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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Sport
Book SynopsisOver the past two decades there has been a rapid transformation of masculinities in the West, largely facilitated by a decline in cultural homophobia. The significant changes in the expression of masculinity, particularly among younger generations of men, have been particularly evident in men’s team sports, which have become an increasingly diverse and inclusive culture. Drawing upon work from a wide range of established and emerging international scholars, this handbook provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of the contemporary relationship between masculinity and sport. It covers a range of areas including history, media, gender, sexuality, race, violence, and fandom, considering how they impact a range of different sports across the world. Students and scholars across many disciplines will find the unparalleled overview provided by these specially commissioned chapters an invaluable resource.Trade Review“For anyone wishing to learn more about masculinity(ies) and sport The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Sport has to be a ‘must read’. … the book is very successful at covering a huge range of issues and sports and doing so in a manner that engages the reader. As such, I thoroughly recommend it for anyone interested in masculinities in relation to sport.” (Neil Carr, Annals of Leisure Research, September 29, 2020)Table of Contents1. Introducing the Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Sport; Rory Magrath, Jamie Cleland and Eric Anderson.- Part I: The Foundations of Masculinity and Sport.-2. Theories of men and masculinity, and their ability to account for positive change; Brittany Ralph and Steven Roberts.- 3. Arousing cheer: Exhibitionism in men’s sports from Weimar to the present; Erik Jensen.- 4. ‘Land of my fathers’: Reflections on the evolution of a modern sports club; Campbell Williams.- 5. Sexual abuse and masculine cultures: Reflections on the British football scandal of 2016; Kevin Dixon.- Part II: Sport’s Use in Making and Stratifying Men.- 6. ‘It used to be brutal, now it’s an art’: Changing negotiations of violence and masculinity in British karate; Chloe Maclean.- 7. Figurational sociology and masculine embodiment in male physical education; Mark Mierzwinski and Philippa Velija.- 8. From powerhouses to pixies and back: boys, men, and troubled masculinity in artistic gymnastics; Aaron Gurlly.- 9. “I probably shouldn’t say this, should I…but…”: Mischievous masculinities as a way for men to convey reflexivity and make choices in sporting sites; Kitty Nichols.- 10. The positive impact of trans inclusion in team Sports: Men’s roller derby; Dawn Fletcher.- 11. I have no idea what my body is now capable of, or should I say ‘not capable of’: The ageing male body in sport: To midlife and beyondMurray Drummond.- Part III: Sport, Masculinity, and the Media.- 12. “Man’s game:” Media, masculinity, and early Canadian hockey; Taylor McKee and Brittany Reid.- 13. Commodification and heroic masculinity: Interrogating race and the NFL quarterback in Super Bowl commercials; Lawrence A. Wenner.- 14. “I Hate Christian Laettner” and the persistence of hegemonic masculinity and heteronormativity in sporting cultures; Nathan Kalman-Lamb.- 15. Dance diversity on YouTube: How participatory culture encourages inclusive masculinities; Craig Owen and Sarah Riley.- 16. Making American white men great again: Tom Brady, Donald Trump, and the allure of white male omnipotence in post-Obama America; Kyle Kusz.- Part IV: The Relationship Between Masculinity and Sexuality.- 17. The man on the horse: Masculinity and sexuality in British horse racing; David Letts.- 18. Masculinity and inclusive rugby in the UK; Ken Muir, Keith Parry and Eric Anderson.- 19. Association football, masculinity, and sexuality: An evolving relationship; Jamie Cleland and Rory Magrath.- 20. “They were constantly harassing us and a lot of it was to do with our sexuality”: Masculinities, heteronormativity and homophobia in university-based sport; Catherine Phipps.- 21. From stoicism to bromance: millennial men’s friendships Ryan Scoats and Stefan Robinson.- 22. Inclusive masculinities in American high school athletics: An ethnography; Luis Emilio Morales; Part V: International Sporting Masculinities.- 23. Developing sport in a developing nation: Gendered challenges and considerations; Kerry Wardell.- 24. Boys in rhythmic gymnastics: Gymnasts’, parents’ and coaches’ perspectives from Southern Spain; Joaquin Piedra, Daniel Gallardo and George Jennings.- 25. Exploring the attitudes towards homosexuality of a semi-professional Swedish football team with an openly gay teammate; Connor Humphries, Lindsey Gaston, Rory Magrath and Adam White.- 26. Sport and masculinities in Sweden: Performance and the notion of gender equality; Håkan Larsson and Jesper Andreasson.- 27. Sport, masculinities and disabilities in Zimbabwe; Tafadzwa Rugoho.- 28. Turkish oil wrestling and the Western gaze: Hegemonic heteronormativity, Islamic body culture, and folk wrestling masculinities; Thomas Fabian.- 29. The reproduction of hegemonic masculinity in football fandom. An analysis of the performance of Polish ultras; Radosław Kossakowski, Dominik Antonowicz and Honorata Jakubowska.- 30. Is soccer just for machos?: The construction of masculinity in contemporary Peruvian kick-lit” stories and “kick-flicks”; Jesús Hidalgo Campos.
