghannam's insights, carefully wrought through the particular, have broad analytic reach and theoretical significance. Equally valuable for scholars and for teachers, Live and Die Like a Man is essential reading." -- Stacey Philbrick Yadav * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"In Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt, anthropologist Farha Ghannam offers a compelling longitudinal study of masculinity in a lower- and middle-income neighborhood in Cairo known as al-Zawiya . . . Ghannam does a wonderful job showing the nuances of masculinity, as well as the complexities and contingencies of the masculine trajectory over time. Well written and accessible, Live and Die Like a Man would be an excellent texts for undergraduate classes, particularly those that aim to dispel stereotypes characterizing Middle Eastern men as macho and violent. This ethnography makes a welcome addition to a growing body of masculinity studies in the contemporary Middle East." -- Rachel Newcomb * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Written in lucid prose and rife with Egyptian Arabic words and phrases that are translated and explained not in endnotes but in body paragraphs, Ghannam draws chiefly on participant observations rather than interviews . . . The result is a rich ethnography that shows rather than merely tells, and makes productive use of the author's long-standing involvement with the community in al-Zäwiya al-Hamra. Overall, this is a captivating study of working-class masculinities in Egypt and makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of the region as well as to masculinity and gender studies." -- Kristin V. Monroe * Review of Middle East Studies *"With its focus on masculinity, Farha Ghannam's thoughtful ethnography, Live and Die Like a Man, makes important interventions into the anthropological scholarship on gender, childhood, and family in the Middle East . . . Her ethnographic sensibility perfectly grasps the dynamic and complex intertwining of male and female ways of being and self-presentation and how that interrelationship forms men's lives." -- Nefissa Naguib * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Manliness and Its Discontents The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity 19001930
Book SynopsisIn a new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.
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University of Pennsylvania Press Metaphors of Masculinity
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University of Pennsylvania Press Our Living Manhood
Book SynopsisIn Our Living Manhood, Rolland Murray examines how James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Oliver Killens, and other writers challenged the Black Power movement's political commitment to masculinity in the 1960s.Trade Review"Clearly written and persuasively argued, Our Living Manhood makes a notable contribution to the long-standing critique of male supremacy in Black Nationalism by helping to complicate that critique, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of gender/sexuality studies for understanding African American literature and culture." * Marlon Ross, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered Chapter 1. My Father's Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority Chapter 2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance Chapter 3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting Chapter 4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity Conclusion: Masculine Legacies Notes Index Acknowledgments
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University of Pennsylvania Press On the Importance of Being an Individual in
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt''s notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it.Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy''s new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, BaldassTrade Review"An elegant, erudite, and polemical book that most assuredly makes an important contribution to the literature on Renaissance individuality and male identity." * James R. Farr, Purdue University *"Douglas Biow offers a spirited and refreshing account of the ways Renaissance men carved out space for individuality over against the norms of their professions and communities." * John Jeffries Martin, Duke University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction ART I. PROFESSIONALISM Chapter 1. Professionally Speaking: The Value of Ars and Arte in Renaissance Italy—Reflections on the Historical Reach of Techne Chapter 2. Reflections on Professions and Humanism in Renaissance Italy and the Humanities Today PART II. MAVERICKS Chapter 3. Constructing a Maverick Physician in Print: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Leonardo Fioravanti's Writings Chapter 4. Visualizing Cleanliness, Visualizing Washerwomen in Venice and Renaissance Italy: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Jacopo Tintoretto's Jews in the Desert PART III. BEARDS Chapter 5. Facing the Day: Reflections on a Sudden Change in Fashion and the Magisterial Beard Chapter 6. Manly Matters: Reflections on Giordano Bruno's Candelaio and the Theatrical and Social Function of Beards in Sixteenth-Century Italy Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
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MW - Rutgers University Press Empowering Men of Color on Campus Building Student Community in Higher Education
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New York University Press Extravagant Abjection
Book SynopsisPart of the American Literatures Initiative Series 2011 Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language AssociationChallenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.Theorizing the relation between blackness and abjection by foregrounding often neglected depictions of the sexual exploitation and humiliation of men in works by James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, and Samuel R. Delany, Extravagant Abjection asks: If we're racialized through domination and abjection, what is the political, personal, and psychological potential in racialization-through-abjection? Using the figure of male rape as a lens through which to examine this question, Scott argues that blacTrade ReviewA powerful theoretical statement in the emerging field of black queer studies, Extravagant Abjection makes the bold claim that it is necessary to work through and not simply to & white wash the political, social, ideological, and psychological consequences of what Darieck Scott names & black abjection. Building upon the insights of the more articulate practitioners of bondage and submission, Sadism and Masochism, Scotts readings of key texts in