Gender studies: men and boys Books
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"
£33.25
The University of Chicago Press The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
Book SynopsisExamines the social and cultural significance of masculinity during the generations born between the Black Death and Protestant Reformation. This title discovers that social relations between men, founded on the ideals of honesty and self-restraint, were at least as important as their domination and control of women in defining their identities.Trade Review"A splendid study of the complexities of being a man in late medieval England. Neal's vision of masculine subjectivity and identity is by far the most sophisticated, nuanced, and deep available on this period and will find a place on the must-read list of every historian of men and masculinity as well as sex and gender more broadly." - Jacqueline Murray, University of Guelph"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain
Book SynopsisA heavily illustrated history of two centuries of male beauty in British culture. Spanning the decades from the rise of photography to the age of the selfie, this book traces the complex visual and consumer cultures that shaped masculine beauty in Britain, examining the realms of advertising, health, pornography, psychology, sport, and celebrity culture. Paul R. Deslandes chronicles the shifting standards of male beauty in British culturefrom the rising cult of the athlete to changing views on hairlessnesswhile connecting discussions of youth, fitness, and beauty to growing concerns about race, empire, and degeneracy. From earlier beauty show contestants and youth-obsessed artists, the book moves through the decades into considerations of disfigured soldiers, physique models, body-conscious gay men, and celebrities such as David Beckham and David Gandy who populate the worlds of television and social media. Deslandes calls on historians to take beauty and gendered aesthetics seriTrade Review"The American historian Deslandes has identified ‘a distinctively British culture of male beauty’ that stretches back two centuries, and he explores this in his wide-ranging and well-illustrated book. . . . both welcome and genuinely illuminating." * Literary Review *"[The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain] is a straightforward history of the way images of male beauty were promulgated in England from the early 1800s to the present, and its strength comes primarily from the photographs, reproductions of advertisements, cartoons from Punch, and other memorabilia Deslandes has been studying and collecting over the years. Above all, it's the photographs. The pictures here really are worth a thousand words." * Gay and Lesbian Review *"In this illustrated volume, historian Deslandes traces the history of two centuries of male beauty in British culture, unpacking high and popular culture's influence on male beauty standards. The book moves across different male figures from disfigured soldiers, physique models, gay men, and celebrities like David Beckham, and explore the connection between beauty, race, youth, empire and degeneration." * DNA Magazine *"This is a thoroughly researched, clearly written study of how the male visage and the male body has been promoted and received by straight, queer, male, and female eyes over two centuries, with special attention to grooming. Bolstering his thesis with 105 well-chosen figures and 16 color plates, Deslandes contributes a uniquely valuable interpretation of imperial, racial,consumerist, and sexual themes in modern British culture. He examines the creation and public evolution of British male identity and its 20th-century centering in celebrity culture, paying special attention to Rupert Brooke and David Beckham. The author’s discovery and use of previously unknown historical materials is amazing and surprising. With such new and instructive material, this volume deserves the notice of all modern cultural historians. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Meticulously researched and richly illustrated. . . [this] book does an admirable job of shedding light on the rich and varied visual culture that since the nineteenth century has had the beautiful male face and body at its center—hairstyles, clothes, physiques, and their meanings may have changed, but beauty, it seems, remained something to be displayed, consumed, collected, and judged, as well as admired." * American Historical Review *"This engaging, readable book opens up a rich field of inquiry that will hopefully feed into a revitalized, more expansive approach to masculinity studies in modern British history." * Cultural and Social History *“With a keen eye toward race, gender, and sexuality, Deslandes takes us on a journey across intellectual and health cultures, modes of representation, and the emergence of modern selfhood to chronicle male beauty in Britain across two centuries. In this meticulously researched and richly illustrated book, Deslandes not only chronicles beauty, he has produced it. This is, simply, a gorgeous book.” -- Sharrona Pearl, author of Face/On: Face Transplants and the Ethics of the Other“A wonderful and much-anticipated book. Deslandes draws on a wealth of materials, many of which will be new even to expert readers. Taking on the concept of beauty in relationship to masculinity, and doing so over an impressively long period, Deslandes reveals how beauty was central to fashioning the modern self and that British culture was particularly preoccupied with masculine forms of attractiveness.” -- Nadja Durbach, author of Many Mouths: The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State“Deslandes skillfully unveils the aesthetic history of British masculinity that has been hiding, as it were, in plain sight. He dispels the common myth that beauty is a historically feminine quality, and vividly demonstrates how ideals of male attractiveness have long mattered in shaping values, identity, sexuality, and social status.” -- Christopher R. Oldstone-Moore, author of Of Beards and Men: The Revealing History of Facial Hair“The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain is an extraordinary work of archival recovery and an important intervention across the histories of masculinities and sexualities, bodies and subjectivities, and mass culture and consumerism in Britain and beyond. Working at the cutting edge of recent work in histories of masculinity, Deslandes insists that we understand masculinity as an aesthetic category as much as a question of experience, culture, or performance. In making this case, he draws upon an astonishing and compelling array of print and material culture, ephemera, and personal testimonies. His stories of hairdressers and male models, pornographers, and ordinary British men will delight, challenge, and often surprise readers.” -- Matt Houlbrook, author of Prince of Tricksters: The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman CrookTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part One Setting the Stage: The Foundations of Modern Male Beauty Chapter 1 Physiognomists and Photographers Chapter 2 Beauty Experts and Hairdressing Entrepreneurs Chapter 3 Artists, Athletes, and Celebrities Chapter 4 Poets, Soldiers, and Monuments Part Two Men on Display in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Chapter 5 Brylcreem Men, Cinema Idols, and Uniforms Chapter 6 Teenagers, Bodybuilders, and Models Chapter 7 Youthful Rebels, Gender-Benders, and Gay Men Chapter 8 Insecure Men, Metrosexuals, and Spornosexuals Epilogue Acknowledgments Archival Collections Consulted Notes Index
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The Cassowarys Revenge The Life Death of
Book SynopsisDonald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. Years later he returned to find that the village's men had voluntarily destroyed their secret cult which allowed them dominance over women. This study examines the labyrinth of motives behind this improbable, devastating act.
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The University of Chicago Press Of Maybugs and Men A History and Philosophy of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Prejudice against those who identify as LGBT is ongoing in our culture. This makes the magnificently comprehensive and thoughtful Of Maybugs and Men: A History and Philosophy of the Sciences of Homosexuality a work of pressing contemporary relevance. Covering a wide range of topics, from the questions of homosexuality in animals and of evolutionary perspectives on homosexuality, to the philosophical and social implications of judging any kind of sexuality as healthy or otherwise, indeed of even asking such questions, it is essential reading: for researchers, for those making and enforcing social policy, and more widely for all who think we should strive to understand the nature of ourselves, human beings. A very important book.” -- Michael Ruse, author of Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know"Against a long backdrop of simplistic discussions of the etiology of homosexuality, Of Maybugs and Men is a breath of fresh air. Pieter Adriaens and Andreas De Block explore not only the science of sexual orientation but also the indispensable value judgments that permeate empirical investigation. A must-read for anyone working on these topics—indeed, for anyone interested in how to approach history, science, and sexuality with rigor and nuance." -- John Corvino, author of What’s Wrong with Homosexuality?"With contemporary attitudes and concepts around gender, sex, and sexual orientation evolving at a breakneck pace, it can be hard to find one's footing or coherently navigate through the ever-changing—highly politicized—discourse. Helpfully, Adriaens and De Block have taken on the subject of same-sex sexual orientation from an interdisciplinary perspective: they draw on history, philosophy, and sociology of science, among other disciplines, to provide a much-needed, rich and illuminating frame of reference that will inform and challenge even the most seasoned scholars of sex and sexual orientation. At the same time, beginners will appreciate their clear, fresh writing tethered to many concrete examples and illustrations. Their book is a delight to read and marks an important contribution to our understanding of who we are as sexual beings." -- Brian D. Earp, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality"Adriaens and De Block present an incisive review of research into male homosexuality from a philosophical perspective. They carefully dissect the meanings of terms that researchers often employ without a great deal of thought. Their ideas about the evolution of homosexuality are especially illuminating." -- Simon LeVay, author of Gay, Straight, and the Reason WhyTable of ContentsIntroduction: Thinking about Science and Homosexuality 1. Not by Genes and Hormones Alone: On Homosexuality and Innateness 2. Sham Matings and Other Shenanigans: On Animal Homosexuality 3. Beyond the Paradox: On Homosexuality and Evolutionary Theory 4. Values, Facts, and Disorders: On Homosexuality and Psychiatry Epilogue: Gaydars and the Dangers of Research on Sexual Orientation Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£24.70
The University of Chicago Press Queer Objects to the Rescue
Book SynopsisExamines forms of intimate citizenship that have emerged in relation to growing anti-homosexual violence in Kenya. Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countries of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the homosexual threat they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible, leaders, media, and civil society groups have deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya, for example, bead necklaces, plastics, and even diapers have come to represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially virile construction of national masculinity. In Queer Objects tothe Rescue, George Paul Meiu explores objects that have played an important and surprising role in both state-led and popular attempts to rid Kenya of various imagined threats to intimate life. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has been crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a targeTrade Review“Queer Objects to the Rescue is brilliantly written, and it provides us with a resilient scaffolding for theorizing queer valance in Africa.” * S. N. Nyeck, University of Colorado Boulder *“This sophisticated critical study of queerness, objecthood, and subjecthood offers novel approaches and languages for scholarly engagement with identities situated in social, cultural, and economic politics, histories of inclusion and exclusion, and complex fabrications of (intimate) citizenships.” * Besi Muhonja, James Madison University *“Filled with smart arguments and clean-edged prose, Queer Objects to the Rescue makes a signature contribution to the literature on non-normative sexualities in Africa. It maps out novel terrain for semiotic and new materialism theory, as well as for queer and African studies, and it richly unsettles simplistic accounts of homophobia and citizenship in Kenya today.” * Charles Piot, Duke University *Table of Contents1 Queer Objects: Introduction 2 Intimate Rescue: Grammars, Logics, Subjects, Scenes 3 “Male-Power”: Virility, Vitality, and Phallic Rescue 4 Bead Necklaces: Encompassment and the Geometrics of Citizenship 5 Plastics: Moral Pollution and the Matter of Belonging 6 Diapers: Intimate Exposures and the Underlayers of Citizenship 7 The Homosexual Body: Gayism and the Ambiguous Objects of Terror Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Queer Objects to the Rescue
Book SynopsisExamines forms of intimate citizenship that have emerged in relation to growing anti-homosexual violence in Kenya. Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countries of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the homosexual threat they claim to be addressing is not always easy to identify. To make that threat visible, leaders, media, and civil society groups have deployed certain objects as signifiers of queerness. In Kenya, for example, bead necklaces, plastics, and even diapers have come to represent the danger posed by homosexual behavior to an essentially virile construction of national masculinity. In Queer Objects tothe Rescue, George Paul Meiu explores objects that have played an important and surprising role in both state-led and popular attempts to rid Kenya of various imagined threats to intimate life. Meiu shows that their use in the political imaginary has been crucial to representing the homosexual body as a societal threat and as a targeTrade Review“Queer Objects to the Rescue is brilliantly written, and it provides us with a resilient scaffolding for theorizing queer valance in Africa.” * S. N. Nyeck, University of Colorado Boulder *“This sophisticated critical study of queerness, objecthood, and subjecthood offers novel approaches and languages for scholarly engagement with identities situated in social, cultural, and economic politics, histories of inclusion and exclusion, and complex fabrications of (intimate) citizenships.” * Besi Muhonja, James Madison University *“Filled with smart arguments and clean-edged prose, Queer Objects to the Rescue makes a signature contribution to the literature on non-normative sexualities in Africa. It maps out novel terrain for semiotic and new materialism theory, as well as for queer and African studies, and it richly unsettles simplistic accounts of homophobia and citizenship in Kenya today.” * Charles Piot, Duke University *Table of Contents1 Queer Objects: Introduction 2 Intimate Rescue: Grammars, Logics, Subjects, Scenes 3 “Male-Power”: Virility, Vitality, and Phallic Rescue 4 Bead Necklaces: Encompassment and the Geometrics of Citizenship 5 Plastics: Moral Pollution and the Matter of Belonging 6 Diapers: Intimate Exposures and the Underlayers of Citizenship 7 The Homosexual Body: Gayism and the Ambiguous Objects of Terror Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References Index
£22.00
The University of Chicago Press Soft Patriarchs New Men How Christianity Shapes
Book SynopsisWilcox looks at both mainline and evangelical Protestant teachings since the 1950s and argues that there are perceivable differences between the attitudes of fathers and husbands, according to which sect they follow.