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Brill Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China
Book SynopsisIn Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home. No other work covers the forms and practices of men and masculinities in contemporary China so comprehensively. Through carefully exploring the global, regional and local influences on men and representations of men in postmillennial China, Song and Hird show that Chinese masculinity is anything but monolithic. They reveal a complex, shifting plurality of men and masculinities—from stay-at-home internet geeks to karaoke-singing, relationship-building businessmen—which contest and consolidate “conventional” notions of masculinity in multiple ways.Trade Review"The authors of this book - a humanistic scholar and a social scientist - have produced a theoretically sophisticated analysis of contemporary Chinese masculinities. Solidly grounded in China's everyday life, the book ranges across media and through diverse social contexts. I strongly recommend it." Professor Kam Louie, University of Hong Kong "[Song and Hird] have provided a critical analysis of the gender roles and narratives of men in China.[...]the authors presented a clear depiction of the complex and often conflicting roles for Chinese men in multiple contexts of their lives.[...]I expect students, scholars, and researchers alike to find Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China accessible and very useful. Most certainly, Song and Hird have contributed significant scholarship to the critical study of gender from Chinese and international perspectives." Jennifer Chain, University of Oregon, African and Asian Studies 13.1-2 (2014) "Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China provides a much-needed synthesis of recent work on masculinity in the contemporary PRC and offers multiple original contributions based on the authors’ own analyses of contemporary media discourses and representations as well as their interviews with dozens of Chinese men and women." John Osburg, University of Rochester, Nan Nü 16-2 (2014) “The authors of this book provide a fascinating and multi-faceted description of narratives and self-narratives of ‘masculinities’ in contemporary China. They employ a variety of approaches ranging from a media-based discourse analysis […]to an anthropologically-oriented approach in their chapters ” Jens Damm, Chang Jung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 1-3" "Impressive in its depth and complexity, this book stands as a critical entry point into studies of men's identities and practices in present-day China. In short, to write a compelling and coherent book on a topic as broad and diffuse as masculinity would alone be a notable achievement; to do so in a way that not only respects but embraces the contingencies, the multiplicity, and the heterogeneity inherent to this topic is more impressive still." Andrew Lea, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 37, March 2015. "The authors, Geng Song and Derek Hird, provide a thought provoking analysis of the contradictions, instability, and fluidity of both lived and virtual [re]presentation(s) of contemporary men and masculinities in China. [...] Through ethnographies, qualitative interviews, literary studies, and discourse analysis, this book reveals the nuances, contradictions, and complexities of manhood in China [and] contributes to an understanding of ‘nonwestern’ masculinities and adds to a burgeoning discourse of ‘global masculinities.’" Trevor McArthur, Stellenbosch University, NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies, 10:2, July 2015. "Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China provides a valuable guide to the new configurations of manhood that have emerged in urban China over the past couple of decades of explosive economic growth and dizzying social change. The authors’ focus is on the ideals and images that influence white-collar men’s self-perceptions and self-fashioning in the postsocialist world of work and consumption." Matthew H. Sommer, Stanford University, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, September 2015. "[...] what Song and Hird foregound in the book is that, with rapid social transformation and the rise of commercialization, men in China face new challenges regarding what 'ideal manhood' means. The authors succeed in demonstrating the coexisting but often conflicted demands men face, and their analyses offer interseting ways to understand the changes and challenges." Xueping Zhong, Tufts University, "The China Journal, No. 75.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Chinese Masculinity: Is There Such a Thing? 1 Masculinities on Television 2 Masculinities in Lifestyle Magazines 3 Masculinities in Cyberspace 4 Masculinities at Work 5 Masculinities at Leisure 6 Masculinities at Home Epilogue: Performing Manhood in Contemporary China Glossary Bibliography Index
£140.00
Brill Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice
Book SynopsisConfiguring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice combines a critical survey of the most current developments in the emergent field of Masculinity Studies with both a historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed within British Literature from the Middle Ages to the present and a special focus on developments in the 20th and 21st centuries. The volume combines seminal articles on the most important concepts in Masculinity Studies by acknowledged experts such as Raewyn Connell, Todd Reeser, and Richard Collier with new and innovative analyses of key British literary texts combining Literary and Cultural Studies approaches with those currently deployed in Masculinity Studies, Gender Studies, Legal Studies, Postcolonial Studies as well as methodologies derived from sociology.Trade Review"The collection opens with three essays that provide broad and thorough introductions to key developments in the field [of masculinity studies] over time. Stefan Horlacher’s introduction, entitled “Configuring Masculinity”, is a succinct exploration of just what is and what might be this “new field of research” called masculinity studies. For those new to the field, Horlacher’s review of the field’s development serves as an important first step toward future studies; for those who’ve been at it a while, it serves as a good take on just how we can make this field matter, not just to literary studies, but to all inquiries into the humanities. […] We know by now that masculinity has moved beyond a single, stable benchmark against which all male behavior can be read. What we don’t know is what’s next, and the essays here help us envision the possibilities of what the future of masculinities studies might hold. What all of these readings do, to various degrees, can be applied to the reading of any work of literature, and I would suggest other works of art as well. They teach us how to note and interpret the many visions and versions of masculinity that we come upon as we move through the business of making sense and lessons out of whatever reading and interpreting we may do.” - Fred Gardaphe, Queens College/CUNY, in: Culture, Society & Masculinities 8.1 (2016), pp. 82-84 "This set of essays is ideal for readers who wish to gain new interpretative methodologies to reading literary texts.” - Georgina Bozsó, University of Debrecen, HU, in: Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies 23.2 (2017), pp. 440-444Table of ContentsCONTENTS Stefan Horlacher Configuring Masculinity Todd W. Reeser Concepts of Masculinity and Masculinity Studies Raewyn Connell Masculinities: The Field of Knowledge Richard Collier On Reading Men, Law and Gender: Legal Regulation and the New Politics of Masculinity Christoph Houswitschka Masculinity in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur Mark Bracher From Antisocial to Prosocial Manhood: Shakespeare’s Rescripting of Masculinity in As You Like It Rainer Emig Sentimental Masculinity: Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771) Stefan Horlacher “Joseph the Dreamer of Dreams”: Jude Fawley’s Construction of Masculinity in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure Sebastian Müller From Angry Young Scholarship Boy to Male Role Model: The Rise of the Working-Class Hero Fatemeh Hosseini “Filiarchy” and Masculinity in the Early Novels of Ian McEwan Bettina Schötz “What Is a Man?”, or the Representation of Masculinity in Hanif Kureishi’s Short Fiction Bénédicte Ledent Of Invisible Men and Native Sons: Male Characters in Caryl Phillips’ Fiction Daniel Lukes Surrogate Dads: Interrogating Fatherhood in Will Self’sThe Book of Dave Notes on Contributors Index
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Brill Masculinités maghrébines: Nouvelles perspectives sur la culture, la littérature et le cinéma