twentieth century Black American literature are at once sophisticated, provocative, creative, and indeed titillating. This book will surely become a & dark classic. -- Robert Reid-Pharr,author of Once You Go BlackAccording to Darieck Scott, the awful legacies of racial difference and debasement are not inevitable. And so in Extravagant Abjection, he deftly paves the way for new understandings of the history and culture of black power and violence. His work is theoretically exciting and sophisticated, offering invaluable lessons: that the violent pressure of black historythe pressure of its terrible subordinationcan be relieved, often in unexpected ways. Scott helps us see, even in the most humiliating and violent of scenes, an entire horizon of other, sometimes pleasurable, possibilities of resistance. -- Michael Cobb,author of God Hates Fags[Scott] arrives at the provocative notion that it is the black body's status as brought into being by and through past trauma that makes it best positioned to tap the inherent powers of abjection. * American Literature *Extravagant Abjections suturing of bottoming and volitional powerlessness, a mere and indeterminate power, reframes a sexual politics that only recognizes a notion of freedom approaching an infinity curvethe liberatory horizon that queer theory as too often yearned for. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Blackness, Abjection, and Sexuality 1 Fanon's Muscles: (Black) Power Revisited2 "A Race That Could Be So Dealt With": Terror, Time, and (Black) Power3 Slavery, Rape, and the Black Male Abject Notes on Black (Power) Bottoms 4 The Occupied Territory: Homosexuality and History in Amiri Baraka's Black Arts 5 Porn and the N-Word: Lust, Samuel Delany's The Mad Man, and a Derangement of Body and Sense(s) Conclusion: Extravagant Abjection NotesIndex About the Author
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New York University Press Gun Crusaders
Book SynopsisOffers an inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism.Trade ReviewMelzer brilliantly integrates deep personal observation with data and theory to construct a three-dimensional portrait of the modern gun rights movement. In a wonderfully written, engaging, and scrupulously fair narrative, Melzers book makes a major contribution to our understanding of this tumultuous social movement and also happens to be a really good read. It's fresh, clear-eyed, and fair. Anyone wanting to understand the gun movement must read this book. -- Robert J. Spitzer,author of The Politics of Gun ControlMelzer takes us inside the NRA to reveal that more than gun controlmuch moreis at stake: a way of life and a definition of manhood that members feel is disintegrating in their hands... [This is] a book that is both balanced and brave, critical and yet compassionate to men who have so lost their way that their guns offer their last tenuous hold on their identity. -- Michael Kimmel,author of GuylandThis book is well written, and raises interesting issues about the transformation of interest groups in a period of polarized politics. -- Clyde Wilcox * Political Science Quarterly *The author argues a very credible thesis: that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is more than a single-interest group defending the right to own and bear arms. The NRA should also be understood as a social movement organization dedicated broadly to preserving traditional, conservative values. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I Defending Guns, Defending Masculinity 1 Frontier Masculinity, America's "Gun Culture," and the NRA 2 Why a Gun Movement? Part II Talking Guns, Talking Culture War 3 Framing Threats to Gun Rights 4 Under Attack 5 Fighting the Culture WarsPart III Committing to the NRA, Committing to the Right 6 The Politics of Commitment 7 Right and Far-Right Moral Politics 8 The Ties That Bind Epilogue: Tomorrow's NRA Appendix: Studying the NRA Notes Index About the Author
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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Unveiling Men
Book SynopsisMoving beyond rigid portrayals of Islamic patriarchy and female oppression, this book analyses debates about manhood in early twentieth-century Iran, particularly around questions of race and sexuality. DeSouza presents the larger implications of Pahlavi hegemonic masculinity in creating racialized male subjects and “productive” sexualities.
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University of Minnesota Press Black Boys Apart
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this sensitive, detailed ethnography, Freeden Blume Oeur takes readers into the world of all-male public schooling for African American boys. With clean, lucid prose and erudite analysis, Black Boys Apart challenges readers to rethink Black masculinity and education. Providing much-needed wisdom and humanity to the fractious school choice debate, this book is both timely and sure to make an enduring impact. An outstanding achievement."—Edward Morris, author of Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education"In Black Boys Apart, Freeden Blume Oeur demonstrates why he is one of the emerging go-to critical thinkers on the intersections of race and gender in schooling. In this descriptive and engaging book, we read of Blume Oeur’s bold multidisciplinary exploration and interrogation of the linkages among academic achievement, the politics of respectability, and the socialization of boys as men through dominant (and questionable) views of masculinity."—Prudence Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools"This book encourages the reader to think beyond traditional narratives, think more about the ‘hidden curriculum’ of schools, and understand the lived experiences of these young black men in his study."—New Books Network"The book brilliantly illustrates the surprising success of this holistic method of education, which mixes democratic empowerment, strict discipline — and intentional racial segregation and sex separation — with a warm, loving environment of Black brotherhood."—Chill Magazine"With the present-day emphasis on privatization, choice, and market-place solutions in the American school system, Freeden Blume Oeur’s work stands out as a timely and relevant piece of scholarship."—Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reform, Respectability, and the Crisis of Young Black Men1. A Tale of Two (Neoliberal) Schools: The Origins of Perry High and Northside Academy2. Contradictory Discourses: Separating Boys and Girls3. Teaching Black Boys: From Cultural Relevance to Culturally Irrelevant Latin4. Black Male Belonging: Race Leadership, Role Modeling, and Brotherhood5. Heroic Family Men and Ambitious Entrepreneurs: The Making of Black MenConclusion: Hoping and Hustling TogetherAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Interview and Student DataNotesBibliographyIndex