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McGill-Queen's University Press Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance
Book SynopsisA comprehensive and nuanced analysis of how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English Renaissance literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.Trade Review"Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature uncovers a surprising nuance in the Renaissance construction of masculinity -- namely, that it is precisely the destabilization of manhood in Ovid that Renaissance writers use to mitigate their own anxieties about gender categories. This impressive collection of engaging essays by leading scholars sheds light on under-appreciated aspects of the Metamorphoses and on English Renaissance constructions of gender." Joseph Ortiz, University of Texas at El Paso“The essays handle the perennial balancing act between scholarly groundwork and literary analysis well. The editors disclaim comprehensiveness, but the twelve studies they have gathered and framed between their energizing introduction and Enterline’s envoy do fine justice to the myriad and protean representations of masculinity engendered by Ovid’s works in the English Renaissance.” Renaissance Quarterly"With impressive range and unfailing brilliance, Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature challenges such ‘straight,’ unitary, and essentialized views of masculinity in the Ovidian corpus and in the wide range of Renaissance texts inspired by him." Renaissance and Reformation"By presenting different perspectives, Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature offers a multifaced and complex account of a kind of masculinity that is as metamorphic as Ovid’s most influential poem, but that so far has received considerably less scholarly attention." Renaissance Studies
£63.00
John Wiley & Sons Maurice
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McGill-Queen's University Press Maurice
Book SynopsisMaurice (1987), a British film based on the novel by E.M. Forster, follows an Edwardian man’s journey to self-acceptance as someone who loves and desires men. Rebutting its critical reception, this volume champions the film as a sympathetic adaptation, making a case for its underappreciated positive depiction of gay love.Trade Review“The writing is the greatest joy of this book – in its daring and originality, its clarity and avoidance of academic stuffiness, its freshness and nimble erudition, Greven's Maurice is witty, deeply moving, superbly literate, and erotically tactile, like the movie he praises. In naming Merchant Ivory's Maurice a classic, Greven has created a classic of his own. Long may it be read.” Will Aitken, author of Death in Venice: A Queer Film Classic“Greven succeeds in restoring Maurice to an honored place among significant movies that feature a gay protagonist. The concluding chapter is sophisticated yet accessible to a broad audience. Greven writes with a clarity that will likely appeal to general audiences and film scholars alike.” Library Journal"Maurice is placed by media professor David Greven in a tradition of melancholy and lyrical gay films exemplified by Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, and later Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. Greven … makes clear in an autobiographical note that Maurice had a tremendous effect on people like himself: lonely gay men who were still closeted when they saw it.” Gay & Lesbian Review
£999.99
Columbia University Press Masculine Interests Homoerotics in Hollywood
Book SynopsisThis title considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. It also examines how Hollywood has both reflected and helped to shape the concept of masculinity.Trade ReviewArticulates the big screen's dedication to eroticism between men, especially in movies that now belong to the film canon. Gay & Lesbian ReviewTable of ContentsPreface 1. Masculine Interests 2. Oedipus in Africa: The Lion King 3. To "Have Known Ecstasy": Hunting Men in The Most Dangerous Game 4, Friendship and Its Discontents: The Outlaw 5. Looking for the "Great Whatsit": Kiss Me Deadly and Film Noir 6. Midnight Cowboy's Backstory 7. Innerspace: A Spectacular Voyage to the Heart of Identity 8. Batman and Robin: A Family Romance 9. My Own Private Idaho and the New Queer Road Movies 10. "The Things We Think and Do Not Say": Jerry Maguire and the Business of Personal Relationships Concerning Happiness: An Afterword Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
Columbia University Press Social Work Practice with Men at Risk
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewFurman's text is well written and an important contribution to social work education and practice. -- Robert G. Blundo Families in Society An excellent book on men and clinical practice. -- J. Christopher Hall Men and MasculinitiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Introduction Part I: Understanding the Worlds of Men 2. Men's Psychosocial Health in a Global Era 3. Conceptions of Masculinity and the Development of Men 4. The Relationships of Men 5. Theoretical and Practice Guidelines Part II: Men at Risk: Problems and Solutions 6. Men and Violence 7. Workers at Risk 8. Warriors at Risk 9. The Physical Health of Men 10. Men and Mental Illness 11. Older Men at Risk 12. Diverse Men at Risk 13. Men, Compulsive Disorders, and Addictions 14. Conclusion: What Is Right About Men? Appendix: Resources References Index
£28.80
Columbia University Press A History of Virility
Book SynopsisHow has the meaning of manhood changed over time? A History of Virility proposes a series of answers to this question by describing a trajectory that begins with ancient conceptions of male domination and privilege and examining how it persisted, with significant alterations, for centuries. While the mainstream of virility was challenged during the Enlightenment, its preeminence was restored by social forms of male bonding in the nineteenth century. Pacifist, feminist, and gay rights movements chipped away at models and codes of virility during the next hundred years, leading to the twentieth century's disclosing of a virility on edge, or virility as an unstable entity dispossessed of any automatic claim to power. These original essays, written by an international group of scholars including Arlette Farge, Jean-Paul Bertaud, Christelle Taraud, and Fabrice Virgili, add an intriguing sociohistorical dimension to our understanding of the evolution of virility. Unsettling received notioTrade ReviewAn innovative contribution to the cultural history of gender, with literature as a central element, A History of Virility provides a complete and coherent sense of the trajectory of French notions of virility from and across all periods. Readers interested in masculinity or gender more broadly will read with great interest. -- Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburgh A sweeping history of masculinity in the tradition of Aries and Duby's A History of Private Life that complements and enriches English-language perspectives on gender and sexuality. -- Lewis Seifert, Brown University Highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsTranslator's Note Preface 1. Greek Virilities, by Maurice Sartre 2. Roman Virilities: Vir, Virilitas, Virtus, by Jean-Paul Thuillier 3. Barbarian and Knight The Barbarian World: Hybridity and Transformation of Virility, by Bruno Dumezil The Medieval: Strength and Blood, by Claude Thomasset 4. Absolute Virility in the Early Modern World Modern Virility: Convictions and Questionings, by Georges Vigarello Virility and Its "Others": The Representation of Paradoxical Masculinity, by Lawrence D. Kritzman Examples from Painting, by Nadeije Laneyrie-Dagen 5. The Virile Man and the Savage in the Lands of Exploration, by Georges Vigarello 6. Uneasy Virility in the Age of Enlightenment Common Folks' Virility, by Arlette Farge Men of Fiction, by Michel Delon 7. The Code of Virility: Inculcation The Triumph of Virility in the Nineteenth Century, by Alain Corbin Childhood, or the "Journey Toward Virility," by Ivan Jablonka 8. The Duel and the Defense of Virile Honor, by Francois Guillet 9. The Necessary Manifestation of Sexual Energy, by Alain Corbin 10. Military Virility, by Jean-Paul Bertaud 11. Virility in the Colonial Context, from the Late Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, by Christelle Taraud 12. The Burden of Virility The Injunction of Virility, Source of Anguish and Anxiety, by Alain Corbin Homosexuality and Virility, by Regis Revenin 13. The Great War and the History of Virility, by Stephane Andoin Rouzeau 14. Origins and Transformations of Male Domination Impossible Virility, by Jean-Jacques Courtine Anthropology of Virility: The Fear of Powerlessness, by Claudine Haroche 15. Virilities on Edge, Violent Virilities, by Fabrice Virgili 16. Virility Through the Looking Glass of Women, by Christine Bard 17. "One Is Not Born Virile, One Becomes So," by Arnaud Bauberot 18. Fascist Virility, by Johann Chapoutot 19. Working-Class Virility, by Thierry Pillon 20. Homosexual Transformations, by Florence Tamagne 21. Exhibitions: Virility Stripped Bare, by Bruno Nassim Aboudar 22. Brawn in Civilization: Virile Myth and Muscular Power, by Jean-Jacques Courtine Notes Index
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Columbia University Press Fathering from the Margins
Book SynopsisAasha M. Abdill draws on fieldwork in Bedford-Stuyvesant to dispel stereotypes of black men as deadbeat dads. She presents qualitative and quantitative evidence of black fathers' presence and shows how supporting black men in their quest to be—and be seen as—family men is key to securing not only their children's well-being but also their own.Trade ReviewHas involved fatherhood among low-income men existed all along with no public recognition, or is such parenting increasing through changing social norms and cultural forms? The answer is not exclusively one or the other. In exploring this question, Aasha M. Abdill has written a beautiful and honest ethnography of low-income black fathers in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant community that neither romanticizes nor pathologizes them. She traces the strategies fathers use to fulfill societal expectations of provision and caretaking and to reconcile the 'cool pose' with warm parent-child interactions. Through her keen observations and interviews with fathers, teachers, mothers, and grandmothers, Abdill handily illustrates how fatherhood is a collective enterprise that by its public practice generates more of the same. -- Roberta Coles, author of The Myth of the Missing Black FatherTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Misunderstood: The Significance of Race and Place in Understanding Black Fatherhood2. Men with Children: The Changing Landscape of Urban Fatherhood3. In and Out: The Poses and Performances of Black Fathers4. Something Between All and Nothing: Strategies for Keeping Hold of Family5. The Black Maternal Garden: Maternal Gatekeeping in the Context of Grandmothers and Community Mothers6. A Woman’s World: Finding a Place in the Matriarchal Urban Village7. Conclusion: Black Men as Family MenAppendix: A Reflection on MethodsNotesReferencesIndex
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University of Illinois Press Manhood on the Line
Book SynopsisStephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one''s dignity while doing hard work in hard world. Trade ReviewBook of the Year, International Labor History Association, 2016 "Richly detailed. . . . The strength of Manhood on the Line is its unvarnished examination of the power of masculinity."--The Annals of Iowa"Meyer has produced an important work—a readable, revealing, well-researched, insightful piece of history."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Manhood on the Line does an excellent job, helping the reader to understand the importance of the emergence of white working-class masculinity in the automotive factory through an examination of the complex relations between labor, race, and gender, during the twentieth century."--Men and Masculinities"A well-reasoned, thoroughly researched history that makes an important contribution to masculinity and gender studies, the sociology of work, labor history, and industrial relations. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"An incredibly rich social history."--The Michigan Historical Review"In the scholarly study of masculinity, the history of working class masculinity has often been neglected in favor of more accessible middle-class men's stories. Stephen Meyer's book is a valuable . . . contribution to the work being done to rectify this omission."--Kansas History"A richly textured, highly readable study, which should have a significant impact on the writing of a more complicated history of the working class in all advanced capitalist societies."--Labour"A landmark of twentieth-century U.S. history. The research is extraordinary; the argument compelling. It is about our century and nation, and the many blue-collar men who worked in lousy, tough jobs and figured out ways to make a living, and also remain a man."--Roger Horowitz, author of Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, and Transformation "This important and thoughtful book should remove any remaining doubts about the significance of creating a men's history that takes gender seriously."--Ava Baron, author of Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor "Represents a kind of coming of age for labor history after decades of exciting scholarship. Attentive to the power of gender and race in shaping working-class experience, it navigates the difficult terrain between the rough and respectable cultures of working-class men in the auto industry. It's also a terrific read. A master craftsman of working class history, Meyer compellingly shows us how automation, economic crisis, and the presence of women and African American workers reshaped the shop floor and working-class white men’s identity and politics. Finally, Manhood on the Line addresses the difficult questions of sexual harassment and racism in the industrial heartland and illuminates the social worlds of white and black working-class men and women in the twentieth century."--Elizabeth Faue, author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945 "In both argument and evidence, Manhood on the Line is among the richest studies of U.S. working class history. Meyer explores the intersections of gender and class with great clarity and subtlety."--David Roediger, author Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