Book SynopsisThis volume seeks to revisit the Franco-Maghrebian representations of masculinity in the line of the New Men’s Studies examining the cultural codes, the aesthetical expressions as well as their interconnectedness with the socio-political realities. Dans la lignée des études sur le masculin, ce volume a pour objectif de revisiter les manifestations de la masculinité en contexte franco-maghrébin en éclairant autant les codes culturels, les expressions littéraires et cinématographiques que leur rapport aux réalités sociopolitiques.Table of ContentsIntroduction Claudia Gronemann Part 1: Études dans le champ social et culturel 1 Masculinités et production érotiques au Maroc Gianfranco Rebucini 2 Les Mésaventures du masculin postcolonial à travers le Texte maghrébin : de la Red̲j̲la aux papiches dans l’Imaginaire algérien Mourad Yelles 3 Masculinité (vs féminité) et parole littéraire en berbère de Kabylie Mohand-Akli Salhi 4 Basculement, renversement et révolution dans les relations entre genres et les comportements sexuels maghrébins Denise Brahimi Part 2: Études cinématographiques 5 Circularité sans issue ? La Citadelle (El-Kalaa) de Mohamed Chouikh Michael Gebhard 6 Melancholic Masculinity in Nouri Bouzid’s Man of Ashes Kristine Hempel 7 La Double Altérité cinématographique de l’Autre maghrébin-homosexuel, entre exotisme, identification et décorporisation Manuel Billi 8 Follitudes maghrébines et parodies en tous genres. Chouchou (Merzak Allouache) et La Folle Histoire d’amour de Simon Eskenazy (Jean-Jacques Zilbermann) Renaud Lagabrielle 9 Masculinité et sexualités dans le cinéma tunisien Alexie Tcheuyap Part 3: Études littéraires 10 Le Mâle/Mal de la Mélancolie : homoérotisme et masculinité inadaptée chez Abdellah Taïa Claudia Gronemann 11 Transgressions des normes de genre et homosexualité dans Une vie à trois de Bahaa Trabelsi Sabrina Nepozitek 12 Masculinités en crise. Ravisseur et La Vie sexuelle d’un islamiste à Paris de Leïla Marouane Birgit Mertz-Baumgartner 13 La Représentation satirique de la Masculinité dans le Roman algérien et « beur » Lila Medjahed 14 Father Figures in Beur Literature – a Comparison of Kiffe kiffe demain by Faïza Guène, Pieds-blancs by Houda Rouane and Les Chiens aussi by Azouz Begag Ronja Schicke 15 Écriture et construction du corps masculin/féminin chez Mohammed Dib. L’exemple de Habel et Cours sur la Rive sauvage Mourida Akaichi Index
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Brill The Daddies
Book SynopsisThe Daddies is a love letter to masculinity, a kaleidoscope of its pleasures and horrors. The question “Who’s your Daddy?” started showing up in mainstream cultural references during the 1990s. Those words can be spoken as a question, or a challenge, as a flirtation, a joke, or a threat. It’s all about inflection, intention, and who’s asking. Apparently, we have so much shared cultural meaning about “Daddy” the speakers and listeners can simply intuit meaning and proceed to laugh at the joke, or experience the shame, as appropriate. But who is Daddy in American culture? The Daddies aims to find out more than who – but how the process of knowing Daddy can prompt readers to know themselves and their society. This allegory about patriarchy unfolds as a kinky lesbian Daddy/girl love story. Daddy-ness is situated in all people, after all, and we each share responsibility for creating a fairer world. The Daddies can be used as a springboard for discussion in courses in sociology, gender and women's studies, cultural studies, sexuality studies and communication. As a work of fiction, The Daddies can also be enjoyed by general audiences.Trade Review"No one anywhere writes all the way through eros, power exchange, and sexuality more fiercely than Kimberly Dark. In The Daddies, Kimberly risks what most writers will not, opening up and asking how masculinity has woven through every realm of our existence, how it has seduced us, betrayed us, protected us, violated us, how it lives in men and women and every other gender and sexuality, how we are facing a reckoning. Kimberly Dark asks us to embrace and reimagine masculinity from the inside out and hold the embrace long enough to change the world." – Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Small Backs of Children and Chronology of Water "To say that The Daddies is an intensely textured, kaleidoscopic take on masculinity, Daddy-dom, and the pleasures, perils, and politics of femininity is only partly true. More accurately it is a hypersaturated, unrelenting Willy Wonka boat ride through a pulsating circulatory system of patriarchy, pain, and desire. Kimberly Dark has done something brave and difficult here, and I do not refer merely to the text." – Hanne Blank, author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality "Dark’s work is a multi-layered hybrid of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, autoethnography, biomythography, and collage, which explores the concepts of “Daddy” through social critique of news and pop culture. This is the very best of Dark – storytelling that highlights gendered interactions and what they tell us about erotic love and masculinity. This book caresses important things in social science that need focus and attention – sexual abuse, gendered expectations, and figuring out identity and desire in a patriarchal world. Dark’s panache for nuanced cultural analysis and story-telling makes this book the kind of medicine you can’t wait to take; you will want to buy a copy for all the people in your life." – Sandra L. Faulkner, Director Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Bowling Green State University, author of Writing the Personal and Knit Four, Frog One "About time someone wrote this book! And what good news that a writer and researcher as skilled as Kimberly Dark has taken it on." – Laurel Richardson, author of Why I Love Ernest “Feminist in its worldmaking, intellectual in its erotic poetry, and razor sharp in its depictions of contemporary American gender ideology, Kimberly Dark’s The Daddies is a complex and genre-bending contribution to the archive of queer feeling and to theorizing through storytelling. In this autoethnography of Daddy’s worlds, the girls who inhabit and work in them are allowed to examine pleasures and pains of power and contradiction. Taking a range of positions, Dark’s writing dares to interrogate the psychic structures and deep ambivalences of a queer desire and kinship form in ways that move us beyond simplistic ideas of perversion and subversion. The Daddies is a welcome addition to fem(me)inist sexual theory and a portrait of contemporary patriarchy by and for daddy’s girls, by an author who has lived and survived and dared to tell. Plus we learn more about what is at the root of #metoo and its perpetual reproductions from this book than many other contemporary sources.” – Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University, co-author of Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities “Daddy is a person with the kind of power that asks to be misused. This is an honest, disturbing, difficult confrontation with the uncontainable. A labor of truth-telling." – Sarah Schulman, author of The Cosmopolitans and Conflict is Not Abuse “In this intricate and robust account, Kimberly Dark explores the world of Daddies who repel and compel us. Dark reveals in story after story a masculine culture that garners consent and insists on resistance. For readers who think this is not their world, they may be surprised to find themselves. For readers who already live there, they will see themselves rendered with sensitivity, intelligence, and compassion. For all readers, they will feel they are in the trusted hands of a careful scholar and skilled writer. Pleasure waits for those who will allow Kimberly Dark to take charge from page one to the very last word.” – Ronald J. Pelias, University of Louisiana "The Daddies is an unforgettable book. Beautifully written, brutally honest, poignant – essential reading for anyone interested in the complexity of gender identity, relationships and sexuality, the forever affect of incest between daddy and daughter, as well as the importance of sharing our stories as part of the journey toward transformation and healing.” – Mary E. Weems, author of Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues “What a deep and moving work, with plenty of meat for the erotic imagination *and* our inner culture spelunker. Kimberly Dark's strong, nimble writing dances complexly – but so, so readably – through the mythic, the erotic, the sociopolitical, the pop-cultural. It invites us to take an insight-provoking journey through many kinds of gender, many kinds of sex, many kinds of love. Thank you, Kimberly, for refusing to whittle all this down to make it seem simple.” – Carol Queen, PhD, author of The Leather Daddy & the Femme and Real Live Nude GirlTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Daddies Part 1: Origins Chapter 1: Shooting and Spanking and Who’s Your Daddy? Shooting Lessons Spanking The Etymology of Colloquy Chapter 2: The First Time Chapter 3: The President and the Metaphors Presidential Daddy Getting What I Want Reviewing the Literature Chapter 4: Looking for Safety at Daddy’s House What It Means to Know Everything Formality Mon Coeur est a Papa Chapter 5: Coming into My Room at Night Chapter 6: Daddies, Daughters and Strippers Daddies, Daughters and Strippers When Sex Is Absent Part 2: Actions Chapter 7: The First Time II Chapter 8: University Daddy Chapter 9: Daddy God Daddy God Out of the Woods Chapter 10: Daddy’s Territory Two Points on a Map Daddy’s Dinner Chapter 11: The Purity Ball Ignoring the News Daddy vs. Girl Purity Showdown Chapter 12: Confusion Hurts Funny Business in the Broadmoor Confusion Hurts Chapter 13: Abroad with Daddy Daddy Gets a Passport Daddy on Holiday Chapter 14: Playboy, Panties, Papi Daddy Likes Playboy Magazine Panties Daddy in the News Chapter 15: Parenting Daddy Parenting Daddy Parenting Daddy Chapter 16: Self-Awareness The List Sexism Chapter 17: Loving Masculinity My Lover’s Wounds The Fight Chapter 18: Be Grateful for What You Have Chapter 19: Deliberate Power Women and Wolves Power What Does a Girl Want from Daddy? Chapter 20: Keeping Daddy in Line Mistrusting Daddy Keeping Daddy in Line Chapter 21: Intergenerational Incest Family True Pleasure Chapter 22: Incest Culture Chapter 23: Do We Know Ourselves in Each Other’s Eyes? Too Young Dominating Daddy Wrath Chapter 24: Knowledge Is King The Most Powerful Position Possible Daddy Sick Chapter 25: Don’t Make Me Leave You Text Free Lover Chapter 26: Possibility Incantation Dollhouse Part 3: Transformation Chapter 27: The Turning The Collapse of the Big Buildings A Note to My Previous Daddy Chapter 28: Daddy’s Vessel Chapter 29: The End Daddy’s Goodbye The Blade Chapter 30: The Storyteller Storyteller Me One of the Oddities in the Curiosity Cabinet of Kimberly’s Psyche Chapter 31: My Father’s Time Realizing In the Reckoning Chapter 32: Pleasure Pleasing Daddy Chapter 33: Choosing to Change Why Should Daddy Change? Beautiful Failure Chapter 34: Start with Salt Discussion Guide References About the Author
£25.89
Brill The Daddies
Book SynopsisThe Daddies is a love letter to masculinity, a kaleidoscope of its pleasures and horrors. The question “Who’s your Daddy?” started showing up in mainstream cultural references during the 1990s. Those words can be spoken as a question, or a challenge, as a flirtation, a joke, or a threat. It’s all about inflection, intention, and who’s asking. Apparently, we have so much shared cultural meaning about “Daddy” the speakers and listeners can simply intuit meaning and proceed to laugh at the joke, or experience the shame, as appropriate. But who is Daddy in American culture? The Daddies aims to find out more than who – but how the process of knowing Daddy can prompt readers to know themselves and their society. This allegory about patriarchy unfolds as a kinky lesbian Daddy/girl love story. Daddy-ness is situated in all people, after all, and we each share responsibility for creating a fairer world. The Daddies can be used as a springboard for discussion in courses in sociology, gender and women's studies, cultural studies, sexuality studies and communication. As a work of fiction, The Daddies can also be enjoyed by general audiences.Trade Review"No one anywhere writes all the way through eros, power exchange, and sexuality more fiercely than Kimberly Dark. In The Daddies, Kimberly risks what most writers will not, opening up and asking how masculinity has woven through every realm of our existence, how it has seduced us, betrayed us, protected us, violated us, how it lives in men and women and every other gender and sexuality, how we are facing a reckoning. Kimberly Dark asks us to embrace and reimagine masculinity from the inside out and hold the embrace long enough to change the world." – Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Small Backs of Children and Chronology of Water "To say that The Daddies is an intensely textured, kaleidoscopic take on masculinity, Daddy-dom, and the pleasures, perils, and politics of femininity is only partly true. More accurately it is a hypersaturated, unrelenting Willy Wonka boat ride through a pulsating circulatory system of patriarchy, pain, and desire. Kimberly Dark has done something brave and difficult here, and I do not refer merely to the text." – Hanne Blank, author of Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality "Dark’s work is a multi-layered hybrid of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, autoethnography, biomythography, and collage, which explores the concepts of “Daddy” through social critique of news and pop culture. This is the very best of Dark – storytelling that highlights gendered interactions and what they tell us about erotic love and masculinity. This book caresses important things in social science that need focus and attention – sexual abuse, gendered expectations, and figuring out identity and desire in a patriarchal world. Dark’s panache for nuanced cultural analysis and story-telling makes this book the kind of medicine you can’t wait to take; you will want to buy a copy for all the people in your life." – Sandra L. Faulkner, Director Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Bowling Green State University, author of Writing the Personal and Knit Four, Frog One "About time someone wrote this book! And what good news that a writer and researcher as skilled as Kimberly Dark has taken it on." – Laurel Richardson, author of Why I Love Ernest “Feminist in its worldmaking, intellectual in its erotic poetry, and razor sharp in its depictions of contemporary American gender ideology, Kimberly Dark’s The Daddies is a complex and genre-bending contribution to the archive of queer feeling and to theorizing through storytelling. In this autoethnography of Daddy’s worlds, the girls who inhabit and work in them are allowed to examine pleasures and pains of power and contradiction. Taking a range of positions, Dark’s writing dares to interrogate the psychic structures and deep ambivalences of a queer desire and kinship form in ways that move us beyond simplistic ideas of perversion and subversion. The Daddies is a welcome addition to fem(me)inist sexual theory and a portrait of contemporary patriarchy by and for daddy’s girls, by an author who has lived and survived and dared to tell. Plus we learn more about what is at the root of #metoo and its perpetual reproductions from this book than many other contemporary sources.” – Ulrika Dahl, Professor of Gender Studies at Uppsala University, co-author of Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities “Daddy is a person with the kind of power that asks to be misused. This is an honest, disturbing, difficult confrontation with the uncontainable. A labor of truth-telling." – Sarah Schulman, author of The Cosmopolitans and Conflict is Not Abuse “In this intricate and robust account, Kimberly Dark explores the world of Daddies who repel and compel us. Dark reveals in story after story a masculine culture that garners consent and insists on resistance. For readers who think this is not their world, they may be surprised to find themselves. For readers who already live there, they will see themselves rendered with sensitivity, intelligence, and compassion. For all readers, they will feel they are in the trusted hands of a careful scholar and skilled writer. Pleasure waits for those who will allow Kimberly Dark to take charge from page one to the very last word.” – Ronald J. Pelias, University of Louisiana "The Daddies is an unforgettable book. Beautifully written, brutally honest, poignant – essential reading for anyone interested in the complexity of gender identity, relationships and sexuality, the forever affect of incest between daddy and daughter, as well as the importance of sharing our stories as part of the journey toward transformation and healing.” – Mary E. Weems, author of Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues “What a deep and moving work, with plenty of meat for the erotic imagination *and* our inner culture spelunker. Kimberly Dark's strong, nimble writing dances complexly – but so, so readably – through the mythic, the erotic, the sociopolitical, the pop-cultural. It invites us to take an insight-provoking journey through many kinds of gender, many kinds of sex, many kinds of love. Thank you, Kimberly, for refusing to whittle all this down to make it seem simple.” – Carol Queen, PhD, author of The Leather Daddy & the Femme and Real Live Nude GirlTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: The Daddies Part 1: Origins Chapter 1: Shooting and Spanking and Who’s Your Daddy? Shooting Lessons Spanking The Etymology of Colloquy Chapter 2: The First Time Chapter 3: The President and the Metaphors Presidential Daddy Getting What I Want Reviewing the Literature Chapter 4: Looking for Safety at Daddy’s House What It Means to Know Everything Formality Mon Coeur est a Papa Chapter 5: Coming into My Room at Night Chapter 6: Daddies, Daughters and Strippers Daddies, Daughters and Strippers When Sex Is Absent Part 2: Actions Chapter 7: The First Time II Chapter 8: University Daddy Chapter 9: Daddy God Daddy God Out of the Woods Chapter 10: Daddy’s Territory Two Points on a Map Daddy’s Dinner Chapter 11: The Purity Ball Ignoring the News Daddy vs. Girl Purity Showdown Chapter 12: Confusion Hurts Funny Business in the Broadmoor Confusion Hurts Chapter 13: Abroad with Daddy Daddy Gets a Passport Daddy on Holiday Chapter 14: Playboy, Panties, Papi Daddy Likes Playboy Magazine Panties Daddy in the News Chapter 15: Parenting Daddy Parenting Daddy Parenting Daddy Chapter 16: Self-Awareness The List Sexism Chapter 17: Loving Masculinity My Lover’s Wounds The Fight Chapter 18: Be Grateful for What You Have Chapter 19: Deliberate Power Women and Wolves Power What Does a Girl Want from Daddy? Chapter 20: Keeping Daddy in Line Mistrusting Daddy Keeping Daddy in Line Chapter 21: Intergenerational Incest Family True Pleasure Chapter 22: Incest Culture Chapter 23: Do We Know Ourselves in Each Other’s Eyes? Too Young Dominating Daddy Wrath Chapter 24: Knowledge Is King The Most Powerful Position Possible Daddy Sick Chapter 25: Don’t Make Me Leave You Text Free Lover Chapter 26: Possibility Incantation Dollhouse Part 3: Transformation Chapter 27: The Turning The Collapse of the Big Buildings A Note to My Previous Daddy Chapter 28: Daddy’s Vessel Chapter 29: The End Daddy’s Goodbye The Blade Chapter 30: The Storyteller Storyteller Me One of the Oddities in the Curiosity Cabinet of Kimberly’s Psyche Chapter 31: My Father’s Time Realizing In the Reckoning Chapter 32: Pleasure Pleasing Daddy Chapter 33: Choosing to Change Why Should Daddy Change? Beautiful Failure Chapter 34: Start with Salt Discussion Guide References About the Author
