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Book SynopsisThis book explores the dick pic in popular culture. Drawing from a range of disciplines, cultural analyses, lived experiences and theoretical approaches, this book explores the polysemous nature of dick pics. It looks at historical and contemporary theorisations of the penis/phallus, sexualisation and sexual objectification of the male body arguments, contemporary public discourses concerning the dick pic, and men's lived experiences of sexting and dick pic sending. Made possible by advances in mobile and digital technologies, the dick pic is often regarded as a harmful endemic, particularly in the wake of increased recognitions of sexual violence against women. However, very little has been done to explore dick pics outside of violence, pathological, and moral panic framings, such as the erotic possibilities and understandings of the dick pic, and the way certain discourses continue to work to shape and frame how we engage and understand the dick pic in contemporary culture.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1: Locating the Erotic (Heterosexual) Man: Sexualisation and Objectification Debates2: "A Disturbing and Perplexing Phenomenon": Popular Discourses of Dick Pics3: "Critiquing Your Dick Pics with Love": Reading Dick Pics Reparatively4: "That Feeling of to Be Wanted": Process, Relationality, and Desire5: "You Get What You Deserve:" Managing Risk and Backlash When Sending Dick PicsConclusion

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Book SynopsisA Critical Reflexive Approach to Sex Research is a methodologically focused book that offers rich insights into the, often secret, subjectivities of men who pay for sex in South Africa. The book centres on the interview context, outlining a critical reflexive approach to understanding how knowledge is co-produced by both the interviewer and the participant in research about sex. By attending to the complex dynamics of the research interview, this book examines the historic and contemporary relationship between sex work, race, coloniality, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, whorephobia, and discourses of disease and contagion. It draws on both empirical interview data and Huysamen's entries in her research journal to offer a unique approach to building critical reflexivity into every phase of the research process. The critical reflexive approach uses an assemblage of poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theories and practices which together provide tools to interrogaTrade Review'Useful for anyone interested in sexuality and gender, the process of interviewing is assessed at the micro level which shines a light on complex personal dynamics. Using case studies to illuminate the nature of the interviewer-participant encounter, this reflective account provides an intimate exposé of an area of methodology which is rarely discussed. A must for anyone planning or doing sensitive interviewing'.Teela Sanders, Professor of Criminology, University of Leicester, UKTable of Contents1.Setting the Scene: Researching Men Who Pay for Sex in South Africa 2. An Assemblage of Theories, Methods, and Practice: Towards a Critical Reflexive Approach 3. Reasons for Arriving: Confessions, Excitement, and Intimacy 4. Defenses and Desires in the Research Encounter 5. Out of Africa": Critical Reflexivity as Decolonial Method? 6. Using the Critical Reflexive Approach in Your Research

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume advances an emerging curiosity within accounts of military masculinities concerning the silences within, and disruptions to, our well-established and perhaps-too-comfortable understandings of, and empirical focal points for, military masculinities, gender, and war. The chapters were originally published in a special issueTable of Contents1. Beyond the hegemonic in the study of militaries, masculinities, and war Amanda Chisholm and Joanna Tidy 2. Re-thinking hegemonic masculinities in conflict-affected contexts Henri Myrttinen, Lana Khattab and Jana Naujoks 3. Clients, contractors, and the everyday masculinities in global private security Amanda Chisholm 4. Combat as a moving target: masculinities, the heroic soldier myth, and normative martial violence Katharine M. Millar and Joanna Tidy 5. Unmaking militarized masculinity: veterans and the project of military-to-civilian transition Sarah Bulmer and Maya Eichler 6. Problematizing military masculinity, intersectionality and male vulnerability in feminist critical military studies Marsha Henry 7. What’s the problem with the concept of military masculinities? Marysia Zalewski 8. Living archives and Cyprus: militarized masculinities and decolonial emerging world horizons Anna M. Agathangelou

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Book SynopsisMen, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships. It provides new insights into men as both perpetrators and victims of violence, as well as on how to involve men and boys in anti-violence work.The chapters explore partner violence from the perspectives of researchers, therapists, activists, organisations, media as well as men of different background and sexual orientation. Highlighting the distinct and ambivalent ways we relate to violence and masculinity, this timely volume provides nuanced approaches to men, masculinity and intimate partner violence in various societies in the global North and South.This book foregrounds scholarship on men and masculinities in the context of intimate partner violence. By doing so, it revitalises feminist theorising and research on partner abuse, and brings together the fields of masculiTable of Contents1. Introduction: What Has Masculinity to Do with Intimate Partner Violence?2. ‘A Life of Violence’: Some Theoretical/Political/Personal Accountings on ‘Masculinities’ and ‘Intimate Partner Violence’3. Theorising Masculinity and Intimate Partner Violence4. Men from the South: Feminist, Decolonial and Intersectional Perspectives on Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence5. The Rape Capital or the Most Gender-equal Country in the World? Masculinity, Hybridity and Young Men’s Intimate Partner Violence in Sweden6. Masculinist Discourses on Intimate Partner Violence: Antifeminist Men Defending White Heterosexual Male Supremacy7. Behind Closed Doors: Hegemonic Masculinities, Romantic Love, and Sexual Violence in Gay Relationships8. Exploring Trans Men’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence Through the Lens of Cisgenderism9. Male Victims of Violence and Men’s Rights Struggles: A Perfect Match?10. Considering ‘Treatment’ and Gender in Programmes for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators11. Engaging Men and Boys in Violence Prevention12. Positioning as a Tool in Work with Fathers Who Have Been Violent in the Family13. Re-Envisioning Interventions for Partner Violent Men in the Global South Through Decolonial Feminist Praxes14. Rethinking Masculinities, Culture and Interventions with Partner-violent Men in Brazil

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Book SynopsisThis handbook provides a much-needed holistic overview of disability and sexuality research and scholarship. With authors from a wide range of disciplines and representing a diversity of nationalities, it provides a multi-perspectival view that fully captures the diversity of issues and outlooks.Organised into six parts, the contributors explore long-standing issues such as the psychological, interpersonal, social, political and cultural barriers to sexual access that disabled people face and their struggle for sexual rights and participation. The volume also engages issues that have been on the periphery of the discourse, such as sexual accommodations and support aimed at facilitating disabled people''s sexual well-being; the socio-sexual tensions confronting disabled people with intersecting stigmatised identities such as LGBTBI or asexual; and the sexual concerns of disabled people in the Global South. It interrogates disability and sexuality from diverse perspectives, froTrade Review"The study of disability and sexuality is thriving and this handbook is one of the most important volumes to date for scholars, students, and activists interested in the field. Focusing on a diverse, interdisciplinary range of issues from impressively global perspectives, the volume is indispensable for thinking about sexuality and disability in theory, representation, and policy." Robert McRuer is Professor of English at George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA."It is a pleasure for me to offer my full endorsement of The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality by Russell Shuttleworth and Linda Mona. Although issues relating to sexuality and disability have been in the literature for many years, this collection provides an astonishing array of current cultural, disability affirmative perspectives on the topic. This is must reading for anyone interested in understanding the linkage between these concepts." Stanley Ducharme, Ph.D., Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine and Urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA. USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Contextualising Disability and Sexuality Studies. PART 1 Theoretical frames and intersections. 1 Theorising disabled people’s sexual, intimate and erotic lives/current theories for disability and sexuality. 2 Theoretical developments: Queer theory meets crip theory. 3 Thinking differently about the sexual capacities of bodies with Deleuze and the case of infertility amongst men with Down syndrome. 4 A critical rethinking of sexuality and dementia: A prolegomenon to future work in critical dementia studies and critical disability studies. 5 Combating old ideas and building identity: Sexual identity development in people with disabilities. 6 Sexuality and disability in Brazil: Contributions to the promotion of agency and social justice. PART 2: Subjugated histories and negotiating traditional discourses. 7 Sexuality, disability, and madness in California’s eugenics era. 8 Disability rights through reproductive justice: Eugenic legacies in the abortion wars. 9 Sexuality and the disregard of lived reality: The sexual abuse of children and young people with disabilities. 10 Sexuality and physical disability: Perspectives and practice within Orthodox Judaism. PART 3: Politics, policies and legal frames across the world. 11 Sexual citizenship, Disability policy and facilitated sex in Sweden. 12 Access to sexual and reproductive health for people with disabilities in Zimbabwe. 13 "Tick the straight box": Lesbian, gay, bisexual & transgender (LGBT+) people with intellectual disabilities in the UK. 14 Sexuality and sexual rights of young adults with intellectual disability in Central Java, Indonesia. 15 Advance consent and network consent. PART 4: Representation, performance and media. 16 Missing in action: Desire, dwarfism and getting it on/off/up…A critique and extension of disability aesthetics. 17 Sex, love and disability on screen. 18 Dynamics of disability and sexuality: Some African literary representations. 19 Flaunting towards otherwise: Queercrip porn, access intimacy and leaving evidence. 20 Desexualising disabled people in the news media. PART 5 Sexual narratives and (inter)personal perspectives. 21 Understanding the lived experience of transgender youth with disabilities. 22 Flowing desires underneath the chastity belt: Sexual re-exploration journeys of women with changed bodies. 23 (Il)licit sex among PWDs in Trinidad & Tobago: Sexual negotiation or compromise. 24 Reimaging sexuality in the disability discourse in South Asia. 25 Disability and asexuality? 26 Through a personal lens: A participatory action research project challenging myths of physical disability and sexuality in South Africa. 27 "That’s my story": Transforming sexuality education by, for and with people with intellectual disabilities. PART 6: Accommodation, support and sexual well being. 28 Sexual wellness for older persons with a disability: A life-course perspective. 29 Toward sexual autonomy and well-being for persons with upper limb mobility limitations: The role of masturbation and sex toys. 30 Paid sexual services available for people with disability: Exploring the range of modalities offered throughout the world. 31 Promoting sexual well-being for women with disabilities through family-centred integrated behavioural healthcare. 32 Occupational therapy’s engagement with empowering disability and sexuality. 33 Disability and social work: Partnerships to promote sexual well-being. 34 Intersections of disability, sexuality, and spirituality within psychological treatment of people with disabilities.