£77.35
University of Illinois Press Transmen and FTMs
Book SynopsisPresents an examination of what it means to be a female-bodied trans person. This book allows female-to-male transsexuals to speak for themselves and reveal aspects of female gender diversity that do not fit into the ready-made categories of male and female.Trade ReviewADVANCE PRAISE "This book provides wonderful documentation of transmen's lives and voices as well as an excellent critique of a number of discourses that marginalize, pathologize, and otherwise make transmen invisible." - Evelyn Blackwood, coeditor of Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures
£18.89
University of Illinois Press Manhood on the Line
Book SynopsisStephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen pleasures, the battles on the street and in the soul, and a masculinity that expressed itself in violence and sexism but also as a wellspring of the fortitude necessary to maintain one''s dignity while doing hard work in hard world. Trade ReviewBook of the Year, International Labor History Association, 2016 "Richly detailed. . . . The strength of Manhood on the Line is its unvarnished examination of the power of masculinity."--The Annals of Iowa"Meyer has produced an important work—a readable, revealing, well-researched, insightful piece of history."--Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society"Manhood on the Line does an excellent job, helping the reader to understand the importance of the emergence of white working-class masculinity in the automotive factory through an examination of the complex relations between labor, race, and gender, during the twentieth century."--Men and Masculinities"A well-reasoned, thoroughly researched history that makes an important contribution to masculinity and gender studies, the sociology of work, labor history, and industrial relations. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"An incredibly rich social history."--The Michigan Historical Review"In the scholarly study of masculinity, the history of working class masculinity has often been neglected in favor of more accessible middle-class men's stories. Stephen Meyer's book is a valuable . . . contribution to the work being done to rectify this omission."--Kansas History"A richly textured, highly readable study, which should have a significant impact on the writing of a more complicated history of the working class in all advanced capitalist societies."--Labour"A landmark of twentieth-century U.S. history. The research is extraordinary; the argument compelling. It is about our century and nation, and the many blue-collar men who worked in lousy, tough jobs and figured out ways to make a living, and also remain a man."--Roger Horowitz, author of Putting Meat on the American Table: Taste, Technology, and Transformation "This important and thoughtful book should remove any remaining doubts about the significance of creating a men's history that takes gender seriously."--Ava Baron, author of Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor "Represents a kind of coming of age for labor history after decades of exciting scholarship. Attentive to the power of gender and race in shaping working-class experience, it navigates the difficult terrain between the rough and respectable cultures of working-class men in the auto industry. It's also a terrific read. A master craftsman of working class history, Meyer compellingly shows us how automation, economic crisis, and the presence of women and African American workers reshaped the shop floor and working-class white men’s identity and politics. Finally, Manhood on the Line addresses the difficult questions of sexual harassment and racism in the industrial heartland and illuminates the social worlds of white and black working-class men and women in the twentieth century."--Elizabeth Faue, author of Community of Suffering and Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915–1945 "In both argument and evidence, Manhood on the Line is among the richest studies of U.S. working class history. Meyer explores the intersections of gender and class with great clarity and subtlety."--David Roediger, author Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All
£19.79
Indiana University Press Marrying Out
Book SynopsisWhen American Jewish men intermarry, goes the common assumption, they and their families are "lost" to the Jewish religion. The author shows that it is not necessarily so. She looks at intermarriage and parenthood through the eyes of a post-World War II cohort of Jewish men and discovers what intermarriage has meant to them and their families.Trade ReviewIn Marrying Out . . . historian Keren R. McGinity uses qualitative research to dismantle assumptions about the lives and attitudes of intermarried Jewish men. * Journal of Jewish Identities *McGinity, a groundbreaking scholar, captures the telling details and the idiosyncratic trajectory of interfaith relationships and marriages in America. But as academic as McGinity's work is, it is also highly personal. * The Forward *[A] fresh and lucid look at intermarriage . . .McGinity integrates her findings with an impressive command of the social and historical research on intermarriage, making this book an important analysis of this thorny issue. . . .filled with vivid vignettes about intermarried couples. * Jewish Book World *In Marrying Out . . . historian Keren R. McGinity uses qualitative research to dismantle assumptions about the lives and attitudes of intermarried Jewish men. * Journal of Jewish Identities *[P]rovides a penetrative analysis of how Jewish men are not 'lost' to Jewish communities but rather shape their own identities as Jewish husbands and fathers. * Marginalia *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Of Mice and Menschen1. Professional Men2. Sex and Money3. Shiksappeal4. Heartbreak KidConclusionNotesSuggested ReadingIndex About the Author
£19.79
Indiana University Press Tropical Cowboys Westerns Violence and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIts approach in terms of poverty and unemployment combined with a subtle interest in performance and the creation of an original culture makes this book an eye-opener. Both the dramatic subject and the author's vivid style make it a pleasure to read and also food for thought regarding issues that haunt not only Africa but also the world at large. * American Historical Review *In conclusion, both undergraduate and graduate students of African history, urban history, women's sexuality, gender studies, and even transnational film studies would benefit from this book. . . . Additionally, as the provocative title suggests, American undergraduate students—even those unfamiliar or new to Central African literatures—will find this book both engaging and accessible because of parallels and differences drawn between the American Far West and Kinshasa. * Research in African Literatures *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I. Falling Men1. "Big Men"2. A Colonial Cronos3. Missionary InterventionsPart II. Man Up!4. Tropical Cowboys5. Performing Masculinities6. Protectors and PredatorsPart III. Metamorphoses7. Pere Buffalo8. AvatarsGlossaryNotesBibliographyIndex
£56.10
Indiana University Press Tradition in the Frame
Book SynopsisSfakians on the island of Crete are known for their distinctive dress and appearance, fierce ruggedness, and devotion to traditional ways. Konstantinos Kalantzis explores how Sfakians live with the burdens and pleasures of maintaining these expectations of exoticism for themselves, for their fellow Greeks, and for tourists. Sfakian performance of masculine tradition has become even more meaningful for Greeks looking to reimagine their nation's global standing in the wake of stringent financial regulation, and for non-Greek tourists yearning for rootedness and escape from the post-industrial north. Through fine-grained ethnography that pays special attention to photography, Tradition in the Frame explores the ambivalence of a society expected to conform to outsiders' perception of the traditional even as it strives to enact its own vision of tradition. From the bodily reenactment of historical photographs to the unpredictable, emotionally-charged uses of postcards and commercial labels,Trade ReviewIn this original, beautifully written, and often moving monograph, Konstantinos Kalantzis has produced a lasting contribution to the anthropological study of contemporary Europe. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Tradition in the Frame explores with exquisite detail a number of timely themes—the social life of photographs, conflicting tourist and local images of Crete, the performance of gender stereotypes, and the complex tension between tradition and modernity. The author's ability to view the world through the eyes of natives and foreigners, and to deconstruct visual signs and symbols, is nothing short of stunning. For anyone interested in Europe and the Mediterranean world today, this richly documented and theoretically sophisticated volume is a must read. -- Stanley BrandesThis rich account, of empirical depth and theoretical elegance, gives us a fine-grained and nuanced exploration of the work of photographs in a Cretan community. Focusing on the temporal and spatial practices of photography, it gives a cogent account of the visual culture through which questions of identity, historical imagination, nostalgia, and constructions and performances of tradition are negotiated by 'insider Sfakians'' and 'outsiders'. In demonstrating the significance of the humble snapshot, postcard and poster within networks of cultural negotiation, this book provides an exemplary case study of the value of the visual as a prism through which to consider broader questions. Bringing together, as it does, questions of centre and periphery in relation to nation, to tourism and to contemporary politics, it is in the very best traditions of both ethnographies of Europe and of visual anthropology. -- Elizabeth EdwardsTradition in the Frame is a richly innovative ethnography focusing on the visual dimensions of modern Cretan mythmaking, and especially on the material reproduction and negotiation of time-honored stereotypes of warrior masculinity. Writing of a society that has largely shifted its economy from shepherding to tourism, Kalantzis incisively demonstrates how the realities of commercial exploitation and socio-political change re-frame familiar images of a society at once proudly central to the symbolism of national identity and yet also still reluctant to accept the merest hint of intrusive authority. -- Michael HerzfeldKalantzis' marvellous and wise book, the product of meticulous ethnography and theoretically sophisticated analysis, documents photographic practices in Sfakia that create stereotypes and also undermine them. "Thinking through the frame" and moving the debate on exoticism far beyond familiar binaries, this landmark ethnography of photography is filled with compelling description and powerful conceptual formulations that are both subtle and clear. Offering the reader wonderful evocations of places and people, this account of the fluid intersection of identity with media practices, where "tradition is demanded", is a major achievement by a key figure in Visual Anthropology. -- Christopher PinneyIn the face of a long tradition of 'iconophobia' in anthropology, Tradition in the Frame. Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis highlights the anthropological prospects opened up by the study of a society's images and the study of a society through images. Taking an insightful and critical ethnographic approach, the writer presents the ways in which the external gaze of folklorists, photographers, tourists etc who construct stereotypes and feed other people's imaginings of 'Sfakia' and 'the Sfakians' engages in dialogue with local perceptions of the self, national narratives and international expectations. These local perceptions challenge dominant idioms, suggest alternative interpretations and significations of photographic representations, and foreground 'tiny sparks of contingency' as per Walter Benjamin which resist any national, folklorist or urban imagination. The anonymous, atemporal 'Cretan', 'the shepherd', 'the picturesque villager' is recognized by the locals and transformed into a relative, a friend with a name and a specific history, recalling the philosophical political thesis of Ariella Azoulay on the revolutionary potential of photography. Photographs themselves become objects of reappropriation and they are activated through bodily performances as they become points of reference and imitation for new photographic portraits in the present, effectively connecting contemporary with ancestral bodies. Sounds, scents, tastes, memories, experiences of Sfakia are substantiated in images and the critical writing of Kalantzis, thus allowing 'tradition' to escape from 'the frame' and reminding readers that the visual is part and parcel of our multi-sensory experience of the world, always in dialogue with imagination, desire, and expectation in (and for) the past, the present and the future. -- Eleana YalouriKalantzis has produced remarkably detailed and perceptive ethnography (if that is a word that can still be used) of a very particular society in southwestern Crete, aspects of which, however, would be immediately recognizable to anyone who has spent time anywhere in Greece and would also, I think, be found in very many contemporary societies around the world: hence my graceless intrusion of expatriate London Australians, or Irish or Texans in this review. But good ethnographies always move us from a consideration of the particular to its resonances in society in general. -- Roger Just * Journal of the Anthroplogical Society of Oxford *The valuable theory produced by the book's in-depth ethnography of the complex milieu of tradition in Sfakia and the way it links to the meanings, limits and creative subversions in visual frames, can take many movements-directions as it joins together the anthropological study of Crete, gender, exoticism, nationhood, agency, and resistance. -- Ilektra Kyriazidou * Entaglements *Immediately upon reading Tradition in the Frame, the reader is transported to the mountains of the Aegean Sea where Kalantzis unfolds layer after layer of paradoxes and tensions and, as good ethnography should, works to explain how they are resolved and mitigated. . . . Those looking to explore how to incorporate visual methods in unexpected ways will find this book particularly useful; in fact, the dedication to the use of photography to explore the myriad tensions between past/present, traditional/modern, Crete/Greece, while situating this all within a larger framework of Europeanization is a welcome model. -- James Hundley * Entaglements *Based on fieldwork in Crete, Tradition in the Frame is an ethnography that turns the seemingly facile observation that tradition is important to Greeks into a fascinating exploration of how visuality, and photography in particular, shapes dynamics of power and people's understanding of themselves. . . . In its breadth and sophistication this book is an invaluable contribution to visual anthropology and to the study of modern Greece. -- Sophie Stamatopoulou-Robbins * Journal of Modern Greek Studies *In Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, Konstantinos Kalantzis explores the experiences of Sfakians in Crete to reflect on how tradition is made meaningful today and what this can tell us about the dynamics of localisation, globalisation, modernity and belonging in our contemporary world. This is a rich and enjoyable read that will be of interest to scholars and students looking for new, generative approaches to visual culture at the intersection of the local and the global, -- Kristina Gedgaudaitė * London School of Economics Review of Books *The tools that Kalantzis generously lays out for his fellow anthropologists will, no doubt, open up this conversation toward new horizons for there is indeed much to be seen beyond the edges of cultural convention. -- Myriam Lamrani * Visual Anthropology *The study of tradition, along with that of power, remain colossal concerns across the social sciences and humanities. Joining a significant lineage on these topics is Konstantinos Kalantzis' book, Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, which offers an ethnographically precise and broad-ranging analysis of the architectonics of power and tradition in and in relation to Sfakia, a mountainous coastal region in southwest Crete. . . . for its plethora of visual-ethnographic examples, engaging storytelling, and depth of analytical insights, Tradition in the Frame will be of great interest to students and scholars working across anthropology, photography, visual culture, and beyond. -- Shireen Walton * Ethnos *Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPart 1 Spatial and National Contexts1. Driving Up the Yellow Lines: Geography and Imagination2. Sfakians in the Nation-StatePart 2 On Hegemony3. Mountain Men as Photographic Subjects and Spectators4. Performing the Stereotype: Between Containment and "Recalcitrant Alterity"5. The Experiential in the Fictive: A Film Shoot as Visceral History6. Who Is Imagining? The Encounter between Shepherds and ScientistsPart 3 Modernity and Its Discontents7. Polluting Modernity, Disturbing Pasts: Photography and Montage Logic8. Sfakians and TouristsEpilogueBiobliographyIndex
£59.40
Indiana University Press Tradition in the Frame
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn this original, beautifully written, and often moving monograph, Konstantinos Kalantzis has produced a lasting contribution to the anthropological study of contemporary Europe. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, Tradition in the Frame explores with exquisite detail a number of timely themes—the social life of photographs, conflicting tourist and local images of Crete, the performance of gender stereotypes, and the complex tension between tradition and modernity. The author's ability to view the world through the eyes of natives and foreigners, and to deconstruct visual signs and symbols, is nothing short of stunning. For anyone interested in Europe and the Mediterranean world today, this richly documented and theoretically sophisticated volume is a must read. -- Stanley BrandesThis rich account, of empirical depth and theoretical elegance, gives us a fine-grained and nuanced exploration of the work of photographs in a Cretan community. Focusing on the temporal and spatial practices of photography, it gives a cogent account of the visual culture through which questions of identity, historical imagination, nostalgia, and constructions and performances of tradition are negotiated by 'insider Sfakians'' and 'outsiders'. In demonstrating the significance of the humble snapshot, postcard and poster within networks of cultural negotiation, this book provides an exemplary case study of the value of the visual as a prism through which to consider broader questions. Bringing together, as it does, questions of centre and periphery in relation to nation, to tourism and to contemporary politics, it is in the very best traditions of both ethnographies of Europe and of visual anthropology. -- Elizabeth EdwardsTradition in the Frame is a richly innovative ethnography focusing on the visual dimensions of modern Cretan mythmaking, and especially on the material reproduction and negotiation of time-honored stereotypes of warrior masculinity. Writing of a society that has largely shifted its economy from shepherding to tourism, Kalantzis incisively demonstrates how the realities of commercial exploitation and socio-political change re-frame familiar images of a society at once proudly central to the symbolism of national identity and yet also still reluctant to accept the merest hint of intrusive authority. -- Michael HerzfeldKalantzis' marvellous and wise book, the product of meticulous ethnography and theoretically sophisticated analysis, documents photographic practices in Sfakia that create stereotypes and also undermine them. "Thinking through the frame" and moving the debate on exoticism far beyond familiar binaries, this landmark ethnography of photography is filled with compelling description and powerful conceptual formulations that are both subtle and clear. Offering the reader wonderful evocations of places and people, this account of the fluid intersection of identity with media practices, where "tradition is demanded", is a major achievement by a key figure in Visual Anthropology. -- Christopher PinneyIn the face of a long tradition of 'iconophobia' in anthropology, Tradition in the Frame. Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete by Konstantinos Kalantzis highlights the anthropological prospects opened up by the study of a society's images and the study of a society through images. Taking an insightful and critical ethnographic approach, the writer presents the ways in which the external gaze of folklorists, photographers, tourists etc who construct stereotypes and feed other people's imaginings of 'Sfakia' and 'the Sfakians' engages in dialogue with local perceptions of the self, national narratives and international expectations. These local perceptions challenge dominant idioms, suggest alternative interpretations and significations of photographic representations, and foreground 'tiny sparks of contingency' as per Walter Benjamin which resist any national, folklorist or urban imagination. The anonymous, atemporal 'Cretan', 'the shepherd', 'the picturesque villager' is recognized by the locals and transformed into a relative, a friend with a name and a specific history, recalling the philosophical political thesis of Ariella Azoulay on the revolutionary potential of photography. Photographs themselves become objects of reappropriation and they are activated through bodily performances as they become points of reference and imitation for new photographic portraits in the present, effectively connecting contemporary with ancestral bodies. Sounds, scents, tastes, memories, experiences of Sfakia are substantiated in images and the critical writing of Kalantzis, thus allowing 'tradition' to escape from 'the frame' and reminding readers that the visual is part and parcel of our multi-sensory experience of the world, always in dialogue with imagination, desire, and expectation in (and for) the past, the present and the future. -- Eleana YalouriKalantzis has produced remarkably detailed and perceptive ethnography (if that is a word that can still be used) of a very particular society in southwestern Crete, aspects of which, however, would be immediately recognizable to anyone who has spent time anywhere in Greece and would also, I think, be found in very many contemporary societies around the world: hence my graceless intrusion of expatriate London Australians, or Irish or Texans in this review. But good ethnographies always move us from a consideration of the particular to its resonances in society in general. -- Roger Just * Journal of the Anthroplogical Society of Oxford *The valuable theory produced by the book's in-depth ethnography of the complex milieu of tradition in Sfakia and the way it links to the meanings, limits and creative subversions in visual frames, can take many movements-directions as it joins together the anthropological study of Crete, gender, exoticism, nationhood, agency, and resistance. -- Ilektra Kyriazidou * Entaglements *Immediately upon reading Tradition in the Frame, the reader is transported to the mountains of the Aegean Sea where Kalantzis unfolds layer after layer of paradoxes and tensions and, as good ethnography should, works to explain how they are resolved and mitigated. . . . Those looking to explore how to incorporate visual methods in unexpected ways will find this book particularly useful; in fact, the dedication to the use of photography to explore the myriad tensions between past/present, traditional/modern, Crete/Greece, while situating this all within a larger framework of Europeanization is a welcome model. -- James Hundley * Entaglements *Based on fieldwork in Crete, Tradition in the Frame is an ethnography that turns the seemingly facile observation that tradition is important to Greeks into a fascinating exploration of how visuality, and