£86.40
Ian Randle Publishers,Jamaica Man Vibes: Masculinities in Jamaican Dancehall
Book SynopsisIn Jamaica, dancehall music and culture has become perhaps the most prominent expression of Jamaican popular culture. Taking its name from dance halls in which popular local recordings were played by sound systems, the concept of Dancehall as a cultural space has rapidly gained momentum in the last three decades as deejay stars enjoy unprecedented successes locally and internationally. Donna Hope builds on her earlier work on popular culture and theories of sexuality/gender to examine the process and progress of Jamaican masculinities. Man Vibes: Masculinities in Jamaican Dancehall explores Jamaican masculinity through the male-dominated dancehall space that is at once a celebration of the marginalized poor and also a challenge to social inequality. Using the major masculine debates that are articulated in dancehall music and culture, Hope explores the transition of Jamaican masculinity in the 21st century. The dancehall representations of Ole Dawg (promiscuity), Badman (violence), Chi Chi Man (anti-male homosexuality), Bling Bling (consumerist/consumptive) and Fashion Ova Style (stylized transgressions and homosexuality) are all used to evaluate the relationship between dancehall culture and the hegemonic standard of masculine. Man Vibes significantly advances the Cultural Studies agenda and acts as a contemporary reader by speaking not only to dancehall music and culture’s masculinities but to Jamaican and Black masculinities in general.
£24.01
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp LGBTQIA Activism and Advocacy
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Independently Published The Men The Fathers The Protectors
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Independently Published Entitled 9
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Frederick k Lancaster The Power of Small Wins
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Oxford University Press Inc Old Man Country
Book SynopsisWe live in a time of change, an era where old men can be celebrated as elders who are valued but who are not demeaned if they become ill and dependent. Where we aim to maintain health but find dignity in frailty. Old Man Country helps readers see and imagine this change for themselves. The book follows the journey of a writer in search of wisdom, as he narrates encounters with twelve distinguished American men over 80 -- including Paul Volcker, the former head of the Federal Reserve, and Denton Cooley, the world''s most famous heart surgeon. In these and other intimate conversations, the book explores and honors the particular way that each man faces four challenges of living a good old age: Am I Still a Man? Do I Still Matter? What is the Meaning of My Life? Am I Loved? Readers will come to see how each man -- even the most famous -- faces challenges that are every man''s challenges. Personal yet universal stories about work, love, sexuality, and hope mingle with stories about illnessTrade Review"Our culture too often defines our lives as a journey of three parts, the final one running from age 65 until death. But as Thomas Cole makes clear there is a "fourth age," encompassing those over 80, and it's growing at four-times the rate of the U. S. population as a whole. Intertwining elegant snippets of his personal recollections with riveting interviews of well-known 'fourth age' men, Cole pushes us to reconsider the holistic nature of our lives. Not just an important book, but a revolutionary one as well." * David Oshinsky, Director, Division of Medical Humanities, New York University *"Beautifully written, honest, and insightful, Cole's Old Man Country tackles key questions about aging and manhood, blending profiles and memoir to show us how exceptional men (including the author himself ) change and adapt to old age." * Louise Aronson, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and author of Elderhood *"What is a good old age? At a time when 10,000 Americans turn 65 each day, the question is more timely than ever. In Old Man Country, Cole concludes there's not one answer, but many. His deeply personal interviews with men in the 'fourth age' reveal that growth doesn't come to a sudden halt in middle age and that there are countless ways to prove that life still matters even in the face of inevitable physical decline." * Richard M. Smith, President, The Pinkerton Foundation *"At a time when our culture is calling male privilege into question, Cole's interviews reveal much about the actual lives of men at the pinnacle of American privilege, as they candidly reflect on their decades of influence across a wide range of fields. Readers of Old Man Country will meet a dozen powerful personalities in their 80s and 90s, from former Fed chairman Paul Volcker to spiritual guru Ram Dass, as well as those less well known. Their reflections on family, work, love, and, most importantly, life's meaning are sometimes leavened by unvarnished observations from the women in their lives. Along the way, Cole offers valuable insights from his own moving journey into later life." * Paul Kleyman, Founder and National Coordinator, Journalists Network on Generations *Table of ContentsChapter One: What My Fathers Couldn't Find Chapter Two: Setting Out on Life's Journey PART ONE: AM I STILL A MAN? Chapter Three: George Vaillant and American Manhood Chapter Four: Red Duke, the Cowboy Surgeon Chapter Five: Sherwin Nuland: The Old Man Who Was Young and Strong PART TWO: DO I STILL MATTER? Chapter Six: The Moral World of Paul Volcker Chapter Seven: Denton Cooley and the Legacy of 100,000 Hearts Chapter Eight: John Harper Gets by with a little Help from his Friends PART THREE: WHAT IS THE MEANING OF MY LIFE? Chapter Nine: Hugh Downs: TV Broadcaster as Modern Day Cicero Chapter Ten: Sam Karff and the Power of Stories Chapter Eleven: James Forbes: Old Man by the Riverside PART FOUR: AM I LOVED? Chapter Twelve: Dan Callahan: Love in the Old Age of Ethics Chapter Thirteen: Walter Wink: Nonviolent Resistance and Dementia Chapter Fourteen: Ram Dass and Me INTERLUDE: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? Chapter Fifteen: Gleanings for the Path Ahead References
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Edinburgh University Press Masculinity and Popular Television
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera, homosexuality in the situation comedy, the portrayal of fatherhood in prime-time animation, emerging manhood in the supernatural teen text, alternative gender roles in science fiction, male authority in the police series, masculine anxieties in the hospital drama, violence and aggression in sports coverage, ordinariness and emotional connectedness in the reality game show, and domesticity in lifestyle television. Masculinity and Popular Television examines the ways in which masculinities are being constructed, circulated and interrogated in contemporary British and American programming, and considers the ways in which such images can be understood in relation to the ''common sense'' model of the hegemonic male that is said to dominate the cultural landscape.Table of Contents1. Introduction: theorising masculinities on the small screen; 2. Soap Opera: the male role in the women's genre; 3. Situation Comedy: homosexuality and male camaraderie; 4. Animation: masculinity in the nuclear family; 5. Teen Programming: isolation, alienation and emerging manhood; 6. Science Fiction and Fantasy Television: challenging dominant gender roles; 7. Trauma Television: reassurance, anxiety and the doctor hero; 8. Police and Crime Drama: investigating male authority; 9. Sports: media events and masculine discourse; 10. Reality Television: ordinariness, exhibitionism and emotional intelligence; 11. Lifestyle: domestic labour and leisure activities; 12. Advertising: social life, social standing and sex; 13. Conclusion: the future of masculinity on television; Bibliography.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Masculinity and Italian Cinema
Book SynopsisOffers a study of how Italian films re-envisage male identity in response to sexual liberation. This book examines how this preoccupation with male identity becomes especially acute in the 1970s when a set of more diverse and inclusive images of men emerge in response to the rise of feminism and gay liberation.