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Book SynopsisSexuality is arguably the most under-researched of all diversity areas in work organizations. This book brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors: the Emergency Services, the Civil Service and the Banking sector.   Here sexual minorities freely recount stories of their own workplace experiences.  Three main themes emerge from the data: silence, disclosure and response. Issues of voice and silence are particularly pertinent for those who are not part of the dominant heterosexual discourse; issues of disclosure are highly important for sexual minorities for whom coming out is a major defining moment; and, highly unusually, in this book readers get an insight into how people respond to sexual minorities, as other employees'' reactions to stories are related too. This book makes a significant contribution to our unTable of ContentsIntroduction. The Power of Stories. Putting the Stories in Context. The Working Closet. Coming Out at Work. Silent Lives. Working Out. Concluding Stories. Postscript: Researching Sexual Stories

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Book SynopsisThis book presents an international perspective on the involvement of men in the lives of young children across a range of differing contexts and from a number of disciplinary perspectives. It takes as a starting point the importance of positive male engagement with young children so as to ensure their optimal development. Past research has revealed however the complexity of studying these relationships and the barriers that exist in families & society which impede the implementation of positive relationships. This book is developed to use new research and educational thinking in order to explore the lived experiences of both fathers and men in edu-care and in addition to considers what it is to be a man in the 21st century. As such this work is pertinent, timely and responsive to issues of concern to all those professionals, policy makers and practitioners within education and family services and also to the public in general. The central purpose of the book is to contribute to the debate around key issues connected to the ways in which men can develop secure professional and familial attachments to young children for whom they have a responsibility.This book was published as a special issue of Early Child Development and Care.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Men in caring, parenting and teaching: exploring men’s roles with young children Roy Evans and Deborah Jones 2. Supporting men as fathers, caregivers, and educators Alice Sterling Honig 3. Constructing identities: perceptions and experiences of male primary headteachers Deborah Jones 4. Gender and professionalism: a critical analysis of overt and covert curricula Michel Vandenbroeck and Jan Peeters 5. Entrances and exits: changing perceptions of primary teaching as a career for men Mary Thornton and Patricia Bricheno 6. New Zealand men’s participation in early years work Sarah-Eve Farquhar 7. Father involvement in early childhood programs: review of the literature Glen Palm and Jay Fagan 8. ‘Something in it for dads’: getting fathers involved with Sure Start Carol Potter and John Carpenter 9. Why fathers are not attracted to family learning groups? Flora Macleod 10. Predicting preschoolers’ attachment security from fathers’ involvement, internal working models, and use of social support Lisa A. Newland, Diana D. Coyl and Harry Freeman 11. Father beliefs as a mediator between contextual barriers and father involvement Harry Freeman, Lisa A. Newland and Diana D. Coyl 12. Fathers: the ‘invisible’ parents Olivia N. Saracho and Bernard Spodek 13. Fathers’ and young children’s literacy experiences Olivia N. Saracho 14. Men and motors? Fathers’ involvement in children’s travel John Barker