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Duke University Press Constructing the Black Masculine
Book SynopsisA major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick's 'Epistemology of the Closet'.Trade Review“A most impressive interrogation into the problematic of black masculine identity as it has manifested in the U.S. context from the late eighteenth century through the present day. Readers from across a range of disciplines will be uniformly impressed by the scope and dexterity of Wallace’s critical intelligence. This is an overwhelmingly admirable achievement and a very important book.”—Phillip Brian Harper, author of Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity“Highly original and deeply probing in its analyses into the intricacies of its topic, Constructing the Black Masculine is a timely and rewarding addition to the study of African American literature, American studies, and race and sexuality. Maurice O. Wallace has a lot to teach.”—Nellie McKay, coeditor of The Norton Anthology of African American LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Spectagraphia 1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity Part Two: No Hiding Place 2. “Are We Men?”: Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865 3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography 4. A Man’s Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being Part Three: Looking B(l)ack 5. “I’m Not Entirely What I Look Like”: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or Jimmy’s FBEye Blues 6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Room Afterword: “What Ails you Polyphemus?”: Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America
Book SynopsisRanging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, this title talks about what it means to be a man in Latin America. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, it illuminates the relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes.Trade Review“The essays in this volume represent a significant advance for our understanding of both the texture and obstinate endurance of inequality in Latin America. Building on recent breakthrough studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Changing Men and Masculinities opens up worlds of male experience, from the bedroom to the workplace. The volume confirms that masculinity is a useful, and indispensable, category of analysis.”—Greg Grandin, author of The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation”Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America stands on the frontier of gender studies. Its interdisciplinarity, broad historical scope, and multicountry coverage portray well the diversity of masculinities in Latin America.”—Elizabeth Dore, coeditor of Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America / Matthew C. Gutmann 1 Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity / Mara Viveros Vigoya 27 Urban Men and Masculinities Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood / Claudia Fonseca 61 Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico / Agustin Escobar Latapi 84 Malandros, Maria Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown / Francisco Ferrandiz 115 The Social Constructions of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males / Norma Fuller 134 Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City / Stanley Brandes 153 Representations and Practices Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965-74 / Florencia E. Mallon 179 Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer arana / Daniel Balderston 216 Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery's Decline in Brazil, 1850–90 / Peter M. Beattie 233 Verguenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives / Miguel Diaz Barriga 256 Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador / X. Andrade 281 Sexuality and Paternity Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexualities in Brazil / Richard Parker 307 Men at Home?: Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers/ Jose Olavarria 333 Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico / Hector Carrillo 351 Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 370 Contributors 393 Index 399
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Duke University Press The Manly Masquerade
Book SynopsisIntends to unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence - medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and, plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso and Ariosto.Trade Review"Valeria Finucci’s book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less ‘luminous’ aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture."—Armando Maggi, author of Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology”Valeria Finucci is at it again, patrolling and illuminating the unstable boundaries of sex and gender in early modern Italian culture and literature. Relating canonical literary texts to the medical and legal culture of their times, she explores the fascination that spontaneous generation, cuckoldry, the maternal imagination, androgyny, and the deliberate manufacture of castrati held for early modern Italians—and still hold for us.”—Walter Stephens, author of Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of BeliefTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period 1 1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births 37 2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's La mandragola 79 3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 119 4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso 159 5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria 189 6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225 Selected Bibliography 281 Index 307
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Duke University Press Native Men Remade