£85.50
Random House USA Inc The Male Brain
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LEGARE STREET PR Histoire Philosophique du Genre Humain ou Lhomme Tome Second
£20.66
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Face of the Firm
Book SynopsisDespite decades of greater awareness of gender at work in Western countries, gender inequality in the executive suites is alive and well. The Face of the Firm highlights new critical perspectives on the relationship between hegemonic masculine cultures, gender embodiment and gender disparities in corporate organizations. Using multiple methodologies including over 100 interviews, mainly with British female and male executives in the UK who worked for some of the most prestigious American and British multinational advertising agencies and computer companies, the book makes important connections between the empirical data and contemporary sexism in the UK and US. The book refocuses the debate of executive work, organizational spaces and gender inequality on gendered bodies at work. It also demonstrates that gendered and sexualized relations among executives often construct the production process. The book makes a contribution to masculinity, gender and work scholarship aTrade Review"Michele Gregory's The Face of the Firm is a detailed study of what was happening in the late 1980s in advertising and computing industries. But it is also much more in charting continuities with and differences from business today, including how the two industries, then distinct and largely separate, have now become so closely intertwined. It is a 'must read' not only for those committed to the critical analysis of gender, diversity and organizations, but also those concerned with HRM, ICTs, and technology more generally."Jeff Hearn, Örebro University, Sweden; University of Huddersfield, UK; author of Men of the World"In this compelling book, Professor Gregory considers the role of hegemonic masculinity in creating and proscribing gendered roles, work, and experiences in advertising and computing industries in the United Kingdom and the United States. The rich, multi-method study documents disparities between beliefs, attitudes, perceptions, and experiences of corporate men and women as they work and live. Relevant to countless other industries, organizations, and settings, this book provides eye-opening evidence of the continued need to pursue gender equality and inclusion." Myrtle Bell, University of Texas at ArlingtonTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: Corporate Masculine Embodiment and Mechanisms of Inequality at WorkChapter 2: Gendered Structures and Masculine Cultures in Advertising and ComputingChapter 3: Homogeneity: In His ImageChapter 4: Homosociability: Make Way for the Men’s RoomChapter 5: A League Of Their Own: A Minor League with Major PotentialChapter 6: Heterosexuality: Mad Men British StyleChapter 7: Conclusion: New Businesses, Old Habits and Challenges to EqualityAppendices:Appendix A: MethodologyAppendix B: The Interview ScheduleAppendix C: Computer Personnel DataAppendix D: Questionnaire ResultsAppendix E: Advertising Department and Gender DataReferencesIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Asian Gang Revisited
Book SynopsisIn her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim masculinities in South London. Set against the backdrop of the moral panic over Asian gangs' in the mid-1990s, and based on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explored the idea of the gang', friendships, and the role of brothers' in the formation, performance and negotiation of ethnic, religious and gendered identities.The Asian Gang Revisited picks up the story of the Asian gang' over the subsequent two decades, examining the changing identities of the original participants as they transition into adulthood in the context of increased public and political concerns over Muslim masculinities, spanning the War on Terror, grooming gangs' and increased Islamophobia. Building on her ongoing relationships with the men over 25 years, the book explores education, employment, friendship, marriage and fatherhood, and religious identity, andTrade ReviewLike her original text published in 2000, Alexander’s approach and sensitivity toward the endeavour of research permeates this book. With rich and nuanced analysis, the reader is asked to engage with a framing of the key issues that continue to have impact on racialized groups. -- Yunis Alam, Head of Sociology and Criminology, University of Bradford, UKThis book makes an important scholarly contribution to the growing literature on British Muslim Studies. It is one of the few books to use ethnography to offer great insights into the political events surrounding the Muslim Question. And it is the only book which builds on a longitudinal study of British Muslims. -- Shamim Miah, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education and Community Studies, University of Huddersfield, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Participant Bios 1. The Context of the Study 2. Leaving School 3. Work 4. Friendship 5. Marriage and Fatherhood 6. Religion Conclusion and Updates References Index
£21.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Menswear Revolution
Book SynopsisIn recent years, menswear has moved decisively center stage. Menswear Revolution investigates the transformation of men's fashion through the lens of shifting masculinities, examining how its increasing diversity has created new ways for men to explore and express their identities. Harnessing sustained market growth and creative dynamism on the runway, ground-breaking designers from Raf Simons and Hedi Slimane to Craig Green have revolutionized the discipline with their bold re-imaginings of the male wardrobe.Analysing the role of the media in shaping attitudes to men's fashion, Menswear Revolution studies how competing narratives of masculinity are reflected in popular discourse. Taking us from the mod and peacock revolutions of the 1960s to the new wave aesthetics of the 1980s, the book explores historical precedents for today's menswear scene and looks at the evolution of the ideal' male body, from the muscular to the lean and boyish. Combining interviews with fashionTrade ReviewMcCauley Bowstead’s talent lies not only his is deft handling of an enormous quantity of material, but also in his ability to write coherently with sophistication. His work is like a bespoke suit compared to ready-to-wear. You know—and appreciate—the difference once you slip it on. Menswear Revolution is quality craftsmanship. -- Andy Reilly, University of Hawai`i, USA, Editor of Critical Studies in Men's FashionBowstead’s book is an excellent contribution to the growing menswear bookshelf. Articulating his own experiences of searching for and wearing fashions that were at the edge of acceptability, and the blurring of gender conventions in his dress, is an important facet in the success of this book, along with his ability to succinctly summarise historical precedents and theoretical perspectives. The work is sophisticated yet accessible and I, for one, would heartily recommend that this takes its place in key reading texts for students of fashion, design, history and cultural studies and academics’ Christmas wishlists. * Journal of Dress History *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1. Disciplinary Discourses · New Markets · New Men? · Hipster Hate · Performance Anxiety · Fearing Femininity · Reverse Discourse · Contested Masculinities 2. Historical Resonances · Fashion and Modernity · The Birth of Consumer Culture · The 1980s · Authenticity and Irony 3. Body Language: towards a phenomenology of masculinity · Embodied and Disembodied Masculinities: the male body in the twentieth century · The Liberated body · Holding out for a hero · The 1990s and its legacy · The Fourth Sex: Androgyny and Objectification 4. Millennial Men · Subculture, Music & Fashion · Queering Men’s Fashion · Millennial Men 5. The Shock of the New · The State of the Art: menswear since 2010 · Androgyny in Contemporary Menswear · Workers of the world unite · Athleisure · Deconstructing tailoring · The New Monasticism · The Shock of the New Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Edinburgh University Press The Victorian Male Body
Book SynopsisThe Victorian Male Body examines some of the main expressions and practices of Victorian masculinity and its embodied physicality.