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Book SynopsisImages and ideas associated with masculinity are forever in flux. In this book, Donald Moss addresses the never-ending effort of menâregardless of sexual orientationâto shape themselves in relation to the unstable notion of masculinity.Part 1 looks at the lifelong labor faced by boys and men of assessing themselves in relation to an always shifting, always receding, ideal of masculinity. In Part 2, Moss considers a series of nested issues regarding homosexuality, homophobia and psychoanalysis. Part 3 focuses on the interface between the body experienced as a private entity and the body experienced as a public entityâthe body experienced as oneâs own and the body subject to the judgments, regulations and punishments of the external world. The final part looks at men and violence. Men must contend with the entwined problems of regulating aggression and figuring out its proper level, aiming to avoid both excess and insufficiency. This section focuses on excessive aggression and Trade ReviewDonald Moss’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man is undoubtedly one of the most important books of the past decade on the complexities of the development of male gender identity. The book, as reflected in its title, offers no "solutions" to the questions it raises; rather, it examines the problem of gender identity from a number of vantage points, each of which complements, but also complicates, the others. What for me is a particular pleasure in reading this book is the writing itself—writing that is often used to describe some of the author’s own experiences as a boy faced with the daunting task faced by all boys in their efforts to grow up to be a man in one’s own terms. - Thomas Ogden, Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California Donald Moss has written a brilliant, emotionally unsettling and brave book. The ostensive topic of Moss’ book is a close look at masculinity, but actually this book is an examination of "masculinities" that turn the standard normative forms of gender inside out. In Moss’ project, the canonical has become symptomatic. Through the psychoanalytic lens he deploys so deeply, Moss illuminates how much all our struggles with desire and loss inevitably overwhelm us in the project of forming and becoming selves, with dangerous and destructive consequences. We are all inevitably displacing and expelling those aspects of body and mind that frighten and shame us into the bodies and lives and minds of weaker and more vulnerable people. This is Moss’ original and potent way of thinking through misogyny, homophobia, and the often murderous attitudes toward difference and otherness, including "trans" experience. Moss asks us to see that these refusals and disavowals of our complex humanity have enormous and dangerous consequences individually, collectively, and politically - Adrienne Harris, PhD, New York UniversityFascinating, thought-provoking exploration of the notion of masculinity, written in an intelligent, accessible style - Michael Feldman, Supervising and Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society"The title of this important book echoes both Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Henry Louis Gates Jr's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Like Stevens and Gates, Donald Moss offers multiple perspectives: being a man is not simply a choice to be more or less like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Liberace. Each man has internalised an ideal based on disavowals and refusals of other male bodies and behaviours. The author combines his childhood reminiscences of illness and classroom embarrassment, deep personal reflection, his father's war stories, theoretical overviews and case studies from his psychoanalytic practice. This way of writing is common to a range of books on masculinity, but the stylistic mix reflects the volatility he seeks to address." – David Kennedy, Times Higher Education"This scholarly yet incisive and accessible book addresses the unstable notion of masculinity and the ways in which both hetero- and homosexual man seek to shape themselves in relation to the precarious nature of being a man. ... The writing is enriched by the author's willingness to share several of his own formative experiences in facing the daunting task of searching for the ways to grow up as a man with a mind of his own." - Michael J. Diamond, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies"It is not only Moss’s scholarship and the depth of his theoretical and clinical insights that make the book bold; it is also that, in looking at a man in different ways, Moss at times works like a memoirist whouses his own experience to deepen consideration of masculinity." Sidney H. Phillips for The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 2014"This unusual, vital, and in places demanding book is about the contemporary shifting scene of psychoanalytic assessment of "masculinity."...Moss has offered many more than "13 ways" of looking, of profoundly and richly perceiving his own topic, men. The book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of gender, and cultural critics.Summing Up: Highly recommended."- R. H. Balsam, Yale University, for CHOICE, January 2013Donald Moss’s Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man is undoubtedly one of the most important books of the past decade on the complexities of the development of male gender identity. The book, as reflected in its title, offers no "solutions" to the questions it raises; rather, it examines the problem of gender identity from a number of vantage points, each of which complements, but also complicates, the others. What for me is a particular pleasure in reading this book is the writing itself—writing that is often used to describe some of the author’s own experiences as a boy faced with the daunting task faced by all boys in their efforts to grow up to be a man in one’s own terms. - Thomas Ogden, Personal and Supervising Analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern CaliforniaDonald Moss has written a brilliant, emotionally unsettling and brave book. The ostensive topic of Moss’ book is a close look at masculinity, but actually this book is an examination of "masculinities" that turn the standard normative forms of gender inside out. In Moss’ project, the canonical has become symptomatic. Through the psychoanalytic lens he deploys so deeply, Moss illuminates how much all our struggles with desire and loss inevitably overwhelm us in the project of forming and becoming selves, with dangerous and destructive consequences. We are all inevitably displacing and expelling those aspects of body and mind that frighten and shame us into the bodies and lives and minds of weaker and more vulnerable people. This is Moss’ original and potent way of thinking through misogyny, homophobia, and the often murderous attitudes toward difference and otherness, including "trans" experience. Moss asks us to see that these refusals and disavowals of our complex humanity have enormous and dangerous consequences individually, collectively, and politically - Adrienne Harris, PhD, New York UniversityFascinating, thought-provoking exploration of the notion of masculinity, written in an intelligent, accessible style - Michael Feldman, Supervising and Training Analyst, British Psychoanalytical Society"The title of this important book echoes both Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Henry Louis Gates Jr's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Like Stevens and Gates, Donald Moss offers multiple perspectives: being a man is not simply a choice to be more or less like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Liberace. Each man has internalised an ideal based on disavowals and refusals of other male bodies and behaviours. The author combines his childhood reminiscences of illness and classroom embarrassment, deep personal reflection, his father's war stories, theoretical overviews and case studies from his psychoanalytic practice. This way of writing is common to a range of books on masculinity, but the stylistic mix reflects the volatility he seeks to address." – David Kennedy, Times Higher Education"This unusual, vital, and in places demanding book is about the contemporary shifting scene of psychoanalytic assessment of "masculinity." Moss is an innovative and politically aware psychoanalyst who has contributed many interesting papers on hetero- and homosexuality, homophobia, gender, violence, and racism to psychoanalytic journals over the years. The present work is both postmodern and highly personal, and is written in a lyrical, poetic style. Parts of the text read like mini-essays in The New Yorker. Moss confronts and undermines the cultural biases involved in thinking about what makes a "man," in his in-depth self-reflections and in the reflections of his patients. Moss has offered many more than "13 ways" of looking, of profoundly and richly perceiving his own topic, men. The book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of gender, and cultural critics. Summing Up: Highly recommended." - Rosemary H. Balsam, CHOICE"With his latest publication,…Donald Moss, a refreshing psychoanalytic scholar and ambassador, continues the theoretical and clinical conversation on masculinities in a daring, personal, rigorous manner. At times autobiographical, poetic, historical, scholastic, moving and crystalline, these are less traditional chapters. They are more embodied essays, stories told with an invitation to consider Moss' associations, his very human poignant curves and sideswipes…They hang together brilliantly as a book, yet stand alone as contemporary meditations." - Fort/Da, The Journal of the Northern California Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology"This scholarly yet incisive and accessible book addresses the unstable notion of masculinity and the ways in which both hetero- and homosexual man seek to shape themselves in relation to the precarious nature of being a man. ... The writing is enriched by the author's willingness to share several of his own formative experiences in facing the daunting task of searching for the ways to grow up as a man with a mind of his own." - Michael J. Diamond, Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic StudiesTable of ContentsBass, Foreword. Prologue. Masculinity as Masquerade. Immaculate Attachment vs. Passive Yearning: On Being and Becoming a Man. First Aside: Ted. On Neither Being Nor Becoming a Man. Two Ways of Looking Back. Psychoanalysis and Male Homosexuality/ The Ideal of Neutrality. Internalized Homophobia: Wanting in the First-Person Singular, Hating in the First-Person Plural. On Situating Homophobia. Freud’s "Female Homosexual": One Way of Looking at a Woman. Second Aside: Little Richard. Looking at a Transsexual. War Stories. Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisThe streets of cities around the world have been filled with a new theatrical model of protest, with creativity, fun, pleasure, and play as the cornerstones of this new approach. This book examines the historical use and development of 'play' as well as the recent ways in which it has infused protest and community building. Trade Review"No longer the province of party hacks and budding politicians, social movements are today joyful and erotic eruptions. While Americans may be aware of explosive convulsions abroad, domestic histories of self-directed opposition are often hidden suppressed. Benjamin Shepard gives flesh to the zeitgeist of joyful opposition in the US, recounting playful episodes of autonomously organized resistance to the forces of seriousness and domination."- George Katsiaficas, activist and author of The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life "Play, Creativity, and Social Movements is entertaining and inspiring. The book is a glimpse into the funny antics of the past, and the continuing possibilities of playful social protest. Shepard has spent his life as a tireless activist and prolific scholar; his fifth book offers a history of the role of play in social movements rich with all of the passion, dedication and sense of humor of those who play for social justice. Shepard's book is a must read for those who know that 'there is joy in changing the world' (33)."- Carmen L. McClish , University of the West Indies, St. Augustine"A historically and theoretically sophisticated study of play and humor in the service of political goals... Believing that politics is too funny to be left to the politicians and comedy too serious to be left to the professional funny-men, Benjamin Shepard takes us on a hilarious tour of the streets and parks of America to show us what a little imagination and a outsized sense of fun, mixed in with just enough courage, can do in the struggle for a more human world. Highly recommended!"- Bertell Ollman, Dept. of Politics, NYU, and author of Dance of the Dialectic"At a time of social and ecological crisis, the idea of playful protest might seem somewhat irrelevant, yet Shepard's brilliant overview of the ludic spirit of social movements shows us clearly that play is exactly what is needed at times like this. From Dada to Reclaim the Streets, via Act Up and community gardening, every page of this book brings another story of acts of play that enable social movement actors to imagine other worlds through liberating their minds and bodies. Best of all, Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution shows us that when academics leave the safety of their desks for the playground of the streets, the result is not only intelligent, powerful new forms of action, but critique that is alive and kicking."-John Jordan, art activist and co-author of Paths Through Utopias and We Are Everywhere: The Irresistible Rise of Global Anticapitalism"This is the book I'd have found as a 23 year old and flipped out to - like George McKay's Party and Protest in 90's Britain, discovering the MC5 or my first RTS protest. His project, exploring the ludic within movements for social change, comes to our contemporary moment. It is a book of theory, criticism, tactics, documentation and most significantly an insider's perspective on some of the most interesting plays for social change engaged within the United States over the last 40 years. I love this book. Herein contains the voices of those who have most inspired and challenged me to scheme then act wildly for a more just world."- Robby Herbst, Llano Del Rio Collective, Co-founder of Journal of Aesthetics & Protest"Benjamin Shepard theorizes on play and protest - and he lives it. His real experience with the playful struggle in the streets, whether wearing a red nose or a feather boa, comes through in every chapter of this compelling and provocative book."- L. M. Bogad, UC Davis, Electoral Guerilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements"A sojourn into the pages of Play, Creativity, and Social Movements illuminates the continuity of Occupy's struggle with the global cycle of protest against neoliberalism that begun in the 1990s. The book is a must read for anyone trying to understand the more enigmatic aspects of the Occupy movement, including its leaderless structure, squatter sensibility, and eschewal of mainstream political processes; and it is absolutely crucial for those wanting to track the history of anticorporate activism in the U.S. Focused primarily on movement activity in New York, the book provides rich historical accounts of the key political, tactical, and organizational problems and strategies that informed the city's most vibrant and vehement movements for affordable housing, public space, sexual freedom, and fair labor practices over the last couple of decades, against goliath efforts to develop, privatize, and essentially dehumanize urban life." - Heather Gautney, Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society,Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Play as Prank: From the Yippies to the Young Lords 2. Send in the Clowns: Play, Pleasure and Movements for Sexual Freedom 3. Play as Community Building: From Gardens to Global Peace and Justice 4. Playing in Topsy-Turvery Times: From Carnival to Carnage 5. The Limits of Play: Radical Clowning vs. Tomato Picking. Conclusion: Methodological Reflections on the Study of Play in Social Movements

