Gender studies: men and boys Books
McGill-Queen's University Press Becoming Inummarik
Book SynopsisA critical look at how Inuit men balance traditional values and social circumstances to find their place in the contemporary Arctic.Trade Review"Not since Jean Briggs' Never in Anger has an ethnography been so open and honest with the trials and tribulations of conducting anthropological research in a small, close-knit community in the North. Collings provides details of community life that are authentic, intimate, and insightful; his candour and clarity in describing the everyday life of cultural anthropologists doing fieldwork is poignant and gripping." Edmund Searles, associate professor of anthropology, Bucknell University " Anyone interested in men and maleness, coming of age, ethnographic methods and ethics, hunting societies, Inuit culture, and the contemporary Arctic will be richly rewarded by reading Becoming Inummarik." American Anthroplogist
£999.99
University of British Columbia Press National Manhood and the Creation of Modern
Book SynopsisThis perceptive intellectual history of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec explores how the concept of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and an emerging Quebec nationalism.Trade ReviewJeffery Vacante livre dans sa monographie une étude brillante sur l’articulation entre masculinité, nationalisme et modernité au Québec. -- Camille Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal * Histoire Sociale *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Roots of National Manhood2 Reinforcing Heterosexual Manhood3 The Decline of the French Canadian Race4 War and Manhood5 The Revitalization of National History 6 The Critique of National ManhoodConclusionNotes; Index
£66.60
University of British Columbia Press National Manhood and the Creation of Modern
Book SynopsisThis perceptive intellectual history of masculinity in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Quebec explores how the concept of manhood shaped French Canadian culture and an emerging Quebec nationalism.Trade ReviewJeffery Vacante livre dans sa monographie une étude brillante sur l’articulation entre masculinité, nationalisme et modernité au Québec. -- Camille Robert, Université du Québec à Montréal * Histoire Sociale *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Roots of National Manhood2 Reinforcing Heterosexual Manhood3 The Decline of the French Canadian Race4 War and Manhood5 The Revitalization of National History 6 The Critique of National ManhoodConclusionNotes; Index
£23.39
MN - University of British Columbia Press Making Men Making History Canadian Masculinities
Book SynopsisThe first published collection devoted entirely to historical studies of Canadian masculinity, Making Men, Making History pushes the boundaries of what it has meant to be a man in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Expertise and Authority1 Medical Men, Masculine Respectability, and the Contest for Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec / Lisa Chilton2 Accident Prevention in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec and the Construction of Masculine Technical Expertise / Magda Fahrni3 “The Spiritual Aspect”: Gordon A. Friesen and the Mechanization of the Modern Hospital / David Theodore4 “I am still the Supt. in this plant”: Negotiating Middle-Class Masculinity in Edmonton Packinghouses in an Era of Union Strength, 1947–66 / Cynthia Loch-DrakePart 2: Masculine Spaces5 The Place of Manliness: Architecture, Domesticity, and Men’s Clubs / Annmarie Adams6 “As Christ the Carpenter”: Work-Camp Missions and the Construction of Christian Manhood in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada / Norman Knowles7 An Open Window on Other Masculinities: Gay Bars and Visibility in Montreal / Olivier VallerandPart 3: Performing Masculinities8 Scales of Manliness: Masculinity and Disability in the Displays of Little People as Freaks in Ontario, 1900s–50s / Jane Nicholas9 Claiming “Our Game”: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century / Allan Downey10 Sea Shepherds, Eco-warriors, and Impresarios: Performing Eco-masculinity in the Canadian Seal Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century / Willeen G. Keough11 The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec Libre, 1970–73 / Eric FillionPart 4: Boys to Men12 Men’s Business: Masculine Adolescence and Social Projection in Selected Coming-of-Age Novels from Interwar Quebec / Louise Bienvenue and Christine Hudon13 Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945–65 / Christopher J. Greig14 Heroes on Campus: Student Veterans and Discourses of Masculinity in Post–Second World War Canada / Patricia Jasen15 Constructing Canadianness: Terry Fox and the Masculine Ideal in Canada / Julie PerronePart 5: Men in Motion16 Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood Among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny17 “The Moral Grandeur of Fleeing to Canada”: Masculinity and the Gender Politics of American Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War / Lara Campbell18 Rebellion on the Road: Masculinity and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in Postwar Ontario / Graeme MelcherPart 6: Faces of Fatherhood19 Celebrating the Family Man: From Father’s Day to La Fête des Pères, 1910–60 / Peter Gossage20 “I’m a lousy father”: Alcoholic Fathers in Postwar Canada and the Myths of Masculine Crises / Robert RutherdaleAfterwordIndex
£92.70
University of British Columbia Press Making Men Making History