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Edinburgh University Press Masculinities on Clydeside
Book SynopsisMasculinities on Clydeside' explores the experiences of civilian men on Clydeside during the war, using oral history interviews as a means to explore subjectivity and arguing for continuous personal agency through major historical changes.
£22.79
Edinburgh University Press Nine Centuries of Man
Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary collection explores a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century.
£27.54
Edinburgh University Press Anxious Men
Book SynopsisFocusing on a complex and contentious period that was formative in shaping American society and culture in the twentieth century, this book sheds new light on the ways in which fiction engaged with contemporary notions of masculinity.
£19.94
Avalon Publishing Group Boys: What It Means to Become a Man
Book SynopsisWhether they're being urged to "man up" or warned that "boys don't cry," young men are subjected to damaging messages about manliness: they must muzzle their emotions and never show weakness, dominate girls and compete with one another.Boys: What It Means to Become a Man examines how these toxic rules can hinder boys' emotional and social development. If girls can expand the borders of femaleness, could boys also be set free of limiting, damaging expectations about manhood and masculinity? Could what's been labelled "the boy crisis" be the beginning of a revolution in how we raise young men? Drawing on extensive research and interviews with educators, activists, parents, psychologists, sociologists, and young men, Giese--mother to a son herself--examines the myths of masculinity and the challenges facing boys today. She reports from boys-only sex education classes and recreational sports leagues; talks to parents of transgender children and plays video games with her son. She tells stories of boys navigating the transition into manhood and how the upheaval in cultural norms about sex, sexuality and the myths of masculinity have changed the coming of age process for today's boys. With lively reportage and clear-eyed analysis, Giese reveals that the movement for gender equality has the potential to liberate us all.
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Microcosm Publishing Manspressions: Decoding Men's Behavior
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Counterpoint The Man They Wanted Me To Be: Toxic Masculinity
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers Supporting Young Transgender Men: A Guide for
Book SynopsisThere is currently a lack of information available regarding the specific needs of young transgender men, and the barriers that they face. This can lead to professionals having to give generic advice, which may not be appropriate for the situation. Written to address this shortfall, this book provides professionals with the guidance they need to effectively and supportively work with young transgender men.It looks at some of the obstacles that trans men face across health and care services. Addressing topics such as the social impact of transitioning, the potential impact on mental health and emotional wellbeing and common myths and misconceptions about transitioning, this guide is essential for anyone working with young transgender men.Table of ContentsForeword. Terminology. 1. Introduction. 2. Gender Development in Children. 3. Social Transition. 4. Social Transition Logistics. 5. Physical Transition. 6. Surgery. 7. Strategies to overcome barriers to health care. Conclusion.
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The History Press Ltd The Manual for British Men: 120 Manly Skills from
Book SynopsisAirmen and soldiers, knights and pages, gentlemen and rogues: to you we say stiffen your lip and tighten your sword belt! Tie down your trebuchets, wax your moustache and delve into this manliest of manuals, containing everything the well-bred British man needs to know.The Manual for British Men teaches day-to-day skills such as how to besiege a castle, fire a longbow, correctly clean a Maxim machine gun and capture an enemy trench; sporting sciences such as jousting, fencing and boxing (Queensbury Rules, of course); and domestic essentials such as how to hunt, kill, clean and cook a wild boar.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Live Flesh: The Male Body in Contemporary Spanish
Book SynopsisIn post-Franco Spain, a re-shaping of notions of the masculine has been under way for some time. The authors of "Live Flesh" demonstrate how contemporary Spanish films, during this modern period, have contributed to this process. They do so by visualizing the ways in which Spanish men have been abandoning old self images and adopting new ones, and they explain and explore the complexity and diversity of these fresh cinematic creations of masculine identities. The book's point of focus is Spanish films of the democratic period, both popular and auteur, made by directors of national and international prominence, such as Pedro Almodovar, Alejandro Amenabar, Bigas Luna or Julio Medem, as well as films featuring acclaimed actors who have contributed to the construction of contemporary ideas of the masculine in their country, including Antonio Banderas and Javier Bardem. Using a fresh theoretical framework, embracing queer and feminist theory and concepts of nation, race and class, each chapter examines key films that represent the male body, highlighting notable elements - young, muscular, homosexual, (dis)abled, foreign and so on - and goes on to focus on recent case studies from the early 1990s to the present. An increasingly transnational Spanish cinema is a most promising field in which to explore questions of how male bodies are represented - and mediated - in film. "Live Flesh" more than fulfils this promise and goes further, to reveal how these representations have intervened in the Spanish cultural imagination.Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction CHAPTER 1: Stereotypical Bodies CHAPTER 2: Young Bodies CHAPTER 3: Muscular Bodies CHAPTER 4: (Dis)abled bodies CHAPTER 5: Homosexual bodies CHAPTER 6: Transformed Bodies CHAPTER 7: Foreign Bodies CHAPTER 8: The Genitals Filmography Bibliography Index
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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd The Landscape of Silence: Sexual Violence Against
Book SynopsisWhy is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all, why, throughout history, have victims, perpetrators and society as a whole refused to acknowledge this violation, and why do episodes of male-on-male rape and sexual abuse feature so rarely in accounts of war, be they official histories, eye-witness ac- counts or popular narratives? Is there more to this elision of memory than simply shame? Is there more to it than the victor's desire to violate the enemy body? Amalendu Misra's startlingly original re- search into male sexual violence explores the meaning and role of the male body prior to its abuse and how it is altered by violation in war- time. He examines the bio-political contexts of conflict in which primarily men and occasion- ally women sexually violate men; he details the inadequate legal safeguards for survivors of such events; and in unearthing and analysing an ignored aspect of war, he inquires whether such violence can ever be deterred.Trade Review'Sexual violence against boys and men in times of armed conflict has too often been ignored or relegated to a dismissive footnote. Misra's book changes everything. The effect of his vivid and forensic exploration of male-on-male sexual violence is stunning. This is a "must read" for anyone interested in rape, sexuality, violence and the vulnerable body.' -- Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and author of Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present;'Landscapes of Silence is excellent. Lucid and theoretically rich, and drawing on evidence that spans historical, cultural and geographical space, the book is the first extended analysis of the rape of men in war. An important contribution to the literature of critical security studies, Misra's book should be essential reading for any student or practitioner of war.' * Karin Fierke, Professor of International Relations, St Andrews University, and author of Political Self Sacrifice: Agency, Body and Emotion in International Relations *