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Book SynopsisEvery woman is, or can be, a leader. Women lead families, communities, churches, businesses, artistic communities, military platoons and even nations. Often they''re not formally recognized for doing so. HOW GREAT WOMEN LEAD celebrates the women who do just that...from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, to Geena Davis, to Ann Curry.In the spirit of How Strong Women Pray, this mother-daughter team examines and challenges us all to rethink stereotypes of leadership and women. As St. John and Deane interact with extraordinary women across the country, readers interact with these strong individuals through their own eyes.Trade ReviewBonnie is one of the five most inspiring women in America. - Brian Williams, NBC Nightly NewsBonnie St. John has, against all odds, found great joy in her life. And rather than hoarding it...she generously shares the treasure. - Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass CastleHow Strong Women Pray is a powerful book that teaches us valuable lessons about prayer, about ourselves and about God's open heart toward each one of us. - Debbie Macomber, author of Knit Together: Discover God's Pattern for Your LifeWith all the things we have to worry about in the world today - terrorists, the crises on Wall Street, and global warming - Live Your Joy leaves you feeling stronger, more resilient, and more energized so you can feel in charge of your life. - Joan Lunden, author and TV personalityBonnie's life is proof that we can all be happy no matter what. Read Live Your Joy to walk a while alongside her and learn how to do it. - Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason

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Book SynopsisRecently, noticeable problematic issues based on identity-related challenges among college men have begun to receive national attention.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures xi Preface xv About the Editors xxi Advisory Borad xxiii 1 Beyond the Model Gender Majority Myth: Responding Equitably to the Developmental Needs and Challenges of College Men 1Shaun R. Harper and Frank Harris III Part One Identity Development and Gender Socialization 17 Introduction 17 2 Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity 23Michael S. Kimmel 3 Gender-Role Conflict Scale: College Men’s Fear of Femininity 32James M. O’Neil, Barbara J. Helms, Robert K. Gable, Laurence David, and Lawrence S. Wrightsman 4 Voices of Gender Role Conflict: The Social Construction of College Men’s Identity 49Tracy L. Davis 5 Masculinities Go to Community College: Understanding Male Identity Socialization and Gender Role Conflict 66Frank Harris III and Shaun R. Harper 6 Masculinity Scripts, Presenting Concerns, and Help Seeking: Implications for Practice and Training 77James R. Mahalik, Glenn E. Good, and Matt Englar-Carlson Implications for Educational Practice 97 Part Two Sexualities and Sexual Orientations 101 Introduction 101 7 Which Way Out?: A Typology of Non-Heterosexual Male Collegiate Identities 105Patrick Dilley 8 African American Gay Men: Another Challenge for the Academy 136Jamie Washington and Vernon A. Wall 9 Making Men in Gay Fraternities: Resisting and Reproducing Multiple Dimensions of Hegemonic Masculinity 148King-To Yeung, Mindy Stombler, and Reneé Wharton 10 Construction of Male Sexuality and Gender Roles in Puerto Rican Heterosexual College Students 172David Pérez-Jiménez, Ineke Cunningham, Irma Serrano-Garcίa, and Blanca Ortiz-Torres 11 Pornography, Sexual Socialization, and Satisfaction Among Young Men 191Aleksandar Štulhofer, Vesna Buško, and Ivan Landripet Implications for Educational Practice 213 Part Three College Men Behaving Badly 217 Introduction 217 12 A Theoretical Model to Explain the Overrepresentation of College Men Among Campus Judicial Offenders: Implications for Campus Administrators 221Shaun R. Harper, Frank Harris III, and Kenechukwu (K. C.) Mmeje 13 Why College Men Drink: Alcohol, Adventure, and the Paradox of Masculinity 239Rocco L. Capraro 14 Whales Tales, Dog Piles, and Beer Goggles: An Ethnographic Case Study of Fraternity Life 258Robert A. Rhoads 15 Toward a Transformed Approach to Prevention: Breaking the Link between Masculinity and Violence 276Luoluo Hong Implications for Educational Practice 299 Part Four College Men’s Health and Wellness 303 Introduction 303 16 Constructions of Masculinity and their Influence on Men’s Well-Being: A Theory of Gender and Health 307Will H. Courtenay 17 Mags and Abs: Media Consumption and Bodily Concerns in Men 337Ida Jodette Hatoum and Deborah Belle 18 Effects of Alcohol, Expectancies, and Partner Type on Condom Use in College Males: Event-Level Analyses 355Joseph LaBrie, Mitch Earleywine, Jason Schiffman, Eric Pedersen, and Charles Marriot 19 Exploring the Health Behavior Disparities of Gay Men in the United States: Comparing Gay Male University Students to Their Heterosexual Peers 370Scott D. Rhodes, Thomas McCoy, Kenneth C. Hergenrather, Morrow R. Omli, and Robert H. DuRant Implications for Educational Practice 383 Part Five College Men of Color 387 Introduction 387 20 Factors Influencing the Ethnic Identity Development of Latino Fraternity Members at a Hispanic Serving Institution 391Juan R. Guardia and Nancy J. Evans 21 Exploring the Lives of Asian American Men: Racial Identity, Male Role Norms, Gender Role Conflict, and Prejudicial Attitudes 415William M. Liu 22 Peer Support for African American Male College Achievement: Beyond Internalized Racism and the Burden of “Acting White” 434Shaun R. Harper 23 Expressions of Spirituality Among African American College Males 457Michael K. Herndon Implications for Educational Practice 467 Part Six College Men and Sports 473 Introduction 473 24 Stigma Management Through Participation in Sport and Physical Activity: Experiences of Male College Students with Physical Disabilities 479Diane E. Taub, Elaine M. Blinde, and Kimberly R. Greer 25 Race, Interest Convergence, and Transfer Outcomes for Black Male Student-Athletes at Community Colleges 494Shaun R. Harper 26 Used Goods: Former African American College Student-Athletes’ Perceptions of Exploitation by Division I Universities 504Krystal K. Beamon 27 Social Justice and Men’s Interests: The Case of Title IX 523Michael A. Messner and Nancy M. Solomon 28 Reconstructing Masculinity in the Locker Room: The Mentors in Violence Prevention Project 541Jackson Katz Implications for Educational Practice 553 Name Index 557 Subject Index 569 Credits 583

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking book applies the concept of social determinants of health to the health of African- American men.While there have been significant efforts in recent years to eliminate health disparities, serious disparities continue to exist especially with regard to AfricanAmerican men who continue to suffer disproportionately from poor health when compared to other racial, ethnic, and gender groups in the United States. This bookcovers the most important issues relating to social determinants of health and also offers viable strategies for reducing health disparities.Table of ContentsFigures and Tables v Foreword vii Robert M Franklin Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii The Editors xv The Contributors xvii 1 Introduction to Social Determinants of Health among African-American Men 1 Clare Xanthos, Henrie M Treadwell, and Kisha B Holden Part One Social Determinants of Health Status 19 2 Implications of Racism for African-American Men’s Cancer Risk, Morbidity, and Mortality 21 Derek M Griffith and Jonetta L Johnson 3 Social Determinants of Depression and the Black Male Experience 39 Daphne C Watkins and Harold W Neighbors 4 Psychosocial Health of Black Sexually Marginalized Men 63 Louis F Graham 5 Parental Incarceration as a Social Determinant of Male African-American Adolescents’ Mental Health 83 Susan D Phillips and Qiana R Cryer-Coupet 6 The Impact of Reentry from Incarceration on the Health of African-American Men 97 Jean J Bonhomme and Elisabeth Kingsbury 7 Life-Course Socioeconomic Position and Hypertension in African-American Men: The Pitt County Study 115 Sherman A James, John Van Hoewyk, Robert F Belli, David S Strogatz, David R Williams, and Trevillore E Raghunathan Part Two Social Determinants of Health Behavior 133 8 Social Determinants of Medical Mistrust among African-American Men 135 Wizdom Powell Hammond and Arjumand A Siddiqi 9 Beyond Gay, Bisexual, or DL: Structural Determinants of HIV Sexual Risk among Black Men in the United States 161 David J Malebranche and Lisa Bowleg 10 Social Determinants of Substance Abuse among Older African-American Men 183 Robert Pope Part Three Social Determinants of Health Care 205 11 Prejudiced Providers: Unequal Treatment as a Determinant of African-American Men’s Health 207 Clare Xanthos 12 The Impact of the Correctional Health Care System on HIV/AIDS and the Health of African-American Men 225 Rhonda Conerly Holliday Part Four Addressing Social Determinants of Health Inequities 245 13 Building Communities of Opportunity: Pathways to Health for African-American Men 247 Angela Glover Blackwell 14 One City’s Attempt at Treating the Effects of Social Inequities in African-American Men: Lessons Learned 265 Elizabeth M Whitley and Jodi Drisko 15 The Impact of Invisibility: The Way Forward 283 Henrie M Treadwell 16 Criminal Justice and Other Public Policies as Determinants of Health and Well-Being for African-American Men 301 Leda M Perez 17 Social Determinants of Health and Black Men: The Culture of Empowerment and the Policy Process 319 Adewale Troutman and Nandi Marshall Afterword 335 David Satcher Index 339