Book SynopsisA story of how gender, culture, class, and personality intersect as a group of indigenous Hawaiian men work to overcome the dislocations of colonial history. It analyzes how middle-aged, middle-class, and mixed-race members assert a warrior masculinity through practices including martial arts, wood-carving, and cultural ceremonies.Trade Review“Native Men Remade is a tour de force. Ty P. Kāwika Tengan combines participant observation and archival and oral history in a study of the Hale Mua, a group of Hawaiian men who have revived ancient martial arts, carving skills, and rituals. As both member and ethnographer, Tengan engages passionate debates about the ‘emasculation’ of Hawaiian men by colonialism and tourism, the contested place of men and women in nationalism, and feminist critiques of Hawaiian patriarchy and gender violence. For Hawaiian peoples navigating their future, he suggests there are ‘more islands of hope than of despair.’”—Margaret Jolly, Head of the Gender Relations Centre, The Australian National University“This book concerns a distinctive Hawaiian men’s movement dedicated to decolonizing male consciousness by means of ritualized physical disciplines modeled after historically resonant warrior images. The writing is powerful, and the point of view is a compelling blend of interpretive humility and analytical forthrightness. Offering a wealth of insider testimony drawn from detailed interviews and from his own engaged experience in the Hale Mua, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan makes contemporary Hawaiian struggles and sensibilities accessible to non-Hawaiians by contextualizing them historically, culturally, and comparatively. This work will interest scholars of gender, race, and postcolonial cultures, as well as both academic and non-specialist readers interested in the contemporary Pacific.”—Rena Lederman, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Lele i Ka Pō 1 1. Engagements with Modernity 33 2. Re-membering Nationhood and Koa at the Temple of State 65 3. Pu'ukoholā: At the Mound of the Whale 93 4. Kā i Mua—Cast into the Men's House 125 5. Narrating Kānanka: Talk Story, Place, and Identity 163 Conclusion: The Journeys of Hawaiian Men 199 Appendix: 'Awa Talk Story at Pani, 2005 219 Notes 229 Glossary of Hawaiian Words 239 References 247 Index 267
£76.50
Duke University Press Working Out Egypt
Book SynopsisDescribes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period.Trade Review“Working Out Egypt is an extraordinarily accomplished book. Wilson Chacko Jacob offers a highly original history of effendi masculinity based on a sophisticated interpretation of a vast, multisited archive. His analysis speaks directly to a number of concerns animating not only history but also feminist, cultural, and postcolonial studies. It encompasses colonial modernity and Egyptian specificity, masculinity and the quest for a normative social/sexual order, print culture and its collision with imperial globality, and the performative processes through which nations and their national imaginaries unfold.”—Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism“This is a pioneering book that probes the relationship between colonialism, nationalism, and masculinity in fresh and exciting ways. Through a careful examination of Egyptian and British popular and political culture of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Wilson Chacko Jacob tells a complex story of how Egyptian national subjectivity was crafted with and against colonial tropes. Working Out Egypt is essential reading for scholars and students of history, postcoloniality, sexuality, gender, subject formation, and Middle East studies.”—Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject “Working Out Egypt blends class-conscious social history with cutting edge reconceptualizations of biopolitical sovereignty and gender performativity – and it does so while avoiding the persistent Eurocentrism of many of the scholars influenced by Foucault and Agamben and shattering the frames of cultural relativism that have limited some recent queer and postcolonial scholarship. . . . Jacob’s monograph stands both as a remarkably original study of the gendering of colonial modernity and as an innovative contribution to theories of subjectivity.” -- Paul Amar * Social History *“Working Out Egypt is based on extensive archival research and a wide array of materials including British and Egyptian official documents, Olympic archives, biographies, magazine and newspaper articles, letters from readers and advice columns, novels, films, postcards, cartoons, and photographs. The book is framed by an equally impressive range of scholarly debates on empire, postcoloniality, nationalism, modernity, orientalism, liberalism, subject-formation, gender and sexuality, historiography, and representation…. This is a rich and multilayered book whose queries into the aporias of modern subjectivity have implications and relevance that extend beyond the case of modern Egypt. It will be an extremely valuable text to students as well as teachers of colonialism, postcoloniality, modernity, gender, and sexuality.” -- Nadia Guessous * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“Wilson Chacko Jacob’s insightful and analytically rich book... draws from Foucault’s later work to explore how caring for the self played a transformative role in constituting a new political subject in modern Egypt…. The novelty and sophistication of Working Out Egypt, however, lies not only in its bringing together of subject formation, the body, and masculinity. The book’s virtues also lie in its willingness to explore an understudied and underappreciated subject matter: modern sports and physical culture. Jacob illustrates that taking sports and physical culture seriously can provide a novel approach to the discourse of masculinity and its institutionalization.” -- Murat Cihan Yildiz * Arab Studies Journal *“Through his impeccable research, meticulous footnotes, and complex theoretical interventions…, Jacob has animated and enriched studies of Middle East masculinity in an unprecedented manner.” -- Hibba Abugideiri * American Historical Review *“Working Out Egypt stands as an innovative book on a central theme (masculinity) in postcolonial gender/sexuality studies…[A] highly successful effort that goes a long way toward diversifying scholarship on the colonial period in the Middle East and North Africa.” -- Mehmet Karabela * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Imagination: Projecting British Masculinity 27 2. Genealogy: Mustafa Kamil and Effendi Masculinity 44 3. Institution: Physical Culture and Self-Government 65 4. Association: Scouting, Freedom, Violence 92 5. Games: International Culture and Desiring Bodies 125 6. Communication: Sex, Gender, and Norms of Physical Culture 156 7. Fashion: Global Affects of Colonial Modernity 186 8. Knowledge: Death, Life, and the Sovereign Other 225 Notes 263 Bibliography 359 Index 409
£89.10
Duke University Press Working Out Egypt