photography in particular, shapes dynamics of power and people's understanding of themselves. . . . In its breadth and sophistication this book is an invaluable contribution to visual anthropology and to the study of modern Greece. -- Sophie Stamatopoulou-Robbins * Journal of Modern Greek Studies *In Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, Konstantinos Kalantzis explores the experiences of Sfakians in Crete to reflect on how tradition is made meaningful today and what this can tell us about the dynamics of localisation, globalisation, modernity and belonging in our contemporary world. This is a rich and enjoyable read that will be of interest to scholars and students looking for new, generative approaches to visual culture at the intersection of the local and the global, -- Kristina Gedgaudaitė * London School of Economics Review of Books *The tools that Kalantzis generously lays out for his fellow anthropologists will, no doubt, open up this conversation toward new horizons for there is indeed much to be seen beyond the edges of cultural convention. -- Myriam Lamrani * Visual Anthropology *The study of tradition, along with that of power, remain colossal concerns across the social sciences and humanities. Joining a significant lineage on these topics is Konstantinos Kalantzis' book, Tradition in the Frame: Photography, Power, and Imagination in Sfakia, Crete, which offers an ethnographically precise and broad-ranging analysis of the architectonics of power and tradition in and in relation to Sfakia, a mountainous coastal region in southwest Crete. . . . for its plethora of visual-ethnographic examples, engaging storytelling, and depth of analytical insights, Tradition in the Frame will be of great interest to students and scholars working across anthropology, photography, visual culture, and beyond. -- Shireen Walton * Ethnos *Table of ContentsContentsList of IllustrationsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationIntroductionPart 1 Spatial and National Contexts1. Driving Up the Yellow Lines: Geography and Imagination2. Sfakians in the Nation-StatePart 2 On Hegemony3. Mountain Men as Photographic Subjects and Spectators4. Performing the Stereotype: Between Containment and "Recalcitrant Alterity"5. The Experiential in the Fictive: A Film Shoot as Visceral History6. Who Is Imagining? The Encounter between Shepherds and ScientistsPart 3 Modernity and Its Discontents7. Polluting Modernity, Disturbing Pasts: Photography and Montage Logic8. Sfakians and TouristsEpilogueBiobliographyIndex
£25.19
Indiana University Press Arab Masculinities
Book SynopsisArab Masculinities provides a groundbreaking analysis of Arab men's lives in the precarious aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings. It challenges received wisdoms and entrenched stereotypes about Arab men, offering new understandings of rujula, or masculinity, across the Middle East and North Africa. The 10 individual chapters of the book foreground the voices and stories of Arab men as they face economic precarity, forced displacement, and new challenges to marriage and family life. Rich in ethnographic details, they illuminate how men develop alternative strategies of affective labor, how they attempt to care for themselves and their families within their local moral worlds, and what it means to be a good son, husband, father, and community member. Arab Masculinities sheds light on the most private spaces of Arab men's livesoffering stories that rarely enter the public realm. It is a pioneering volume that reflects the urgent need for new anthropological scholarship on men and masculTrade Review"This is an absorbing collective achievement that moves us beyond exhausted truisms about Arab men and patriarchy. With attentiveness each chapter tells us something truly new about how Muslim and Christian Arab men navigate uncertainties as they juggle desires and burdens in their lives. The volume is a valuable resource for teaching the anthropology of gender, sexuality, and family in the Arab world."—Nefissa Naguib, University of Oslo."A long-overdue and strikingly rich ethnographic insight into the under-researched field of the emerging challenges Arab men face to their masculinity. The authors meticulously explore the changing dynamics of Arab men's engagement with work, family, the state, displacement and the world around them. The book is essential reading for all of those interested in the wider issue of cultural responses provoked when societies find their identities under threat."—Soraya Tremayne, University of Oxford"Arab Masculinities provides rich empirical data and deeply incisive perspectives on what it takes—and what it means—to achieve and maintain manhood among a broad cross-section of Arab communities in today's increasingly fraught, polarized, and precarious world. The chapters address a diverse set of topics and are elegantly crafted, theoretically sophisticated, and altogether compelling. The collection will be welcomed by experts in the field and has great potential for use in the classroom; it is a stunning achievement."—Michael G. Peletz, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University"Isidoros and Inhorn have edited a remarkable volume and I applaud them and all of their authors for the invaluable insights that are advanced in this book. For far too long, Middle East Studies has explored questions surrounding gender only in relation to women in the region, and the analysis of masculinity in the field is much more recent. Arab Masculinities is a welcome response to the urgent need for more scholarship in this domain. The authors model the best of contemporary and cutting-edge research at the intersection of anthropology, masculinity studies, and the greater Middle East. Drawing upon fieldwork in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and beyond, these authors demonstrate how masculine subjectivities in the region are shaped not only by economic and political conditions, but also by social transformations at the level of the individual, family, and broader society. The men at the center of these ethnographies challenge preconceived notions about how they relate to the women in their lives and how they perform their gender in the face of stress, hopes, fears, and dreams. As a result, Arab Masculinities is a rich, groundbreaking, and nuanced collection that gives voice to the emergent masculinities that are charting the future of the Middle East and North Africa."—Sa'ed Atshan, Swarthmore College"The shared goal of these chapters is to understand how Arab men in general experience their understanding of masculinity in the context of ongoing political upheavals, displacements, and precarious economic conditions. Recommended"—A. Rassam, emerita, CUNY Queens College, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Middle East Anthropology and the Gender Divide: Reconceiving Arab Masculinity in Precarious Times, by Marcia C. Inhorn and Konstantina IsidorosPart I. Masculinity and Precarity: Class Conflict and Economic Indignity1. Egyptian Middle-Class Masculinity and its Working-Class Others, by Bård Helge Kårtveit2. Al-Ustura ("The Legend"): Folk Hero or Thug? Class and Contested Masculinity in Egypt, by Jamie Furniss3. Al-Hogra—A State of Injustice: Portraits of Moroccan Men in Search of Dignity and Piety in the Informal Economy, by Hsain IlahianePart II. Masculinity and Displacement: Moving, Settling, and Questions of Belonging4. Repeating Manhood: Migration and the Unmaking of Men in Morocco, by Alice Elliot5. "I Am a Good Man—I'm a Gardener!": Arab Migrant Fathers' Reactions to Mistrusted Masculinity in Denmark, by Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen6. Doing Gender in Shatila Refugee Camp: Palestinian Lads, Their Pigeons, and an Ethnographer, by Gustavo Barbosa7. Welcoming Ban Ki-Moon: From Warrior-Nomads to Sahrawi Refugee-Statesmen in North Africa, by Konstantina IsidorosPart III. Masculinity and Familial Futures: Sex, Marriage, and Fatherhood under Threat8. Desiring the Nation: Masculinity, Marriage, and Futurity in Lebanon, by Sabiha Allouche9. Masculinity under Siege: The Use of Narcotic Pain Relievers to Restore Virility in Egypt, by L. L. Wynn10. Palestinian Sperm-Smuggling: Fatherhood, Political Struggle, and Israeli Prisons, by Laura FerreroIndex
£22.79
Indiana University Press Arab Masculinities
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an absorbing collective achievement that moves us beyond exhausted truisms about Arab men and patriarchy. With attentiveness each chapter tells us something truly new about how Muslim and Christian Arab men navigate uncertainties as they juggle desires and burdens in their lives. The volume is a valuable resource for teaching the anthropology of gender, sexuality, and family in the Arab world."—Nefissa Naguib, University of Oslo."A long-overdue and strikingly rich ethnographic insight into the under-researched field of the emerging challenges Arab men face to their masculinity. The authors meticulously explore the changing dynamics of Arab men's engagement with work, family, the state, displacement and the world around them. The book is essential reading for all of those interested in the wider issue of cultural responses provoked when societies find their identities under threat."—Soraya Tremayne, University of Oxford"Arab Masculinities provides rich empirical data and deeply incisive perspectives on what it takes—and what it means—to achieve and maintain manhood among a broad cross-section of Arab communities in today's increasingly fraught, polarized, and precarious world. The chapters address a diverse set of topics and are elegantly crafted, theoretically sophisticated, and altogether compelling. The collection will be welcomed by experts in the field and has great potential for use in the classroom; it is a stunning achievement."—Michael G. Peletz, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology, Emory University"Isidoros and Inhorn have edited a remarkable volume and I applaud them and all of their authors for the invaluable insights that are advanced in this book. For far too long, Middle East Studies has explored questions surrounding gender only in relation to women in the region, and the analysis of masculinity in the field is much more recent. Arab Masculinities is a welcome response to the urgent need for more scholarship in this domain. The authors model the best of contemporary and cutting-edge research at the intersection of anthropology, masculinity studies, and the greater Middle East. Drawing upon fieldwork in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine and beyond, these authors demonstrate how masculine subjectivities in the region are shaped not only by economic and political conditions, but also by social transformations at the level of the individual, family, and broader society. The men at the center of these ethnographies challenge preconceived notions about how they relate to the women in their lives and how they perform their gender in the face of stress, hopes, fears, and dreams. As a result, Arab Masculinities is a rich, groundbreaking, and nuanced collection that gives voice to the emergent masculinities that are charting the future of the Middle East and North Africa."—Sa'ed Atshan, Swarthmore College"The shared goal of these chapters is to understand how Arab men in general experience their understanding of masculinity in the context of ongoing political upheavals, displacements, and precarious economic conditions. Recommended"—A. Rassam, emerita, CUNY Queens College, ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Middle East Anthropology and the Gender Divide: Reconceiving Arab Masculinity in Precarious Times, by Marcia C. Inhorn and Konstantina IsidorosPart I. Masculinity and Precarity: Class Conflict and Economic Indignity1. Egyptian Middle-Class Masculinity and its Working-Class Others, by Bård Helge Kårtveit2. Al-Ustura ("The Legend"): Folk Hero or Thug? Class and Contested Masculinity in Egypt, by Jamie Furniss3. Al-Hogra—A State of Injustice: Portraits of Moroccan Men in Search of Dignity and Piety in the Informal Economy, by Hsain IlahianePart II. Masculinity and Displacement: Moving, Settling, and Questions of Belonging4. Repeating Manhood: Migration and the Unmaking of Men in Morocco, by Alice Elliot5. "I Am a Good Man—I'm a Gardener!": Arab Migrant Fathers' Reactions to Mistrusted Masculinity in Denmark, by Anne Hovgaard Jørgensen6. Doing Gender in Shatila Refugee Camp: Palestinian Lads, Their Pigeons, and an Ethnographer, by Gustavo Barbosa7. Welcoming Ban Ki-Moon: From Warrior-Nomads to Sahrawi Refugee-Statesmen in North Africa, by Konstantina IsidorosPart III. Masculinity and Familial Futures: Sex, Marriage, and Fatherhood under Threat8. Desiring the Nation: Masculinity, Marriage, and Futurity in Lebanon, by Sabiha Allouche9. Masculinity under Siege: The Use of Narcotic Pain Relievers to Restore Virility in Egypt, by L. L. Wynn10. Palestinian Sperm-Smuggling: Fatherhood, Political Struggle, and Israeli Prisons, by Laura FerreroIndex