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Book SynopsisThe classic ethnography on how implicit bias impacts black male students' identitiesTrade Review“When Ann Ferguson published Bad Boys in 2000, it marked a watershed moment in educational research. The book’s insights on the role of schools in constructing, negotiating, and pathologizing Black masculinity were immediately recognized as a towering intellectual achievement. Twenty years later, as the academy and broader public finally begins to seriously engage the ‘school to prison pipeline’ discourse that Ferguson helped to advance and complicate, we still have much to learn from this theoretically rigorous and methodologically rich text. With a compelling new afterword and a brilliant new bibliographic essay, this new edition of Bad Boys is as urgent, relevant, and generative as the original was two decades ago. Anyone interested in the educational lives of Black boys owes an intellectual debt to Ann Ferguson. This book is a reminder of how large that debt is.” —Marc Lamont Hill, Temple University“Teachers and future teachers should read Ferguson's book, and so should all of those who are still unconvinced that our schools treat children differently when they are black.” —Anthropology & Education Quarterly“[Ferguson] leaves no doubt about the structural sources of schooling tensions and contradictions as she analyzes the complexity of Black masculinity in schools. These are racialized and gendered lessons for educational policy makers, classroom teachers, school disciplinary enforcers, and community members who want to make sense of the early school experiences of Black males.” —Gender & Society“Ferguson succeeds in providing an intersectional analysis of how race, gender, and class dynamics combine in the institutional practices and treatment of the African-American boys she follows. . . . Bad Boys is an engaging and important book that should be required reading for scholars and students studying education, race relations, criminal justice, social reproduction, or child psychology.” —American Journal of Sociology“Bad Boys is an incisive critique of the ways in which public schools help to create and shape perceptions of black masculinity. Beyond its rich ethnographic details, Ann Ferguson has crafted a compelling and insightful piece of scholarship. . . . Her work has widespread appeal and is readily applicable and informative for fields throughout the social sciences, especially criminal justice and sociology.” —Criminal Justice Review

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Book SynopsisFocuses on young male migrants of rural origin who move to build better lives in Bougouni, a provincial town of southwest Mali. Based on 18 months of fieldwork, author Andre Chappatte explores their sense of prosperity and piety in what they call ‘tunga’ (adventure), a customary search of money and more dating back from the colonial period.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Style sheet Glossary Tunga: ‘Tomorrow is in God’s Hands’ [Introduction] Part 1: Navigating Street Life and Public Islam An Informed Bike Tour of Bougouni Public Islam on the street Islam under street lighting: an ambiguous ‘civilization’ Part 2: Motions and Ethics on the Earthly Path Struggles for Better Lives in the Hands of God The Resilience of Mande Figures of ‘Humanity’ Social Motions: Chinese Products and Material Modernity. The Mercy of the savanna [Conclusion] Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisBespoke tailoring has been synonymous with Savile Row for more than 150 years. Its venerable institutions are responsible for producing the world's most exquisite suits for elite clients who include celebrated entertainers, athletes, businessmen, politicians and royals. Now, as the Row moves firmly into the 21st century, its tailors are embracing unusual fabrics, new colours and modern tastes to update its long-held traditions and reach an ever-broader client base. Master cutter Richard Anderson has worked on Savile Row for over thirty-five years and co-founded his company, Richard Anderson Ltd, in 2001. Here he introduces the traditional craft of cutting a bespoke suit and garments, showcasing twenty-five classic menswear designs that have been creatively adapted in new and unusual ways for the modern gentleman. Anderson tells the story of each piece, from a rakish red seersucker coat to a show-stopping black sequined dinner jacket, and explores the fascinating history of the diverse fabrics and cuts. Original sketches, patterns and photographs reveal the time, dedication and precision that go into creating a truly custom-made piece. This lively bible of sartorial know-how will inspire anyone looking to commission a bespoke garment of his own.Trade Review'There are few as qualified to write about the Row as Anderson' - GQ'A must-read for anyone with an interest in the very best of luxury British style' - The Jackal'Highly recommended for all sartorial men and women' - Grey Fox'Explores the history of the street's most famous creations, and shows you how they're still superbly suited for a modern man's wardrobe' - GQ'Explores some of the most iconic fashion designs for men' - Mail on Sunday'A nerd’s guide to everything from the notch lapel to the rain pinstripe' - The Times'A lively bible of sartorial know-how full of insight, information and inspiration' - The Art of Luxury'Beautifully written and designed' - Business of Fashion, Books of the Year 2018Table of ContentsIntroduction • Light Fare • Strong Suits • Atypical Tweeds • Top Coats • Regalia Redux

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Book SynopsisThe Big Idea shortlisted for series design in the British Design and Production AwardsIn the wake of the #MeToo movement and the upsurge in feminist and men's rights activism, traditional masculinity has become a topic of impassioned debate. But what exactly do we mean by masculinity' and in what ways can it be said to be harmful? This incisive volume evaluates modern masculinity's capacity for good against its potential for destruction. It reviews evolving definitions of masculinity since the age of chivalry and examines our current expectations about men's behaviours, roles and responsibilities. It reveals societal pressure on men to act aggressively, suppress emotion and be in control, and the impact of being a real man' on self and others.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Evolving Understandings of Masculinity - Masculine Power to Harm - Men and Interpersonal Relationships - The Changing Face of Masculinity Today - Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn 1666, King Charles II introduced a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. This text examines the inspiration behind this royal revolution in masculine attire, showing how the ideology of modern English masculinity was a self-consciously political and public creation.Trade Review"[This] is an important contribution to our understanding of the transformations in England's economic, political, and social order between 1550 and 1850. Kuchta handles his assumptions, sources, and arguments with sure-handed grace."-Susan Kingsley Kent, author of Gender and Power in Britain, 1640 to 1990Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. Conspicuous Constructions 2. The Old Sartorial Regime, 1550--1688 3. The Seventeenth-Century Fashion Crisis 4. The Three-Piece Suit 5. Masculinity in the "Age of Chivalry," 1688--1832 6. The Making of the Self-Made Man, 1750--1850 7. Inconspicuous Consumption Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisExamines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain. Looking at the transformations of the era - changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, and the growth of a national media - this book asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the society.Trade Review"This is a very important book. It may even be a historic book... One reads this book with grateful amazement... Breathtaking." Huffington Post "Fascinating and informative... Upchurch has set a standard for depth and originality of research and creative social analysis." Gay City News "A meticulous study... Illuminating." Victorian Studies "A powerful and persuasive account of male-male sexual relations in the age of reform." -- Denis O'Donovan Men & Masculinities "A very fine book. Upchurch's sophisticated work instructively points scholars in new chronological and methodological directions." -- pAuL r. desLAndes University of Vermont Journal Of The History Of SexualityTable of ContentsList of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. UNDERSTANDINGS 1. Families and Sex between Men 2. Class, Masculinity, and Spaces PART TWO. EARLY NINETEENTH-CENTURY CHANGES 3. Law and Reform in the 1820s 4. Public Men: The Metropolitan Police 5. Unnatural-Assault Reporting in the London Press PART THREE. IMPLICATIONS 6. Patterns within the Changes 7. Conclusion: Character and Medicine Notes Select Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAddresses masculine gender expectations in a male-dominated political world, the connection between gendered identity and ethical being. This book follows the lives of two very different Japanese men entering political life in two very different communities.Trade Review"[LeBlanc is] such a good writer that her prose is accessible, even entrancing, to mere mortals... Her prose simply sings." Japan Times "An engrossing, fast-paced ethnographic study... Highly recommended." Choice "LeBlanc presents a multitude of eye-opening stories about masculinity... Certainly a welcome addition that will stimulate further investigation and dialogues." Social Science Japan Journal "LeBlanc is one of the most talented wordsmiths writing in English about politics, and her new book showcases her enviable skills." Journal Of Japanese Stds "LeBlanc's book is hugely informative and instructive and exceedingly innovative." -- Gabriele Voct Journal Of Asian StdsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Names Preface Introduction: The Power Remainder 1. Breadwinners 2. The Inheritor 3. The Paradox of Masculine Honor 4. Cheating as a Democratic Practice 5. The Art of the Gut Conclusion: Salad and Cigarettes for Breakfast, or How to Find Democracy by Losing One's Sense of Perspective Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBased on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, this title sheds light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. It offers an approach that analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one.Trade Review“This insightful peek into the realities of high school should be read by researchers, administrators, teachers, and parents. . . . Pascoe’s analysis is sophisticated, mapping the intricacies involved in the relationships between sexuality, gender, race, and class. Yet, her work is clean-cut and difficult to argue against.” * Men & Masculinities *“An incisive assessment.” * Seattle Gay News *“Introspective, fascinating, consistently interesting.” * Bay Area Reporter *“Current, typically salient, personally informative, [and] lively in style. . . . The exemplary fieldwork vignettes and case studies are abundant, rich, vivid, and experientially resonant. At the same time, [Pascoe] has thoroughly theorized her narrative, providing a fine conceptual vocabulary, a probing critical framework, and a set of intelligent practical recommendations.” * General Anthropology Bulletin *“Academic, but accessible.” * Bottom Line *"Pascoe is able to witness the quotidian rituals of heterosexual masculinity, its precariousness, its fragility and ultimately, its dangerous lashing out at all that can undermine it." * Social Forces *"Pascoe gives a fly-on-the-wall experience of sexuality in high school." * Journal of Gender Studies *"Pascoe's work challenges research on gender, and specifically masculinity, to address sexuality, race, and other significant factors as aspects of the social construction of masculinities." * Gender & Society *"Not only is the information interesting and relevant to our society, but Pascoe’s book is a great representation of ethnographic protocol." * Lambda Alpha Journal *"Usefully calls for a more sophisticated approach to issues surrounding teenage sexuality, masculinity and power than is generally enabled by uncritical applications of a generic notion of homophobia." * Culture, Health, & Sexuality *"The book nicely illustrates how masculinity comprises thoughts and ideas that are collectively defined and asserted, and how salient such issues are for high school students." * 126 Spaces for Difference: An Interdisciplinary Journal *Table of ContentsPreface to the 2012 Edition Acknowledgments 1. Making Masculinity: Adolescence, Identity, and High School Revenge of the Nerds What Do We Mean by Masculinity? Bringing in Sexuality Rethinking Masculinity, Sexuality, and Bodies Methodology Organization of the Book 2. Becoming Mr. Cougar: Institutionalizing Heterosexuality and Masculinity at River High River High's Gender and Sexuality Curriculum Pedagogy: The Unofficial Gender and Sexuality Curriculum School Rituals: Performing and Policing Gender and Sexuality Gender and Sexuality Regimes 3. Dude, You're a Fag: Adolescent Male Homophobia What Is a Fag? Gendered Meanings Becoming a Fag: Fag Fluidity Embodying the Fag: Ricky's Story Racializing the Fag Where the Fag Disappears: Drama Performances Reframing Homophobia 4. Compulsive Heterosexuality: Masculinity and Dominance A Stud with the Ladies Getting Girls Touching Sex Talk Girls Respond I'm Different from Other Guys Females Are the Puppets 5. Look at My Masculinity! Girls Who Act Like Boys Tomboy Pasts Rebeca and the Basketball Girls The Homecoming Queen: Jessie Chau The Gay/Straight Alliance Girls Embodying Masculinity 6. Conclusion: Thinking about Schooling, Gender, and Sexuality Masculinity at River High Theoretical Implications Practical Steps Appendix: What If a Guy Hits on You? Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Age in Fieldwork with Adolescents Notes References Index