Book SynopsisThe first published collection devoted entirely to historical studies of Canadian masculinity, Making Men, Making History pushes the boundaries of what it has meant to be a man in Canada.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Expertise and Authority1 Medical Men, Masculine Respectability, and the Contest for Power in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Quebec / Lisa Chilton2 Accident Prevention in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec and the Construction of Masculine Technical Expertise / Magda Fahrni3 “The Spiritual Aspect”: Gordon A. Friesen and the Mechanization of the Modern Hospital / David Theodore4 “I am still the Supt. in this plant”: Negotiating Middle-Class Masculinity in Edmonton Packinghouses in an Era of Union Strength, 1947–66 / Cynthia Loch-DrakePart 2: Masculine Spaces5 The Place of Manliness: Architecture, Domesticity, and Men’s Clubs / Annmarie Adams6 “As Christ the Carpenter”: Work-Camp Missions and the Construction of Christian Manhood in Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada / Norman Knowles7 An Open Window on Other Masculinities: Gay Bars and Visibility in Montreal / Olivier VallerandPart 3: Performing Masculinities8 Scales of Manliness: Masculinity and Disability in the Displays of Little People as Freaks in Ontario, 1900s–50s / Jane Nicholas9 Claiming “Our Game”: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Lacrosse and the Performance of Indigenous Nationhood in the Early Twentieth Century / Allan Downey10 Sea Shepherds, Eco-warriors, and Impresarios: Performing Eco-masculinity in the Canadian Seal Hunt of the Late Twentieth Century / Willeen G. Keough11 The New Quebec Man: Activism and Collective Improvisation at Petit Québec Libre, 1970–73 / Eric FillionPart 4: Boys to Men12 Men’s Business: Masculine Adolescence and Social Projection in Selected Coming-of-Age Novels from Interwar Quebec / Louise Bienvenue and Christine Hudon13 Boys and Boyhood: Exploring the Lives of Boys in Windsor, Ontario, during the Postwar Era, 1945–65 / Christopher J. Greig14 Heroes on Campus: Student Veterans and Discourses of Masculinity in Post–Second World War Canada / Patricia Jasen15 Constructing Canadianness: Terry Fox and the Masculine Ideal in Canada / Julie PerronePart 5: Men in Motion16 Tough Bodies, Fast Paddles, Well-Dressed Wives: Measuring Manhood Among French Canadian and Métis Voyageurs in the North American Fur Trade / Carolyn Podruchny17 “The Moral Grandeur of Fleeing to Canada”: Masculinity and the Gender Politics of American Draft Dodgers during the Vietnam War / Lara Campbell18 Rebellion on the Road: Masculinity and Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs in Postwar Ontario / Graeme MelcherPart 6: Faces of Fatherhood19 Celebrating the Family Man: From Father’s Day to La Fête des Pères, 1910–60 / Peter Gossage20 “I’m a lousy father”: Alcoholic Fathers in Postwar Canada and the Myths of Masculine Crises / Robert RutherdaleAfterwordIndex
£31.50
University of British Columbia Press The Forgotten Realities of Men
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Baker Publishing Group Crisis in Masculinity
Book SynopsisA call to fathers to affirm their children--even when they have never experienced affirmation from their own fathers--Crisis in Masculinity points the way to wholeness for men and the women in their lives.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. When a Man Walks alongside Himself2. Man in Crisis: Richard's Story3. Crisis in Masculinity without Sexual Neuroses4. What Is Masculinity?5. The Polarity and Complementarity of the Sexes5. Woman in Crisis: The Story of Richard's Wife and OthersAppendix The True Masculine and the True Feminine by Jeffrey Satinover, M.D.NotesIndex
£11.39
MB - Cornell University Press Brotherly Love
Book SynopsisKenneth Loiselle not only examines the place of friendship in eighteenth-century French society and culture but also contributes to the history of emotions and masculinity.Trade ReviewBrotherly Love is a remarkably fine book that reads its sourcescarefully, uncovers new ones, and restores friendship to a place of centrality within eighteenth-century French freemasonry.... We know that a book is exceptionally good when it leads outward toward other important historical issues.... Kenneth Loiselle writes beautifully, and engagingly he has tackled major historical questions: what were the emotional bonds created by the enlightened emphasis on transparency? Can we get around the conspiracy theorists and yet acknowledge that freemasonry did contribute to the making of the French Revolution without endorsing their arguments about its having played a political role? Brotherly Love adds immensely to the restoration of freemasonry as a vital area of historical inquiry within American universities. It is a wonderful achievement. -- Margaret Jacob * Journal for Research into Freemasonry and Fraternalism *Eighteenth-century Freemasonry has always attracted historical interest. A perennial question for historians is how far Freemasonry may have served as a link between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. The subject has also stirred the attention of the wider public, attracted by Freemasonry's aura as a mysterious society that shrouds its arcane rituals in secrecy. The great originality of Loiselle's contribution is that he has combined his close-grained study of Freemasonry with the burgeoning interest in both the study of gender relations and the emotional history of friendship to give us a fresh perspective on a seemingly well-worn topic. Loiselle combines this new interpretive approach with a thorough grounding in much unfamiliar source material, making this a very welcome and opportune study. Loiselle shows an admirable attention to the sources, enabling him to give a convincing—and often touching—picture of what Masonic friendships meant to the men