Book SynopsisDescribes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period.Trade Review“Working Out Egypt is an extraordinarily accomplished book. Wilson Chacko Jacob offers a highly original history of effendi masculinity based on a sophisticated interpretation of a vast, multisited archive. His analysis speaks directly to a number of concerns animating not only history but also feminist, cultural, and postcolonial studies. It encompasses colonial modernity and Egyptian specificity, masculinity and the quest for a normative social/sexual order, print culture and its collision with imperial globality, and the performative processes through which nations and their national imaginaries unfold.”—Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism“This is a pioneering book that probes the relationship between colonialism, nationalism, and masculinity in fresh and exciting ways. Through a careful examination of Egyptian and British popular and political culture of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Wilson Chacko Jacob tells a complex story of how Egyptian national subjectivity was crafted with and against colonial tropes. Working Out Egypt is essential reading for scholars and students of history, postcoloniality, sexuality, gender, subject formation, and Middle East studies.”—Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject “Working Out Egypt blends class-conscious social history with cutting edge reconceptualizations of biopolitical sovereignty and gender performativity – and it does so while avoiding the persistent Eurocentrism of many of the scholars influenced by Foucault and Agamben and shattering the frames of cultural relativism that have limited some recent queer and postcolonial scholarship. . . . Jacob’s monograph stands both as a remarkably original study of the gendering of colonial modernity and as an innovative contribution to theories of subjectivity.” -- Paul Amar * Social History *“Working Out Egypt is based on extensive archival research and a wide array of materials including British and Egyptian official documents, Olympic archives, biographies, magazine and newspaper articles, letters from readers and advice columns, novels, films, postcards, cartoons, and photographs. The book is framed by an equally impressive range of scholarly debates on empire, postcoloniality, nationalism, modernity, orientalism, liberalism, subject-formation, gender and sexuality, historiography, and representation…. This is a rich and multilayered book whose queries into the aporias of modern subjectivity have implications and relevance that extend beyond the case of modern Egypt. It will be an extremely valuable text to students as well as teachers of colonialism, postcoloniality, modernity, gender, and sexuality.” -- Nadia Guessous * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“Wilson Chacko Jacob’s insightful and analytically rich book... draws from Foucault’s later work to explore how caring for the self played a transformative role in constituting a new political subject in modern Egypt…. The novelty and sophistication of Working Out Egypt, however, lies not only in its bringing together of subject formation, the body, and masculinity. The book’s virtues also lie in its willingness to explore an understudied and underappreciated subject matter: modern sports and physical culture. Jacob illustrates that taking sports and physical culture seriously can provide a novel approach to the discourse of masculinity and its institutionalization.” -- Murat Cihan Yildiz * Arab Studies Journal *“Through his impeccable research, meticulous footnotes, and complex theoretical interventions…, Jacob has animated and enriched studies of Middle East masculinity in an unprecedented manner.” -- Hibba Abugideiri * American Historical Review *“Working Out Egypt stands as an innovative book on a central theme (masculinity) in postcolonial gender/sexuality studies…[A] highly successful effort that goes a long way toward diversifying scholarship on the colonial period in the Middle East and North Africa.” -- Mehmet Karabela * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Imagination: Projecting British Masculinity 27 2. Genealogy: Mustafa Kamil and Effendi Masculinity 44 3. Institution: Physical Culture and Self-Government 65 4. Association: Scouting, Freedom, Violence 92 5. Games: International Culture and Desiring Bodies 125 6. Communication: Sex, Gender, and Norms of Physical Culture 156 7. Fashion: Global Affects of Colonial Modernity 186 8. Knowledge: Death, Life, and the Sovereign Other 225 Notes 263 Bibliography 359 Index 409
£27.90
Duke University Press Affirmative Reaction
Book SynopsisAffirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States.Trade Review“Affirmative Reaction is a remarkable transvaluation of the terms by which we currently understand post-Fordist white masculinist hegemony. Not an unmarked norm but a particularized, and particularly abject, new identity category, white maleness is here submitted to fresh, riveting, lucid, and eye-opening analysis. An exemplary account of recent U.S. mediascapes.”—Eric Lott, author of The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual“In analyses that move deftly across economic, political, and affective registers, Hamilton Carroll draws out the dynamics of early-twenty-first-century backlash that have produced the popularity of texts as different as Brokeback Mountain and American Chopper, and draws our attention to the nuances to be found in unexpected places such as comic-book responses to 9/11. Affirmative Reaction can be read as a set of smart, related essays on a common theme, but it is also a tight, cohesive argument about recent developments in white U.S. masculinity. It will be welcomed by specialists in cultural studies, film studies, and gender studies, and it intervenes in the research conversation about the constitution of whiteness that continues in and across several fields and disciplines.”—Glenn Hendler, Director of the American Studies Program, Fordham University“Affirmative Reaction does a good job of critiquing privileged media archetypes. . . . This book will help forward an important dialogue about the contemporary status of white ethnicity, the masculinisation of class and nation, and the development of identity politics in the United States. . . .” -- Timothy Laurie * Critical Race and Whiteness Studies *“Carroll is at his best when he is drawing out the substance of his multifarious analyses in order to do some theory making about contemporary white masculinity. The most powerful moments of critical insight come when he skillfully jumps from Keifer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer in 24 to George W. Bush’s speeches on the War on Terror to Judith Butler and back to Bauer again, underscoring the connections between ideas that are neither obvious nor simple.” -- Patrick Ryan Grzanka * Men and Masculinities *“Carroll offers a theoretically sophisticated account of some novel recent manoeuvres of white masculine identity, which provides a powerful framework for the critical interrogation of the texts he explores, and many others.” -- James Zborowski * Journal of Gender Studies *“Carroll’s work makes a valuable contribution to literature on contemporary masculinity and its discontents. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“I found Carroll’s reading coherent, convincing and resonant in many respects with the ethnographies and qualitative interviewing projects on American whiteness with which I am more familiar. Addressing whiteness as contingent, heterogeneous and rooted in cultural, political and economic shifts is a project in which a number of scholars are already engaged, and Carroll’s text is a very welcome contribution to this field.” -- Steve Garner * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: White Masculinities and the Politics of Representation 1 Part I. 9-11/24-7Affective Time and the War on Terror 1. Jack Bauer's Extraordinary Rendition: Neoliberal Melodrama and the Ethics of Torture 27 2. Future Perfect: "Everyday Heroes" and the New Exceptionalism 49 Part II. Embodying DifferenceWhiteness, Class, and the Postindustrial Subject 3. Men's Soaps: Automotive Television Programming and Contemporary Working-Class Masculinities 77 4. "My Skin Is It Startin' to Work in My Benefit Now?": Eminem's White Trash Aesthetic 101 Part III. Daddy's HomeFamily Melodrama and the Fictions of State 5. The Fighting Irish: Ethnic Whiteness and Million Dollar Baby 131 6. Romancing the Nation: Family Melodrama and the Sentimental Logics of Neoliberalism 157 Notes 181 Bibliography 201 Index 213
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Redundant Masculinities
Book SynopsisRedundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called ''crisis of masculinity'' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard. Looks at how the labour market is changing. Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities. Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity. Trade Review"This book will appeal to a wide audience. It so adroitly sums up the state of play in a number of arenas: the contemporary UK economy and the future of work, current debates about gender and identity, the “crisis” of masculinity, and the emerging “problem” of white, working-class boys floundering to hold down jobs and identities that are increasingly ‘redundant’." --Rosemary Pringle, Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton, UK "Much has been written about the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' but rarely have its contours been charted in such as precise way and with such clear empathy for those at its cutting edge." --Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK "I recommend , and sincerely hope, that this book is widely read, inside and outside academia." (Enviroment and Planning D: Society and Space) "Linda McDowell has produced a highly readable and accessible book, packed with rich and original empirical data, and written with a lightness of touch that belies the complexity of the theoretical debates pulled together within it. Redundant Masculinities combines an impressive synthesis of contemporary theoretical debates and perspectives, with a thorough empirical methodology to produce a first-class piece of applied research." (Work, Employment and Society) "McDowell offers a groundbreaking and often intensely sympathetic portrait of the ruptures and fragmentations of white, working class male hegemony under neoliberalism. Through deft use of narrative and analysis, she humanizes masculinity and masculine development in a manner heretofore rarely seen in sociological research." (Area 2005, vol 34/4)Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class. 2. The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities. 3. The Contemporary Crisis Of Masculinity: It's Hard To Be(Come) A Man or The Problem of/for Boys. 4. Living on The Edge: Marginal Lives In Cambridge and Sheffield. 5. Leaving School: Pathways To Employment and Further Education. 6. Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners. 7. Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, The Excluded and Escape Attempts. 8. Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities. 9. Conclusions: What Is To Be Done About Boys? Postscript. Appendix 1: Research Methodology. Appendix 2: The Participants. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Masculinity Lessons
Book SynopsisAs such, the book is ideal both as a primary text in women's and gender studies courses and as a reference for faculty and students outside the discipline applying gender issues to their teaching and research.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Engaging the Issue: Masculinity and Women's and Gender StudiesChapter 1. Making Masculinities: Book ReviewsChapter 2. Reflections on "Male Bashing"Chapter 3. Feminist Intentions: Race, Gender, and Power in a High School ClassroomChapter 4. The Biology and Philosophy of Race and Sex: A CourseChapter 5. Gender and Masculinity Texts: Consensus and Concerns for Feminist ClassroomsChapter 6. Student Responsiveness to Women's and Gender Studies Classes: The Importance of Initial Student Attitudes and Classroom RelationshipsPart II: Embodying Masculinity: Science and SocietyChapter 7. Reading Transgender, Rethinking Women's StudiesChapter 8. Biological Behavior? Hormones, Psychology, and SexChapter 9. Do Boys Have to Be Boys? Gender, Narrativity, and the John/Joan CaseChapter 10. Reading Sex and Temperament in Taiwan: Margaret Mead and Postwar Taiwanese FeminismPart III: Performing Social Expectations: The Domestic SceneChapter 11. "His Wife Seized His Prize and Cut It to Size": Folk and Popular Commentary on Lorena BobbittChapter 12. Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with ItChapter 13. "Non- Combatant's Shell- Shock": Trauma and Gender in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the NightChapter 14. Microcredit, Men, and MasculinityPart IV: Performing Social Expectations: The Public StageChapter 15. The Hillbilly Defense: Culturally Mediating U.S. Terror at Home and AbroadChapter 16. The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib: Hegemony, Spectacle, and the Global War on TerrorChapter 17. Uncle Sam Wants You to Trade, Invest, and Shop! Relocating the Battlefield in the Gendered Discourses of the Pre- and Early Post- 9/11 PeriodList of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Overflowing of Friendship