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive analysis of Chinese masculinity. While there is a vast Eurocentric scholarship on gender and sexuality, there has been little work addressing these issues within the Chinese context.Trade Review'Theorising Chinese Masculinity is a welcome addition to studies on gender - both globally and in terms of China specifically. The book is a boon for those teaching Chinese gender studies in that it offers accessible and stimulating insights into the iconography and representations of Chinese masculinity.' Asian Studies Review'This book is unique in its originality as it provides a much-needed account of masculinity in Chinese society and beyond … a breath of fresh air … For anyone concerned with understanding the construction of cultural and sexual identities, this book offers needed insights into a long neglected arena of masculinity. Louie's stimulating and readable account of the construction of Chinese masculinity could not have arrived at a better time.' Sociology'In [the book], Kam Louie offers us a very clear and concise analysis of the cultural models of Chinese masculinity from ancient imperial times to the present age of transnational contact … Louie's book could be considered a pioneering effort to provide a rather comprehensive study of this subject. Besides describing in detail the historical development of the male image from premodern to contemporary times, Louie also focuses on the ways in which Chinese men have been represented under the Western gaze and how these representations have negotiated with the dominant Western culture.' Philosophy East and WestTable of Contents1. Introducing wen-wu: towards a definition of Chinese masculinity; 2. Portrait of the God of War Guan Yu: sex, politics and wu masculinity; 3. Confucius as sage, teacher, businessman: transformations of the wen Icon; 4. Scholars and intellectuals: representations of wen masculinity past and present; 5. The working-class hero: images of wu in traditional and Post-Mao fiction; 6. Women's voices: the ideal 'woman's man' in the twentieth century; 7. Lao She's The Two Mas and foreign wives: constructing wen masculinity for the modern world; 8. Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun Fat: internationalising wu masculinity; 9. Wen-wu reconstructed: Chinese masculinity hybridised and globalised; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisDid you know that the male brain is a lean, mean problem-solving machine that uses analytical brain structures, not emotional ones, to find solutions. This guide follows the male brain from infancy to adulthood. It unlocks many secrets and offers insights into a range of subjects, including emotional intimacy, anger, agression, and winning.Trade ReviewDr Louann Brizendine's lucid, lively, and always fascinating discussion of how the male brain works (and why) has enlightened me in more ways than I can count. * Jane Fonda, actress and writer *Dr Louann Brizendine brings the latest in state-of-the-art science in helping us to understand the most ancient and primal of male passions and desires ... Highly recommended. * Dr Dean Ornish, author of The Spectrum and Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCLA. *The book uses the latest research to follow the male brain from infanthood to old age, with fascinating results. * Daily Telegraph *A fascinating read... you will pick up some valuable tips to help you understand, appreciate and connect with the men in your life. * Helen Fisher, author of Why Him? Why Her? *

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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

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Book SynopsisIn materials as diverse as Hannah Foster's post-Revolutionary War novel The Coquette and the Coen brothers' 1996 movie Fargo, this book taps into popular culture and high art alike to outline the logic of American manhood's violent streak--and its dire consequences for a culture with truly democratic and egalitarian ambitions.Trade ReviewHerbert demonstrates the centrality of violence to the developing culture of democratic manhood. The book’s power comes in the lean simplicity and directness of its argument, and its framing personal reflections that document the author’s own willingness to apply this analysis to himself and invite readers to see the possibilities of such self-analysis. Sexual Violence also demonstrates Walt Herbert’s absolute passion for social change, for the idea that people can, by struggling courageously with their own flaws and demons, improve their own lives and American democratic practice. -- Dana Nelson, author of National ManhoodThis is a passionate and provocative book, more polemical sketch than in-depth scholarly study, but powerfully urgent in those terms. It literary analyses are first rate, uncommonly pithy and wide-ranging. An important and unusually intimate book. -- David Leverenz, author of Manhood and the American RenaissanceThis book is hopeful and sympathetic. Herbert’s argument is measured, nuanced, and patient. His discussion of pornographic manhood is insightful and his outstanding observations about martial rape advance the issue. -- Andrea Dworkin, author and editor of many works including In Harm’s Way, co-edited with Catharine A. MacKinnonThread by thread, Walter Herbert reveals the knot conjoining masculinity, sexuality, and violence. Compelling, carefully reasoned, and large in scope, the book is ambitious—and it delivers. Using literature, popular culture, and, most movingly, his own story, Herbert authoritatively places sexualized violence in a particular American context. This is an important work that should be read, not only by historians, psychologists, and sociologists, but by anyone desiring a better understanding of our current world, or anyone dreaming of a better one. -- Terrence Real, author of How Can I Get Through to You: Reconnecting Men and Women and I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression[Herbert] exposes the myths that allow men to justify sexual domination, whether it takes the form of physical abuse or exclusion from decision-making. -- Leon Howell * Christian Century *Herbert mines American literature and film, as well as his own experience, to weave a disturbing, but finally hopeful volume about the shaping of American codes of masculinity. -- Rosemary Ruether * National Catholic Reporter *Herbert traces the shifting ideologies that have created and justified the sexually abusive behavior of men in 19th- and 20th-century America, mainly through an examination of literary texts… His conclusions about the past and present culture of misogyny in America are as convincing as they are sobering, but Herbert sounds a hopeful note throughout, believing that Americans can draw on their democratic traditions to achieve more egalitarian sexual relations. His brave, highly personal prologue and epilogue serve to humanize the author… Highly recommended. -- Andrew Brodie Smith * Library Journal *Table of ContentsPrologue 1. Frontiers of Masculinity 2. Rape as an Activity of the Imagination 3. Becoming a Natural Man 4. Pornographic Manhood 5. Investigations behind the Veil 6. Rape as Redemption 7. Democratic Masculinities Epilogue Works Cited Acknowledgments Index