£52.70
University of Texas Press Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush
Book SynopsisA study of the struggle between narcissistic and masochistic modes of manhood that defined Hollywood masculinity from the late 1980s to the first decade of the twenty-first century.Trade ReviewDavid Greven has produced a stimulating and wide-ranging study which focuses on a range of films which span the Bush-to-Bush era…One of the strengths of Greven’s book is its close focus on aesthetic aspects of film which are effectively linked to psychoanalytical concepts and wider debates concerning the representation of masculinity in the Bush-to-Bush era…Greven’s study succeeds in providing a thought-provoking analysis which should be very helpful to scholars of queer theory and Hollywood film. * Journal of American Studies *A challenging book...that turns a great deal of theory on masochism and masculinity on its head. In a complex yet intriguing manner, Greven manages to weave together classical mythology, psychoanalytic theory, Mulveyan gaze theory, and textual analysis of several key films of the era...The author delivers thought-provoking readings of these films. * Choice *Subtly radical...Greven takes to task the perverse academic gymnastics of theorists who valorize self-destructive and often self-hating displays of masculinity—and especially queerness—as somehow empowering, and offers as a corrective a sensible and cogent critique of the masochistic portrayals of the male body in Hollywood films of the last two decades. * Cineaste *Greven has put a very useful perspective on the notion of queer sexualities with this study. Moreover his work provides an excellent rebuttal of the position of several prominent film critiques who deny the usefulness of theory in analyzing cinema. Greven vigorously discards the injunction to reject a psychoanalytic basis for examining spectator’s identification with screen images. The readings here are nuanced and powerful and they are admirably supported by psychoanalytic theory. * College Literature *When he explores the movies themselves, analyzing text and subtext, directorial choices and scores, lighting and framing, symbolism and defamiliarization, David Greven's postulations are fascinating and often revelatory.... it’s a gift to read his insights and interpretations and then revisit these films after reading such a well-considered exploration of them. * Sacramento Book Review *The principal contribution of this book is the close readings of presentations of manhood in the films Casualties of War, The Silence of the Lambs, Fight Club, The Passion of the Christ, and Brokeback Mountain. * Men and Masculinities *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: When Hollywood Masculinity Became Self-Aware Chapter One: Manhood in Hollywood from Bush to Bush Chapter Two: An Ill-Fated Bacchanal: Casualties of War and the Horror of the Homosocial Chapter Three: Male Medusas and Female Heroes: Fetishism and Ambivalence in The Silence of the Lambs Chapter Four: The Hollywood Man Date: Split Masculinity and the Double-Protagonist Film Chapter Five: Destroying Something Beautiful: Narcissism, Male Violence, and the Homosocial in Fight Club Chapter Six: "Am I Blue?" Vin Diesel and Multiracial Male Sexuality Chapter Seven: The Devil Wears Abjection: The Passion of the Christ Chapter Eight: Narcissus Transfigured: Brokeback Mountain Epilogue: The Reign of Masochism Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Texas Press What Makes a Man Sex Talk in Beirut and Berlin
Book SynopsisThis “novelized biography” by Lebanese novelist Rashid al-Daif and pointed riposte by German novelist Joachim Helfer demonstrate how attitudes toward sex and masculinity across cultural contexts are intertwined with the work of fiction, thereby highlightiTable of Contents Publisher’s Note Translators’ Notes How the German Came to His Senses The Queering of the World Essays Irony and Counter-Irony in Rashid al-Daif’s How the German Came to His Senses (Ken Seigneurie) Colonial Discourse and Dissent in Rashid al-Daif’s and Joachim Helfer’s Contributions to the West-Eastern Divan (Rebecca Dyer) The Hermeneutics of the Other: Intersubjectivity and the Limits of Narration in The Queering of the World (Michael Allan) Writing, Reading, and Talking Sex: Negotiating the Rules of an Intercultural Language Game (Gary Schmidt) The Temple of Heteronormativity: Rashid al-Daif’s How the German Came to His Senses, Joachim Helfer’s The Queering of the World, and Navid Kermani’s Thou Shalt—A Comparative Reading (Andreas Krass)
£21.59
University of Washington Press Racial Erotics
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University of Washington Press Racial Erotics
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University of Wisconsin Press Fascination with the Persecutor George L. Mosse
Book SynopsisIn 1933, George L. Mosse fled Berlin and settled in the United States, where he went on to become a renowned historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This translation makes Emilio Gentile’s groundbreaking study of Mosse’s life and work available to English language readers.Table of Contents Preface Introduction: Between Autobiography and Historiography 1 The Contemporary Past 2 A New Cultural History 3 The Road to Totalitarianism 4 The Fascist Revolution 5 The Fascism of Fascisms 6 From Ideology to Liturgy 7 The New Politics 8 A Provisional Dwelling 9 The Horrors of a Fully Furnished House 10 Beyond Catastrophe Conclusion: The Religion of an Eternal Traveler A Lasting Intellectual Friendship: An Interview with Emilio Gentile Notes
£62.96
John Wiley & Sons Inc College Men and Masculinities Theory Research and
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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John Wiley & Sons Inc Social Determinants of Health Among
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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The University of Michigan Press Bad Boys
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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The University of Michigan Press In Search of Tunga
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
£56.95
University of California Press The Art of the Gut Manhood Power and Ethics in
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
£27.00
University of California Press Go Nation
Book SynopsisGo (Weiqi in Chinese) is one of the most popular games in East Asia, with a steadily increasing fan base around the world. Like chess, Go is a logic game but it is much older, with written records mentioning the game that date back to the 4th century BC. This title deals with this game.Trade Review"Moskowitz advances our understanding of the key roles that sports play in gendering societies in Asia ... this book is Invaluable." -- Yunxiang Gao SignsTable of ContentsPreface Fieldwork Notes on Terminology Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction The Game of Weiqi New Technologies The Ranking System Gender Coding and the Naturalization of Difference Weiqi Women Ambiguous Identities and Taiwan's Women's Team Constructing Masculinities and the Weiqi Sphere Chapter 2. Multiple Metaphors and Mystical Imaginaries: A Cultural History of Weiqi The Rules Weiqi in Comparison with Chess Religious Mysticism and Historical Teleologies From Stigma to Status Weiqi's War Imagery Chapter 3. Nation, Race, and Man The Scholar and the Warrior Chinese Masculinities: Individual Formation and Nationalist Discourses Anti-Japanese Sentiments as Nation Building Japan's Weiqi Legacy Mastering East Asia: National Rivalries and International Competitions Conceptualizing Nations, Rethinking Play An Unexpected Nostalgia for the Japanese Era Chapter 4. Becoming Men: Children's Training in Contemporary China Weiqi Teachers and the Confucian Ideal Modernizing Influences--Weiqi Schools as Corporate Structures The Students Weiqi as a Disciplinary Mechanism Weiqi as Sport--Beyond the Cartesian Divide Disciplining Parents Chapter 5. A Certain Man: University Students, Amateurs, and Professionals Class Consciousness and Relentless Competition Suzhi Weiqi's Suzhi Discourse The Peking University Weiqi Team, Ranks, and the Amateur/Professional Divide Professional Training Facing the Future Chapter 6. Retirement and Constructions of Masculinity Among Working Class Weiqi Players First Contact Retirement Park Culture Kibitzing as a Social Ideal Lived Histories Masculinity Among the Working Class at the Park Chapter 7. Conclusion: Looking Forward to a Bygone Age Glossary of Terms Citations Index
£22.50
University of California Press Doing the Best I Can Fatherhood in the Inner
Book SynopsisAcross the political spectrum, unwed fatherhood is denounced as one of the leading social problems of today. This book looks at fatherhood among inner-city men often dismissed as deadbeat dads. It helps you examine how couples in challenging straits come together and get pregnant so quickly - without planning.Trade Review"An essential book." -- Harold Pollack The Washington Post/WonkBlogTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. One Thing Leads to Another 2. Thank You, Jesus 3. The Stupid Shit 4. Ward Cleaver 5. Sesame Street Mornings 6. Fight or Flight 7. Try, Try Again 8. The New Package Deal Appendix Notes References Index
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University of California Press GUYnecology The Missing Science of Mens
Book SynopsisWhat is healthy spermor themale biological clock?This book details why we don't talk aboutmen's reproductive health and how this lackshapes reproductive politics today. For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men's health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences? Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men's reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men's age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today. Trade Review"GUYnecology is methodologically rich, including analysis of historical documents, investigating how scientific knowledge is (or is not) disseminated and engaged by the media, and presenting Almeling's qualitative interviews about subjects' impressions of men’s reproductive health. Together with her previous work (Sex Cells) on the gendered rhetoric used in the reproductive industry, GUYnecology offers the sociologist a robust understanding of the gendered cultural discourses that inform people’s approaches to reproductive health. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Almeling explains why no medical specialty exists that is devoted to male reproductive health—the guy equivalent of gynecology. When it comes to penis science, it seems, men have gotten shafted." * Scientific American *"A methodical writer. . . , Almeling puts new data about male reproduction to work." * Times Literary Supplement *"By convincingly documenting the active construction of this non-knowledge, this book makes a key contribution to our understanding of the ways that Western gender ideologies have become naturalized in biomedicine and reified in public imaginations of sexed bodies." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In its core argument that knowledge and non-knowledge about reproductive health stem from binary and 'opposite' conceptualizations of gender, GUYnecology is a critical contribution to our understanding of men, masculinities, and reproduction." * Men and Masculinities *"GUYnecology is both accessible and imaginative from the opening tableau. . . . Almeling makes use of helpful analogies and metaphors to explain what can sometimes be complex or highly theoretical concepts, such as those of relationships between gender and sex. Aside from the specific research contained in the book, these introductory explanations will no doubt be of use to those new to the subject (or process) of gender from an academic perspective, and for those teaching these subjects." * Social History of Medicine *"GUYnecology is a generative book and acts as a foundation from which future scholars can build the field of reproductive health. The book convincingly argues the interconnectedness of political, social, and medical constructs in the production, circulation and reception of men’s reproduction. Studies of reproduction must destabilize the notion that reproduction relates specifically to cis-gendered women, and Almeling leaves us to ponder the implications of considering all people as reproductive. It is, perhaps, this tantalizing conclusive thought that will prove most generative for future research." * New Genetics and Society *"An engaging and informative read. . . . Almeling’s conclusion about what should be done with regard to male reproductive health and paternal effects is, happily, parallel to what many feminists have recommended with regard to women’s reproductive care: she believes that what is needed is a combination of broad research and attention to social and environmental structures of health and illness." * Nursing Clio *"Accessibly written and highly engaging, GUYnecology should prove an effective teaching tool for undergraduate and post graduate students alike." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Medical Specialization and the Making of Biomedical Knowledge 1. Whither GUYnecology? 2. Andrology Again Part II Circulating Knowledge about Men’s Reproductive Health 3. Making Knowledge about Paternal Effects (with Jenna Healey) 4. Reproductive Health for Half the Public Part III Men’s Views of Reproduction 5. Sex, Sperm, and Fatherhood 6. Healthy Sperm? Conclusion: The Politics of Men’s Reproductive Health Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Interviewees Notes Bibliography