Book SynopsisUsing an array of personal and public writings, The Overflowing of Friendship will transform our understanding of early American manhood as well as challenge us to reconsider the ways we think about gender in this period.Trade ReviewA sophisticated analysis of sources that have long confused historians. Offering a thoughtful window onto the world of early American men, it demonstrates that sympathy and affection were important qualities for the founding fathers. -- John Gilbert McCurdy New England Quarterly Path-breaking... Godbeer has staked out bold ground with this book. Some early Americanists will surely scoff at the notion that sentimentality was relevant even in the macho arena of state formation, just as historians of sexuality will freeze at the inference that there is no sexual attraction or intimacy between these men. That one book could successfully intervene with both the oldest historiographical and the newest theoretical question is no small feat, but rather one for which Godbeer deserves the appreciation and admiration of his fellow historians. Journal of the Early Republic His beautifully crafted book breaks important new ground by connecting the ideal of sympathetic fraternal love to the reconceptualization of politics and political community in revolutionary America. -- Anne S. Lombard American Historical Review Godbeer follows his earlier studies of sexuality in early America with this impressively erudite study of male friendship, as expressed in letters, journals, and other literary forms, from the Puritan days to the early republic of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. -- George E. Haggerty Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Godbeer's evocative narrative format allows the reader to enter a lost world of sentiment and even physical affection between men. Godbeer complicates, as others have before him, the modern binaries of sexuality, but he also argues that male friendship provides a new way of seeing familiar faces and analyzing familiar events of colonial British North American history in the eighteenth century. -- Lisa Wilson Journal of American History I know of no other work that conveys so articulately and plangently the crucial role that male love played in the Revolutionary period. -- David Greven College Literature Godbeer compels readers to rethink early American gender roles and to look beyond the modern tendency to see sex in all verbal and physical expressions of love. -- Christine E. Sears Eighteenth-Century Studies A welcome addition to the literature on the formation of the United States. Through rigorous research, creative use of sources, and deep engagement with the work of scholars before him, The Overflowing of Friendship is a thoughtful and new look at the relationships between men of a certain class, race, time, and place. -- David A. Reichard H-Law, H-Net Reviews Godbeer stakes out a judiciously considered position at some length, emphasizing the very different ways early modern individuals understood sexuality and the possibilities of physical yet nonerotic love... An extremely readable work. -- Anne G. Myles Common-PlaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "The Friend of My Bosom": A Philadelphian Love Story2. "A Settled Portion of My Happiness": Friendship, Sentiment, and Eighteenth-Century Manhood3. "The Best Blessing We Know": Male Love and Spiritual Communion in Early America4. "A Band of Brothers": Fraternal Love in the Continental Army5. "The Overflowing of Friendship": Friends, Brothers, and Citizens in a Republic of SympathyEpilogueNotesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Man Kind
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking guide that provides men with tools to improve their mental health and well-being. Masculinity requires a redesign. Men exhibit higher rates of suicide, lower rates of help-seeking, higher rates of substance use and abuse, and higher rates of anger and violence. How can this change? In Man Kind, counseling psychologist Zachary Gerdes, PhD, provides a framework for improving men's mental health and well-being while redefining what it means to be masculine. Rather than following a traditional view of masculinity focused on stoicism, patriarchy, and self-reliance, Gerdes provides his LIFT modela road map to help men foster collaboration, understand when and how to utilize resources, and build mental resilience and flexibility. In this empowering book, Gerdes: helps men understand their thoughts and behaviors from a psychological perspective provides steps to help men change behaviors that are detrimental to their health and relationships outlines a model for healthy Table of ContentsForeword by Ronald Levant, PhDIntroductionPart I: LeverageChapter 1. The Lay of the LandChapter 2. Working Harder and SmarterChapter 3. Expanding the Wolfpack Part II: Intelligence and InsightChapter 4. EmotionalityChapter 5. Fight-or-Flight ClubPart III: FreedomChapter 6. Freedom from AddictionChapter 7. Sex, Relationships, and FreedomChapter 8. #MeToo and Manning UpChapter 9. Freedom from Implicit Bias and Identity DissonancePart IV: TruthChapter 10. Mental Health is Real HealthChapter 11. Biology and BeyondAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£20.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Hope Is Cut
Book SynopsisA detailed look at young men in urban Ethiopia that reveals the impact of economic development and globalizationTrade Review"Hope Is Cut is a thoughtful, penetrating, and moving analysis of the lives of young men in Ethiopia and how their predicament sheds light on existing debates in social theory regarding time, space, temporal narratives of progress, social stratification, youth, and neoliberal capitalism in Africa. Mains’s book not only looks at an issue of great importance in the contemporary world; it also connects the study of youth to issues in broader social theory. Hope Is Cut should have a wide array of potential applications and a long shelf life." —Jennifer Cole, Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, and author of Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in MadagascarTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Youth, Hope, Stratification, and Time1 The Historical and Cultural Roots of Unemployment and Stratification in Urban Ethiopia2 Imagining Hopeful Futures through Khat and Film3 “We Live Like Chickens; We Are Just Eating and Sleeping”: Progress, Education, and the Temporal Struggles of Young Men4 Working toward Hope: Youth Unemployment, Occupational Status, and Values5 Hopeful Exchanges: Reciprocity and Changing Dimensions of Urban Stratification6 Spatial Fixes to Temporal Problems: Migration, Social Relationships, and WorkConclusion: Sustaining Hope in the Present and the Futurenotesreferencesindex
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. No More Invisible Man