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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

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Book SynopsisDeep Secrets reveals the false story we tell about boys, friendships, and human nature. Niobe Way argues that boys experience a “crisis of connection” as they approach manhood. Human needs and capacities are given a sex (female) and a sexuality (gay), and thus are discouraged for those who are neither.Trade Review[Deep Secrets] offers a surprising glimpse into the hearts of American boys, revealing a group of lonely young men who crave acceptance and belonging and deeply miss the friendships of their childhood...Compulsively readable...Way recounts the hundreds of interviews her team conducted in American high schools. The voices present are heartbreakingly authentic in revealing a pattern, a gradual drift away from "emotionally intimate same-sex friendships" with other boys and toward a destructive stereotype of manliness that perpetuate the false notion that "boys are only interested in one thing." * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *The stories that Way and her research team have persuaded boys to tell are a welcome corrective to the stereotyping of males as essentially unfeeling and/or incapable of communicating their feelings, which has been such a striking (and offensive) feature of recent discourse on gender differences. Way deserves our gratitude for bringing to the surface what seems lately to have become the deepest secret of all: that the needs, desires and feelings of boys and girls, or men and women, are at bottom far more similar than different. -- Deborah Cameron * Times Higher Education *Way's book should provide encouragement to parents wondering whether they are setting their children, especially their sons, up for abuse by encouraging closeness and defiance of gender stereotypes, particularly those concerning close same-sex friends. Way asserts that the need and ability for connection is as keen in boys as it is in girls, and she backs up her assertion with plenty of data and close reading of the literature. Connection is not something one needs to teach, as the author so eloquently demonstrates; it is something one needs to foster. The text is beautifully written, and the boys' stories are interspersed with explanations and discussion substantiated by the literature. A truly approachable piece of work for a wide audience. -- J. F. Heberle * Choice *Deep Secrets tells a story of American teenagers in baggy jeans and T-shirts, with a basketball under the arm, expressing extraordinary sensitivity and tenderness about their same-sex friends, and expecting the same in return. The disappearance of this gentle world, it seems, scars them for life, and appears to do extensive damage to the culture at large... In short, this is an extremely important book, a revelation in a way, and one of the most absorbing academic publications I've ever had the privilege of reading. -- Bradley Winterton * Taipei Times *In Way's groundbreaking Deep Secrets, boys who have long been obscured by cultural myths come alive and let us all in on their most promising, most human dimensions. This is a book that should start educators and parents rethinking how we support our sons' lives. -- Michael C. Reichert, coauthor of Reaching Boys, Teaching BoysThe book that changes the discussion about boys. Let the secret out! -- Michael Kaufman, author of Cracking the Armour: Power, Pain, and the Lives of MenDeep Secrets is a much needed and insightful book. Niobe Way rescues us from the simplistic view that 'boys will be boys' to reveal the depth of boys' emotional lives. From her careful and extensive research over two decades comes a compelling and memorable portrait of real boys' lives. -- Gary Barker, author of Dying to Be Men: Youth, Masculinity, and Social ExclusionWay's moving analysis of the intimate lives of boys challenges the reader to reconsider many of the widely held assumptions about what it means to grow up male in America today. By sharing their stories of loss, their fears of rejection, their hopes and dreams of connection, Way introduces us to the world of adolescent males so that we can see them as they are and not as we may have imagined. -- Pedro A. Noguera, author of The Trouble with Black Boys