£64.00
University of California Press GUYnecology
Book SynopsisWhat is healthy spermor themale biological clock?This book details why we don't talk aboutmen's reproductive health and how this lackshapes reproductive politics today. For more than a century, the medical profession has made enormous efforts to understand and treat women's reproductive bodies. But only recently have researchers begun to ask basic questions about how men's health matters for reproductive outcomes, from miscarriage to childhood illness. What explains this gap in knowledge, and what are its consequences? Rene Almeling examines the production, circulation, and reception of biomedical knowledge about men's reproductive health. From a failed nineteenth-century effort to launch a medical specialty called andrology to the contemporary science of paternal effects, there has been a lack of attention to the importance of men's age, health, and exposures. Analyzing historical documents, media messages, and qualitative interviews, GUYnecology demonstrates how this non-knowledge shapes reproductive politics today. Trade Review"GUYnecology is methodologically rich, including analysis of historical documents, investigating how scientific knowledge is (or is not) disseminated and engaged by the media, and presenting Almeling's qualitative interviews about subjects' impressions of men’s reproductive health. Together with her previous work (Sex Cells) on the gendered rhetoric used in the reproductive industry, GUYnecology offers the sociologist a robust understanding of the gendered cultural discourses that inform people’s approaches to reproductive health. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Almeling explains why no medical specialty exists that is devoted to male reproductive health—the guy equivalent of gynecology. When it comes to penis science, it seems, men have gotten shafted." * Scientific American *"A methodical writer. . . , Almeling puts new data about male reproduction to work." * Times Literary Supplement *"By convincingly documenting the active construction of this non-knowledge, this book makes a key contribution to our understanding of the ways that Western gender ideologies have become naturalized in biomedicine and reified in public imaginations of sexed bodies." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In its core argument that knowledge and non-knowledge about reproductive health stem from binary and 'opposite' conceptualizations of gender, GUYnecology is a critical contribution to our understanding of men, masculinities, and reproduction." * Men and Masculinities *"GUYnecology is both accessible and imaginative from the opening tableau. . . . Almeling makes use of helpful analogies and metaphors to explain what can sometimes be complex or highly theoretical concepts, such as those of relationships between gender and sex. Aside from the specific research contained in the book, these introductory explanations will no doubt be of use to those new to the subject (or process) of gender from an academic perspective, and for those teaching these subjects." * Social History of Medicine *"GUYnecology is a generative book and acts as a foundation from which future scholars can build the field of reproductive health. The book convincingly argues the interconnectedness of political, social, and medical constructs in the production, circulation and reception of men’s reproduction. Studies of reproduction must destabilize the notion that reproduction relates specifically to cis-gendered women, and Almeling leaves us to ponder the implications of considering all people as reproductive. It is, perhaps, this tantalizing conclusive thought that will prove most generative for future research." * New Genetics and Society *"An engaging and informative read. . . . Almeling’s conclusion about what should be done with regard to male reproductive health and paternal effects is, happily, parallel to what many feminists have recommended with regard to women’s reproductive care: she believes that what is needed is a combination of broad research and attention to social and environmental structures of health and illness." * Nursing Clio *"Accessibly written and highly engaging, GUYnecology should prove an effective teaching tool for undergraduate and post graduate students alike." * Social Forces *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Part I Medical Specialization and the Making of Biomedical Knowledge 1. Whither GUYnecology? 2. Andrology Again Part II Circulating Knowledge about Men’s Reproductive Health 3. Making Knowledge about Paternal Effects (with Jenna Healey) 4. Reproductive Health for Half the Public Part III Men’s Views of Reproduction 5. Sex, Sperm, and Fatherhood 6. Healthy Sperm? Conclusion: The Politics of Men’s Reproductive Health Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Interviewees Notes Bibliography
£18.90
University of California Press Sacrificial Limbs Masculinity Disability and
Book SynopsisSacrificial Limbs chronicles the everyday lives and political activism of disabled veterans of Turkey's Kurdish war, one of the most volatile conflicts in the Middle East. Through nuanced ethnographic portraits,Açiksözexamines how veterans' experiences of war and disability are closely linked to class, gender, and ultimately the embrace of ultranationalist right-wing politics. Bringing the reader into military hospitals, commemorations, political demonstrations, and veterans' everyday spaces of care, intimacy, and activism, Sacrificial Limbs provides a vivid analysis of the multiple and sometimes contradictory forces that fashion veterans' bodies, political subjectivities, and communities. It is essential reading for students and scholars interested in anthropology, masculinity, and disability.Trade Review"An engaging, sophisticated contribution to the literature on conflict studies, political violence, medical anthropology, gender studies, and disability studies, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey is likely to put Turkey on the map of world anthropology as never before." * Conflict and Society *"Offers a timely, rare, and robust look at the making and unmaking of political subjectivities, communities, and the state through a profound analysis of conscripts’ experiences of war and bodily loss." * New Perspectives on Turkey *"Sacrificial Limbs brings a critical approach to the often Eurocentric field of disability studies and contributes to gender studies and masculinity studies in the Middle East. Açıksöz’s perspectives on sacrificial crisis, sovereignty, and authoritarianism will encourage debates about the anthropology of state and conspiracy, disappointment, and crisis and temporality." * American Ethnologist *"An elegantly woven narrative that goes well beyond its manifest ethnographic aim and reads as an astute commentary on the recent past and present of Turkish politics. Combining theoretical rigor with ethnographic finesse, Sacrificial Limbs is an essential read for scholars of gender, disability, militarism, and political violence." * Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association *"The strength of Sacrificial Limbs is twofold: on one hand, it delves deeply into the history of Turkish politics, culture, and social life while at the same time it opens up to a broader sphere of applicability for those interested in gender, sexuality, disability, nationalism, and politics." * Disability Studies Quarterly *"The book is equally a work of political anthropology and medical anthropology and would easily be at home in upper- level undergraduate or graduate courses about either subject. With its careful attention to the sociocultural and political, and the embodiment of disabled masculinity, the book is also an exemplary contribution to the burgeoning field of disability anthropology, and one that clearly demonstrates how work on disability can push medical anthropology to attend to the political in new ways." * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Açıksöz effectively reminds us of how otherwise unmarked bodies in theories of sovereignty and biopolitics (and necropolitics) are already always gendered, classed, and ethno-racialized in specific ways." * Anthropology Book Forum *"Brings together meticulous ethnographic insight with rigorous conceptual analysis. . . . Açıksöz has written a beautiful ethnography that provides rare insight into the intimate lives of the protagonists of ultranationalist politics. It is a book that approaches its interlocutors with critical empathy, seeking to understand and lay bare what propels them to become protagonists in deadly violence." * Kurdish Studies *"Sacrificial Limbs weaves an extremely well-written and caring ethnography with important theoretical insights. It is a must-read for those interested in contemporary political dynamics in Turkey and the Middle East. . . . It is no surprise that this elegant ethnography has won several prestigious book awards including the 2021 New Millennium Book Award by the Society of Medical Anthropology and 2020 Fatema Mernisi Award by MESA (Middle Eastern Studies Association). It is highly recommended to political anthropologists." * Political and Legal Anthropology Review *"Moving in its description and insightful in its analysis, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey provides timely and important contributions to the study of nationalism, sovereignty, violence, masculinity, and embodiment. The author’s discussion of prostheses and their political significance is particularly fascinating." * Ethnos *"This is the kind of book one would point to as a textbook example of ethnographic description or, if you like, of ‘thick description’. But the thickness under consideration does not just mean a mass of statements lumped together by a certain thematic resemblance but rather indicates an eloquently weaved narrative that moves, unsettles, and affects the reader." * Cultural Studies *"Can we still understand the suffering of the people whose politics are offensive to our worldviews if they are simultaneously threatening us or the people sharing our political stance? In Sacrificial Limbs, an ethnography of the disabled veterans and martyrs’ families in Turkey, Salih Can Açıksöz asks and answers this question by inhabiting a ‘grey zone’ and by writing critically, tragically and beautifully from within it." * Social Anthropology *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Preface: Entering a Gray Zone Abbreviations Introduction 1 • Being-on-the-Mountains 2 • The Two Sovereignties: Masculinity and the State 3 • Of Gazis and Beggars 4 • Communities of Loss 5 • Prosthetic Revenge 6 • Prosthetic Debts Epilogue: Bodies and Temporalities of Political Violence Notes Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press On Shifting Ground
Book SynopsisOn Shifting Ground examines how it is to become a man in a place and time defined by economic contraction and carceral expansion. Jamie J. Fader draws on in-depth interviews with a racially diverse sample of Philadelphia's millennial men to analyze the key tensions that organize their lives: isolation versus connectedness, stability versus drama, hope versus fear, and stigma and shame versus positive, masculine affirmation. In the unfamiliar cultural landscape of contemporary adult masculinity, these men strive to define themselves in terms of what they can accomplish despite negative labels, as well as seeking to avoid becoming a statistic in the face of endemic risk.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Philadelphia as a Site of Shifting Ground 3. Leaving Crime Behind in the Process of Maturation 4. Isolation as a Way of Avoiding Trouble and Managing Risk 5. Stigma, Generativity, and Redemption 6. Durable Social Ties, Linked Lives, and Adult Masculinities 7. Meanings of Manhood and Adulthood Conclusion: New Frames for Creating Solidarity and Justice Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£56.80
University of California Press On Shifting Ground