Book SynopsisMaking visible the experiences of black professional men in white male-dominated occupationsTrade Review"Conducting in-depth interviews with black lawyers, engineers, doctors, and bankers, she studies their challenges, obstacles, opportunities, and interactions with colleagues. As expected, the subjects experienced racism, discrimination, and stereotyping at work...Though their upward mobility gave them solidarity with men in their social group, they no longer had an affinity with working-class blacks. This solid academic study enhances our understanding of the difficulties professional black men face in the work place." - Publishers Weekly "For those who delve into Wingfield's book, the one thing they are guaranteed to come away with is a greater appreciation for the fact that for Black men who work professional jobs, the work involves so much more than just the work itself... [No More Invisible Man] shows how entrenched and lingering racial stereotypes about the intelligence and aims of Black men often make the professional jobs they work much more complicated than they would otherwise be." - Diverse "What is unique about this book is the fact that very few studies focus on the issue of the black professional male across varied white-dominated professional spaces. Wingfield offers insight into the nuances involved in black male experiences at the professional level. Briefly, this study encapsulates how tricky it is to navigate the corridors of professional settings when confronted with age-old stereotypes. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice, July 2013 "Wingfield's adeptness at relating each aspect of her findings to the wider scholarship on tokenism is one of this book's main strengths... [T]his is a revealing and thought-provoking study... [that] provides some new insights into this somewhat neglected topic." - Ethnic and Racial Studies "No More Invisible Man is an engaging and compelling book. Through interviews with forty-two doctors, lawyers, engineers, and bankers, Adia Harvey Wingfield illuminates the experiences of black male professionals and makes critical contributions to our understandings of inequalities in the workplace... One of Harvey Wingfield's strongest theoretical contributions is her documentation of the significance of black professional men's relationships with colleagues and potential mentors... Another significant theoretical contribution is Harvey Wingfield's description of the diversity of black professional men's responses to women in their male-dominated workplaces... [T]he book is superb. Harvey Wingfield's writing is fantastic and a pleasure to read... She walks the reader clearly and explicitly through the questions she brings to current theories, her comparisons between what theories predict and what her data reveal, and the theoretical and practical conclusions she draws... No More Invisible Man is a successful addition to Harvey Wingfield's legacy - and to intersectionality scholarship." - Gender & Society "Harvey makes an important contribution to the workplace literature, offering her concept of partial tokenization to a paradigm that fails to fully account for the experiences of professional black men... Harvey advance[s] current scholarship by focusing on groups that have until now only received scant attention and make clear the ways race and racism act as an impediment in the twenty-first-century workplace." - Sociological ForumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Tokenism Reassessed 2 The General Experience of Partial Tokenization 3 Interacting with Women in the Workplace 4 Other Men in the Workplace 5 Black Men and Masculinity 6 Emotional Performance Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. No More Invisible Man
Book SynopsisMaking visible the experiences of black professional men in white male-dominated occupationsTrade Review"Conducting in-depth interviews with black lawyers, engineers, doctors, and bankers, she studies their challenges, obstacles, opportunities, and interactions with colleagues. As expected, the subjects experienced racism, discrimination, and stereotyping at work...Though their upward mobility gave them solidarity with men in their social group, they no longer had an affinity with working-class blacks. This solid academic study enhances our understanding of the difficulties professional black men face in the work place." - Publishers Weekly "For those who delve into Wingfield's book, the one thing they are guaranteed to come away with is a greater appreciation for the fact that for Black men who work professional jobs, the work involves so much more than just the work itself... [No More Invisible Man] shows how entrenched and lingering racial stereotypes about the intelligence and aims of Black men often make the professional jobs they work much more complicated than they would otherwise be." - Diverse "What is unique about this book is the fact that very few studies focus on the issue of the black professional male across varied white-dominated professional spaces. Wingfield offers insight into the nuances involved in black male experiences at the professional level. Briefly, this study encapsulates how tricky it is to navigate the corridors of professional settings when confronted with age-old stereotypes. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice, July 2013 "Wingfield's adeptness at relating each aspect of her findings to the wider scholarship on tokenism is one of this book's main strengths... [T]his is a revealing and thought-provoking study... [that] provides some new insights into this somewhat neglected topic." - Ethnic and Racial Studies "No More Invisible Man is an engaging and compelling book. Through interviews with forty-two doctors, lawyers, engineers, and bankers, Adia Harvey Wingfield illuminates the experiences of black male professionals and makes critical contributions to our understandings of inequalities in the workplace... One of Harvey Wingfield's strongest theoretical contributions is her documentation of the significance of black professional men's relationships with colleagues and potential mentors... Another significant theoretical contribution is Harvey Wingfield's description of the diversity of black professional men's responses to women in their male-dominated workplaces... [T]he book is superb. Harvey Wingfield's writing is fantastic and a pleasure to read... She walks the reader clearly and explicitly through the questions she brings to current theories, her comparisons between what theories predict and what her data reveal, and the theoretical and practical conclusions she draws... No More Invisible Man is a successful addition to Harvey Wingfield's legacy - and to intersectionality scholarship." - Gender & SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Tokenism Reassessed 2 The General Experience of Partial Tokenization 3 Interacting with Women in the Workplace 4 Other Men in the Workplace 5 Black Men and Masculinity 6 Emotional Performance Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
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