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AK Press Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of
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Aurora Metro Publications Broken Lad
Book SynopsisAbove a pub in North London, Phil is drinking and fighting off mild panic about his comeback gig. His manager's already dumped him and he's worried about finding a place to stay for the night too. As he laments his dwindling career, his supporters gather to wish him well. Craving success and celebrity too, Josh suspects his father of behaving very badly. With the time of the performance fast approaching, guilty secrets emerge that split the family wide apart. Tonight, Phil's career might not be the only thing in tatters. Comic and moving, Broken Lad is a subtle examination of masculinity in distress.Trade Review"The most powerful element of Hooper's script is looking at how a life of disappointment is compounded by one's peers doing well. A lot of Phil's bitterness comes because his contemporaries broke into television and earned enough to have comfortable lives." - Reviews Hub; "It is important to show a huge demographic of the British public (fifty-something white men, but not those running things) on the stage and we get a glimpse of their ugly self-pity and the loneliness that provokes it..." - Broadway World; 'Set in the upstairs of a traditional English pub, the play is an analytical living room drama: different friends and family members of Phil dip in and out of dialogue with him and each other. It all begins playfully with an affable and cultivated relationship between a comedian and his gay friend, only to demonstrate as the drama continues how very un-jovial this is in actuality. As the play develops, we see the consequences of a man slowly unravelling, and the cracks of a dysfunctional family starting to show.' - Everything Theatre; 'Comic and moving, Broken Lad is a subtle examination of masculinity and virility in distress.' - London Theatre;
£9.99
Frommann-Holzboog Queer(es) Denken in Der Psychoanalyse: Eine
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The University of Chicago Press When We Imagine Grace Black Men and Subject
Book SynopsisSimone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection from these very same systems systems dead set on the static, homogenous representations of black masculinity perpetuated in the media and our cultural discourse. In When We Imagine Grace, Drake borrows from Toni Morrison's Beloved to bring imagination to the center of black masculinity studies allowing individual black men to exempt themselves and their fates from a hateful, ignorant society and open themselves up as active agents at the center of their own stories. Against a backdrop of crisis, Drake brings forth the narratives of black men who have imagined grace for themselves. We meet African American cowboy, Nat Love, and Drake's own grandfather, who served in the first black military
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The University of Chicago Press When We Imagine Grace Black Men and Subject
Book SynopsisSimone C. Drake spent the first several decades of her life learning how to love and protect herself, a black woman, from the systems designed to facilitate her harm and marginalization. But when she gave birth to the first of her three sons, she quickly learned that black boys would need protection from these very same systems systems dead set on the static, homogenous representations of black masculinity perpetuated in the media and our cultural discourse. In When We Imagine Grace, Drake borrows from Toni Morrison's Beloved to bring imagination to the center of black masculinity studies allowing individual black men to exempt themselves and their fates from a hateful, ignorant society and open themselves up as active agents at the center of their own stories. Against a backdrop of crisis, Drake brings forth the narratives of black men who have imagined grace for themselves. We meet African American cowboy, Nat Love, and Drake's own grandfather, who served in the first black military
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The University of Chicago Press Of War and Men World War II in the Lives of
Book SynopsisDigs deep into the terrain of fatherhood. This title explores the nature and aftereffects of combat, the culture of fear during the Cold War, the ways that fear altered the lives of racial and sexual minorities, and how the civil rights movement affected families both black and white.Trade Review"By tracing the variety of ways that men from diverse class and racial backgrounds endeavored to reconcile the competing demands of family, work, and nation in mid-twentieth-century America, LaRossa dismantles the myth that 1950s fathers were distant and uninvolved. Equally as important, he locates the roots of today's conundrums in the contradictory social context that emerged following World War II and still expects men to be both tough and caring. Of War and Men offers a fascinating, insightful, and original contribution to the study of the culture and practice of fatherhood."-Kathleen Gerson, New York University "No one has written more thoughtfully or insightfully about fatherhood and spousal relationships than LaRossa. A rare breed, he is a sociologist with the sensibility and research acumen of a skilled historian. Highly attentive to class, ethnicity, race, and social context, he has, over the course of an influential career, drawn a crucial distinction between the cultural ideals and the everyday realities of fatherhood. In Of War and Men he rejects the view that fifties fathers were deplorable dads-aloof, detached, and disconnected-and instead shows the profound changes fatherhood underwent throughout the era, laying bare the poignancy and complexities of the lives of the baby boomers' fathers."-Steven Mintz, Columbia University "LaRossa's analysis of the meaning of fatherhood in American culture from 1941 to 1960 will enlighten, challenge, and transform your thinking about the role of fathers in this key historical moment. Skillfully integrating historical examples with an analysis of cultural trends, he suggests that we expand our conception of fatherhood. The book is filled with fascinating examples and is particularly strong in its discussion of the actions of fathers in the Civil Rights movement. The leading cultural sociologist of fatherhood in the country, LaRossa has written an illuminating account that will be of interest to a wide readership."-Annette Lareau, University of Pennsylvania "I cannot praise this wonderful book highly enough. Meticulously researched, extraordinarily original, thought-provoking, and often moving, it could not be more resonant and timely. Of War and Men adds greatly to our understanding not just of the history of fatherhood, complementing the author's internationally known work in the area, but also of the complexity of fathers' contemporary experiences and family practices. The discussion is compelling and in challenging ways of thinking about fathers and how we read the past it is a milestone in research on fatherhood. This book deserves to be read generally, by all generations-it is a work from which we can learn not only about the past but also about our present and our future."-Richard Collier, Newcastle University "LaRossa brings to life the experiences of fathers during and after World War II. Drawing on poignant and powerful stories of men and their families affected by racial oppression, the traumas of war, and the struggles to conform to increasingly 'traditional' ideas of fatherhood, LaRossa goes beyond the myths of distant postwar fathers to reveal men who loved their children and did their best to care for them."-Elaine Tyler May, University of Minnesota"
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