Book SynopsisOn Shifting Ground examines how it is to become a man in a place and time defined by economic contraction and carceral expansion. Jamie J. Fader draws on in-depth interviews with a racially diverse sample of Philadelphia's millennial men to analyze the key tensions that organize their lives: isolation versus connectedness, stability versus drama, hope versus fear, and stigma and shame versus positive, masculine affirmation. In the unfamiliar cultural landscape of contemporary adult masculinity, these men strive to define themselves in terms of what they can accomplish despite negative labels, as well as seeking to avoid becoming a statistic in the face of endemic risk.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Philadelphia as a Site of Shifting Ground 3. Leaving Crime Behind in the Process of Maturation 4. Isolation as a Way of Avoiding Trouble and Managing Risk 5. Stigma, Generativity, and Redemption 6. Durable Social Ties, Linked Lives, and Adult Masculinities 7. Meanings of Manhood and Adulthood Conclusion: New Frames for Creating Solidarity and Justice Methodological Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£22.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Mens Health
Book SynopsisWith recent social trends and developments in health care policy, the health of men is high on the political agenda. Men''s Health: Perspectives, Diversity and Paradox examines and clarifies what is known about the socialisation of boys and men. The book shows how this influences the ways in which they maintain their health, how they respond to illness, and why they do or do not seek help. It also includes personal stories and poems by men. The text reviews research on health, gender and masculinity, and describes recent research on the health of men at work. The research forms the basis for exploring how national, regional and local strategies can be developed to improve men''s health. The book is intended for medical, nursing and social science students, and health service managers and professionals. It is relevant for academic departments of public health, social medicine, general practice, nursing, health sciences, women''s studies, gender studies, public policy anTrade Review"[This] is a very comprehensive book that addresses a vast range of men's health issues...a useful text for those seeking a broad overview of many of the issues related to men's health." Journal of Advanced Nursing “Its particular strength is in providing a public health perspective that is distinctly lacking from much of the literature on men’s health” Community PractitionerTable of ContentsList of Figures; Icons Used in This Text; List of Tables; List of Personal Stories; Acknowledgements; Forword; Is there a crisis in men's health; Overview of male health; Gender and masculinities; Health and illnes behaviour in males; The health of men at work; Perceptions of health amongst men at work; National and international perspectives; Local perspectives; Policy and progress; References; Index
£64.76
Harvard University Press Hysterical Men
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Harvard University Press Fatherhood
Book SynopsisLooking at every kind of fatherhood - being a father in and out of marriage, fathering from a distance, stepfathering, and parenting by gay males, this book presents a picture of how being a parent fits with men's broader social and work lives, how fatherhood evolved, and how it differs across cultures and through time.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable book, both for its clarity and for its depth of research and detail. What makes it unique is the authors' multicultural and evolutionary approach to the issue of fatherhood. Among the elite group of scholars who study evolutionary anthropology, I can't think of a pair more qualified to write this book than Gray and Anderson. -- Richard Bribiescas, Yale UniversityThis book should be required reading for all fathers and potential fathers. Whether a man is contemplating starting a family down the road as a biological father or buying one ready-made off the shelf as a stepfather, this is the indispensable guidebook for trying to be good at fatherhood. Similarly, for social and behavioral scientists interested in families and parenting from a cross-cultural perspective, this will become the standard reference for years to come. No matter what perspective one brings to the table--this reviewer's happens to be evolutionary--there is plenty here to make one think. It is almost scary how much information Gray and Anderson pack in this book, let alone how easy it is to read. -- M. J. O'Brien * Choice *Gray and Anderson's Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior, provides a much needed perspective on men's parenting in general, as well as nuanced discussion of how this parenting varies across cultures, historical periods within cultures, and across individual men. The evolutionary perspective is critical, but equally important is the focus on fatherhood, as books and articles on fatherhood are dwarfed by a large and growing body of research on motherhood and alloparenting. In redressing this balance, Gray and Anderson do for fatherhood what [Sarah] Hrdy has done for motherhood...Essential reading for anyone interested in fatherhood and...an excellent starting point for researchers who want to pursue evolutionarily informed studies of fatherhood. Perhaps the most important quality of this work is that it should spark the interest of young evolutionary minded scholars, such that in coming decades fatherhood will be studied with the same care and depth that motherhood has been. -- Drew H. Bailey, Benjamin Winegard, and David C. Geary * Evolutionary Psychology *Gray, and Anderson's Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior is a timely publication that brings together a wide range of research on fathers, the expression of paternal care, and the impacts of paternal involvement. Indeed, for scholars interested in male reproductive ecology or parental investment, among other anthropological topics, Fatherhood would stand on the merits of its review of the existing scholarship on fatherhood. More notably, however, using an erudite, yet, conversational style, Gray and Anderson apply principles of evolutionary theory to this body of literature in a heretofore-missing compilation...Altogether Gray and Anderson present a host of interesting studies that illustrate the unique ways in which humans and other species experience fatherhood under the skin and, even so, elucidate the extent to which researchers have only scratched the surface in these exciting new domains. In total, Gray and Anderson's Fatherhood adds richly to the ways we think about infant care and human cooperation as being foremost to understanding aspects of human evolution...Gray and Anderson have made a significant contribution to the field of biological anthropology. Appealing to both scholars and nonscholars alike, this text represents a new "go-to" source for those wishing to learn about evolutionary, anthropological approaches to human and hominin fatherhood. For those of us who seek to teach the value of a truly integrative approach to these subjects, this book will undoubtedly prove to be a highly valuable commodity at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. -- Lee T. Gettler * American Journal of Human Biology *[Fatherhood] is helping fill the research gap about fathers. It describes, based on masses of scientific evidence, the so-called "Dad Effect." Or, how fatherhood changes men. -- Douglas Todd * Vancouver Sun *Table of Contents* Preface * Introduction * Our Founding Fathers * A World of Diversity: Cross-Cultural Variation in Paternal Care * Men and Marriage * Fathers and Fertility * Who's the Dad? * Father Involvement, Father Absence, and Children's Outcomes * The Makings of a Stepfather * Having It All? Fatherhood, Male Social Relationships, and Work * The Descent of Dad's Sexuality * Babies on His Brain * Health and the Human Father * Rewriting the Manual * Appendix * References * Acknowledgments * Index
£23.36
Harvard University, Asia Center Feeling the Past in SeventeenthCentury China 121
Book SynopsisFeeling the Past in Seventeenth-Century China highlights the central role played by the body in writers' memories during the MingQing cataclysm. Sight, sound, taste, and touch configured ordinary experiences next to traumatic events. This embodied experience reveals literature's mission of remembrance as a moral endeavor in cultural continuity.Trade ReviewCarefully structured, consistently argued, and elegantly written, Feeling the Past certainly piques [the] reader’s interest in and advances our understanding of the traumatic Ming–Qing dynastic transition as well as the literati’s lived experiences and memory of the trying times. -- Jun Fang * Canadian Journal of History *A powerful account that effectively prompts us to relive the pain and suffering of those embroiled in the bloody and chaotic dynastic transition occurring five hundred years earlier…If drawing attention to bodily sensations—experienced as well as remembered—is her goal, then Ling has surely achieved it quite successfully. -- Q. Edward Wang * Chinese Historical Studies *The strength of Ling’s book is surely in its fine translations and detailed exploration of the trauma literature of the second half of the seventeenth century in China, forming a worthy successor to the work of Lynn Struve that first introduced the works of Ding Yaokang and Wang Xiuchu to nonspecialists on the era. -- David Luesink * China Review International *
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Princeton University Press Constructing Brotherhood
Book SynopsisDespite the persistence of the fraternal form of association in guilds, trade unions, and political associations, as well as in fraternal social organizations, scholars have often ignored its importance as a cultural and social theme. This provocative volume helps to redress that neglect. Tracing the development of fraternalism from early modern western Europe through eighteenth-century Britain to nineteenth-century America, Mary Ann Clawson shows how white males came to use fraternal organizations to resolve troubling questions about relations between the sexes and between classes: American fraternalism in the 1800s created bonds of loyalty across class lines and made gender and race primary categories of collective identity.British men had symbolically become stone masons to express their commitment to the emerging market economy and to the social value of craft labor. Clawson points out that American fraternalism fulfilled similar purposes, as fraternal organizations recoTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. v*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. vii*INTRODUCTION. Fraternalism as a Social Form, pg. 3*1. The Fraternal Model, pg. 21*2. The Craftsman as Hero, pg. 53*3. Was the Lodge a Working-Class Institution?, pg. 87*4. Fraternal Orders in Nineteenth-Century America, pg. 111*5. Social Fraternalism and the Artisanal Ideal, pg. 145*6. The Rise of the Women's Auxiliary, pg. 178*7. The Business of Brotherhood, pg. 211*CONCLUSION, pg. 243*INDEX, pg. 265
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas The American Elsewhere Adventure and Manliness
Book SynopsisA study of US expansionism from 1815-1848, The American Elsewhere delves into the ""adventurelogues"" of the era to reveal the emotional world of men who sought escape from the anonymity of the urban East and pressures of the Market Revolution. As volunteers, trappers, traders, or curiosity seekers, they stepped into ""elsewheres,"" distant and dangerous.Trade ReviewAmerican Elsewhere guides us through the tortuous and often baleful mental landscapes of American adventurers in the time of Jackson. In chasing the chimera of genuine experience, Bryan’s subjects create both a brotherhood of sentiment and geography of racial difference. Bryan’s grasp of emotional topographies is masterful. Saddle up and follow his lead."" - Daniel Herman, author of Hell on the Range: A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West""This book is a compelling investigation of how stories of Western adventurers (explorers, patriot warriors, and men of enterprise) from the end of the War of 1812 to the end of the U.S.-Mexican War romantically redefined the staid conventions of American manhood and thereby promoted a national ethos of manifest destiny. A unique, pivotal study in the cultural history of American exceptionalism and expansionism, it is well researched and plentifully documented, argued with judicious balance and critical discernment, and quite readable."" - Michael L. Johnson, author of Hunger for the Wild: America’s Obsession with the Untamed West
£41.36
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Masculine Domination
Book SynopsisMasculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into question.Table of ContentsPreface to the English edition: Eternalizing the arbitrary. Prelude. 1 A magnified image. 2 Anamnesis of the hidden constants. 3 Permanence and change. 4 Conclusion. 5 Postscript on domination and love. Appendix: Some questions on the gay and lesbian movement
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