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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 *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewHow To Be Gay is…written by a gifted thinker and writer who has come to see that there is not just a political and sexual gay culture (its foundational event the rioting outside the Stonewall Inn in 1969), based on gay identity rather than sensibility, but also a nonsexual gay culture, based on modes of feeling and expressive artifacts. -- Adam Mars-Jones * London Review of Books *[Halperin] provocatively argues that when it comes to defining what it means to be a homosexual man, sex is overrated… Culture matters more… [How To Be Gay] is never a bore… [It] explores a fundamental kind of gay sensibility… Halperin teases an enormous amount out of [a] scene [in Mildred Pierce], including the sense of ‘glamour and abjection’ gay audiences find in [Joan] Crawford, and how the film packages the ‘transgressive spectacle of female strength, autonomy, feistiness and power.’ …Halperin works up to an argument (impossible to summarize here) about how the film evokes a ‘dissident perspective’ on the very idea of romantic love. He is articulate about many other things in this book, including how gay men often find more resonance in straight cultural artifacts than in gay ones. His funny shorthand for this is: ‘Why would we want Edmund White, when we still have The Golden Girls?’ …He is excellent, too, on how classical tragedy is nearly always about men, or fathers and sons… Dozens of similar arguments are rehearsed in How To Be Gay. Halperin even neatly mows down hipster irony in the face of the kind of gay male irony that defines camp. It’s a kaleidoscopic book that at its base breaks with what the author calls ‘the Brokeback Mountain crowd.’ He urges gay men to take their so-called femininity out of ‘homosexuality’s newly built closet,’ to see it plainly and to give it affirmative interpretations. -- Dwight Garner * New York Times *How To Be Gay celebrat[es] the sharp-elbowed camp culture that many now consider obsolete… How can someone be gay without having seen Mildred Pierce or The Wizard of Oz? To answer that, you first have to know what such movies have to do with being gay. Halperin observes, as others have before him, that gay boys often display stereotypical tastes long before sex enters the picture. As he points out, sexuality is the area where gay men differ least from straight men… Gay taste is something more singular, probably linked to incipient feelings of dissimilarity from one’s peers… Halperin is right to defend the old rituals and the lingo and body language that go with them… So long live camp, and all the other cultural pursuits that gay people have traditionally embraced. Perhaps the historic devotion to theatre, opera, high fashion, and other venerable disciplines will wither away, but it seems likely that many gay kids will still feel the trauma of difference and go on seeking refuge in artier spheres. Halperin speaks of a ‘tension between egalitarian ethics and hierarchical aesthetics’ in gay taste; he sees it as a snobbery not of class but of knowledge, open to all who can hold their own. It stands in opposition to a society that joins egalitarian aesthetics—the notion that the perfect cultural product appeals to all—to an economic system whose inequalities become more glaring by the day. Gay culture’s long memory, its arch sympathy for fading worlds, is a check against the razing of the past. -- Alex Ross * New Yorker *[A] provocatively titled critical cri de coeur… To summarize Halperin’s ambitious book is tricky, but think of it as an exploration of the tension between the official Pride Parade, celebrating post-Stonewall gay identity, and the Drag March, celebrating pre-liberation gay culture… Halperin is at his best when critiquing the current assimilationist model of gay-rights activism, with its denial of any cultural interests or aesthetic points-of-view that hint of femininity or campiness or of the ‘stereotypically gay.’ His cultural history of how this attitude emerged in the 1970s will be surprising to those who view the gay-rights movement as a consistently positive progression; Halperin argues convincingly that as butch masculine styles became ever more mandatory, both for attracting sexual/romantic partners (no femmes, no fats!) as well as earning political credibility, the push toward conformity lead to the ‘euthanasia of traditional gay male culture.’ …How To Be Gay is intellectually rigorous [and] entertaining… Halperin demonstrates that those gays who do still identify with Bette and Joan, drag and drapes, Auntie Mame and Annie Lennox have something important to contribute to our ever more homogenous world. -- J. Bryan Lowder * Slate *Halperin rejoices in the growing acceptance of homosexuality in mainstream society, although he’s quick to point out that homophobia is still potent. He doesn’t want gay culture to be lost as assimilation increases. It’s a legitimate concern, and he makes his case forcefully. -- Tavo Amador * Bay Area Reporter *How To Be Gay engages many of the foundational questions—and dogmas—of queer studies… What, Halperin wants to know, is gay culture? …Halperin is plying his own twist on the familiar idea that by aligning themselves with certain forms—flamboyance, abject glamour, exaggerated femininity—gay men implicitly challenge the uptight codes of a patriarchal culture… Gay culture, for Halperin, isn’t really attached to any given person’s experience; rather, it’s a set of tactics, adopted behaviors, and strategies imbricated in a much larger social field… Frivolity, irony, superficiality, inauthenticity, flamboyance, snobbishness, exquisite taste: How To Be Gay works hard to unpack the stereotypical characteristics of gay male culture and succeeds in demonstrating how the taint of pathology and the rise of a post-Stonewall ethos of hypermasculine self-determination conspire to shut down a frank inquiry into the persistence of such ‘faggy’ traits. -- Nathan Lee * Bookforum *David M. Halperin has written a monumental work… In detail, the book explores the emotional and personalized subjectivity in describing what is at the core of gay culture and the innermost feelings of what it is to be ‘gay.’ …It is Halperin’s intent to create a serious dialogue, though there are many smiles to be had at the same time, while absorbing the process. How To Be Gay is both enlightening and refreshing in the personal discovery of self or for lack of a better phrase, the perfect way to understand the how, what, where and why ‘to turn your inner-gay on.’ -- Bill Biss * Edge *How To Be Gay is not an instruction manual, nor is it a ‘learning to love yourself’ self-help guide. Rather, Halperin’s book is an intervention against those who trumpet the ‘death of gay culture’ (which he argues has been declared for over 40 years now) now that widening tolerance and greater visibility of gays in the media should make Judy Garland, show tunes, and drag queens obsolete… Halperin’s fresh re-evaluation of the theory and practice of camp is one of his most fascinating insights… Halperin makes a case for camp as politically subversive and a case study for the complicated structure of gay identification… One gets the sense that Halperin anticipates his greatest detractors to not be social conservatives (though he has been their pariah in the past), but instead to be other gay men who fear the essentialism of acknowledging the role a distinct gay culture plays in shaping gay identity… Halperin narrates the history of this masculine reaction against gay culture, culling from his own memories in the ’70s of how newly ‘liberated’ gay men appropriated the machismo of biker culture, mustaches, and construction worker clothing to combat the stereotype of the pathetic queens and fairies of the previous generation. This is a valuable history lesson to readers from subsequent generations given that these signifiers of ’70s gay masculinity are now considered in the campy light of The Village People, and thus part of the gay culture from which today’s champions of machismo and normality try to distance their selves. How To Be Gay deserves a wide audience beyond academia, especially among today’s youth generation who come out in a climate more accepting of same-sex coupling, but still very much phobic and censorious of gay culture. -- Chase Dimock * Lambda Literary Review *How To Be Gay makes for as fun a viewing companion [to Mildred Pierce and Mommie Dearest] as it does a rigorously intelligent read… Whether you’re well-versed in all things gay or tend to avoid pop divas at all costs, How To Be Gay offers a fresh perspective on what we call gay culture, why so many of us love what we love and why we’re afraid to talk about it. Thankfully, as Halperin notes in his conclusion, gay male culture isn’t going anywhere—as long as there’s a straight culture to appropriate for our own ends. -- Jameson Fitzpatrick * Next Magazine *[A] weighty, thought-provoking tome… Halperin explores notions of gay male identity and stereotypes, wondering what has shaped gay behavior and whether it’s a reaction against the hetero-normative society into which we’re born. * Out in the City *David M. Halperin has written what might be called an archaeological study of gay culture. His excavation is a veritable public service to anyone who’s ever wondered why a Lady Gaga—or Judy Garland—holds a place in the LGBT community that isn’t quite the same among their heterosexual counterparts. Still, the very specter of ‘gay identity’ in a world where, for many, integration is viewed as the ultimate civil-rights victory, inevitably sparks controversy… His exhaustive exploration of the icons and idiosyncrasies associated with gay identity holds up a floor-length mirror to an entire subculture. -- Jim Brosseau * Outlooks *What is marvelous is Halperin’s rich analysis of many aspects of this gay cultural life, showing the distinctive ways it makes use of straight culture… This is not meant to be a coffee-table book, encyclopedia or ‘how-to manual’: these already exist. It is rather an erudite meditation by one of the world’s leading queer theorists. It provokes, sparkles and bristles with ideas, claims, defenses and the kind of epigrams…that would make for great seminar discussions… This is a great book, it will generate heated debate. -- Ken Plummer * Times Higher Education *Filled with thought-provoking ideas and hypotheses. Halperin doesn’t shy away from controversy here, nor does he bow to stereotypes. -- Terri Schlichenmeyer * Washington Blade *How To Be Gay posits that ‘gayness’ is not simply the act of two men having sex but a mode of perception that must be learned from—and shared by—other gay men. Halperin homes in on, among many topics, the yin and yang of gay male existence: the beauty and the camp. -- Chris Keech * Booklist *Halperin parses the pop culture of movies, music, style, camp, drag, and those totemic figures known as gay icons, to reveal the dirty little secret that many gay people may not wish to hear: there’s a hard little kernel of truth behind the stereotypes. -- Richard J. Violette * Library Journal *[How To Be Gay is] an attempt to unpack [Halperin’s] basic observation that there’s far more to gay male American identity than a same-sex preference. Halperin interprets gayness through traditional pop culture preoccupations like golden age Hollywood, opera, and Broadway musicals, focusing on Joan Crawford (in particular her role in Mildred Pierce) and Faye Dunaway’s notoriously over-the-top portrayal of the star in Mommie Dearest. Identifying the source of the camp appeal exerted by these ostensibly serious films, Halperin asks why gay men continue to be drawn to coded representations of their experience. He arrives at an apologia for such clichéd signposts of gayness in an era of domestic partnerships and ‘Born This Way.’ Halperin persuasively defuses charges of misogyny lobbed against gay male culture. * Publishers Weekly *How To Be Gay is a sheer pleasure to read and utterly thoughtful too: it is pedagogical in the most provocative sense. David Halperin’s acute attention to gay male sensibility provides a great case study in how sexuality takes shape as such, finding anchors for the expression of its pleasures and its dramas. A genuinely profound contribution to the scholarship on kitsch, camp, and melodrama, this book is also its own command performance of a gayness it wants to extend to its readers as a kind of friendly and exciting disturbance. -- Lauren Berlant, University of ChicagoHow To Be Gay, with its teasing title, asks whether there might be such a thing as gay culture that resides neither in our genes nor in our psyches. By insisting on gayness as a social form, the book offers an important provocation to contemporary queer criticism that resists the specification of identity. One could ask for no better guide through the complexities of late twentieth-century American gay male culture. -- Heather Love, University of PennsylvaniaDistinguished scholar David Halperin’s long-awaited manifesto delivers on its promise. Macho, faggy, queeny, butch diva, opera-swilling, Broadway-loving, gourmet, sex-fascinated, beauty-appreciating, love-desiring, rough trade, high art, race- and class-inflected but not exclusive, generationally situated but not entirely, intellectual, open-hearted, politically minded, leather chaps! Mary! -- Sarah Schulman, author of Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its ConsequencesI’ve always been a big fan of Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, and Doris Day. Though it was a secret, shameful love. David Halperin’s wonderful, wildly ambitious masterpiece has given me the courage to come out about it. And even tell the golden daffodils. As Halperin eloquently explains, desire into identity will not go, even with plenty of poppers and lube. What’s more, the dignified, proper, and very particular gay identity really doesn’t deserve the giddy, gushing, world-grabbing gay sensibility. And vice versa. -- Mark Simpson, journalist

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Book SynopsisA growing number of young men today say they are “mostly straight” and yet feel a slight but enduring desire for men. Ritch Savin-Williams explores the stories of 40 mostly straight young men to help us understand the biological, psychological, and cultural forces that are loosening the sexual bind many boys and young men experience.Trade ReviewAn illuminating new study about male sexual fluidity…Calling for a more modern understanding of sexual orientation, [Savin-Williams’s] idea is that increasing numbers of millennial metrosexual young men are shunning rigid notions of sexuality, and increasingly not identifying as straight, but mostly straight. These are not closeted gay or bisexual men but a new generation of guys who are predominantly heterosexual but have embraced the idea that sexuality exists on a spectrum and who have less anxiety than previous generations about being open to intimacy with other guys. -- Uli Lenart * Attitude *Savin-Williams, a highly respected psychologist and pioneer in research on sexual minority youth, brings us a fascinating and in-depth exploration of nonexclusive heterosexuality among young men. Woven around engaging first person narratives that defy gender stereotypes, and supported by emerging science on male sexual fluidity, Mostly Straight offers an opportunity to challenge the status quo of tripartite sexual identities and attractions—bi, gay, straight—and consider the possibility of a more flexible, and less categorical, sexuality. -- Meredith Chivers, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Sexuality and Gender Laboratory (SageLab), Queen’s UniversityThis is a book whose time has come, and there is no one better suited to tell these riveting, surprising stories than Ritch Savin-Williams. For too long, men who consider themselves ‘mostly straight’ have been invisible and misunderstood. Their experiences will challenge your assumptions about sexual identity and orientation and reveal blind spots in your thinking that you didn’t know you had. -- Lisa Diamond, author of Sexual FluidityIn this beautifully written book, Savin-Williams offers a nuanced and substantive portrait of an often overlooked group. He makes a forceful case that both the general public and the scientific community should recognize the existence and experiences of mostly straight men. -- Letitia Anne Peplau, University of California, Los Angeles

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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

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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

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