who experienced them. Loiselle states that his primary aim in this book is to use the Masonic movement as a 'prism to understand more clearly how ordinary men conceived of and lived friendship in eighteenth-century France' (p. 8). He has admirably succeeded in his purpose, giving us a historically sensitive account of the lived experience of male friendship, and what it meant to be a man, a friend, and a Mason. -- Marisa Linton * H-France Review? *Kenneth Loiselle has joined together several major strands of historiography and examined a rich corpus of archival evidence to produce an important study of sociability in eighteenth-century France. The strands derive from classic and recent works on Freemasonry, social relations, gender, secularization, emotion, and the relationship between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution. Loiselle is a helpful guide to, and friendly critic of, the existing literature, and his own analysis of records from Mason lodges and correspondence between individual Masons turns what risked being a synthetic review of the familiar into an original and compelling treatment of matters central to historical study. -- David G. Troyansky * American Historical Review *Kenneth Loiselle's book adds to the literature on Masonry by examining the relatively neglected topic of the private and emotional dimensions of this phenomenon. As he convincingly argues, friendship was central to the appeal and experience of Freemasonry in the eighteenth century. By studying the ritual and affective lives of Masons, this book also contributes to the burgeoning scholarship on private life, friendship, masculinity and the emotions as well as the more established literatures on how the Enlightenment was lived and the connections between the Enlightenment and the Revolution.... Loiselle is deeply engaged with the intellectual history of friendship and shows how Masons put Enlightenment ideals about the self and society into practice.... One of the merits of this book... is that it does not just consider norms and discourses but also the experience of Masonic friendship and shows the constant interaction between these two domains. -- Sarah Horowitz * French History *This well-documented study is the fruit of much archival research in the Masonic collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and numerous regional collections. An enjoyable read, the work successfully places the project of Masonic practices in their social and cultural environments in a convincingly analytical and varied way. Beyond the Masonic realm, it brings a stimulating contribution to the study of masculine sociability in the eighteenth century. -- Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire * Annales *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Masonic Utopia of Friendship2. Friendship in Ritual3. Confronting the Specter of Sodomy4. "New but True Friends": The Friendship Network of Philippe-Valentin Bertin du Rocheret5. Friendship in the Age of Sensibility6. Friendship under Fire: Freemasonry in the French RevolutionConclusionIndex
£52.20
Cornell University Press Fighting for Life Contest Sexuality and
Book SynopsisWhat accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into the role of competition in human existence. Focusing on the ways in which human life is...Trade Review"Fighting for Life is a book about contest, the agonia of the Greek arena, and its roots in male life, especially academia. Ong describes this work as an 'excavation' which was prompted by his previous explorations of such areas as the characteristics of oral and literate cultures, Peter Ramus and his 16th-century intellectual milieu, and the early dominance and more recent decline of classical rhetoric in education. In Fighting for Life, he weaves the results of a year's study of agonistic structures running through the biological, social, and noetic worlds. Describing his text as an 'essay in noobiology,' the biological roots of human consciousness, Ong claims that 'contest has been a major factor in organic evolution and it turns out to have been a major, and seemingly essential, factor in intellectual development.' ... The work is a valuable synthesis of a wide body of research and theory."-Rhetoric Society Quarterly
£26.59
Cornell University Press Masculinity and Morality
Book SynopsisIn these philosophically reflective essays, Larry May argues against standard accounts of traditional male behavior, discussing male anger, paternity, pornography, rape, sexual harassment, the exclusion of women, and what he terms the myth of uncontrollable male sexuality.Trade ReviewMay's points are well-argued, at times original, and always stimulating reading. Graduate courses on ethics and responsibility would do well to incorporate chapters from this book in their readings. And those character educators who haven't yet seen how feminism could apply to 'them' and their courses, would do well to read through these arguments. The book is one of the first books in the 'men and masculinity' literature to make feminism and feminist issues the heart of the book. This is a good work. * Journal of Moral Education *May... addresses several gender-related issues from a 'group-oriented' point of view.... He contends that men need to alter their behavior toward women, rejecting the position that innate qualities or badgering compel them to behave as they do.... He provides a well-articulated account of a distinctive stance on major issues. * Library Journal *This book represents May's latest ideas in his ongoing project to 'rethink' masculinity... His book is rich in insights and deservers to be widely read for its intelligent discussions of central aspects of sexist oppression in Western society. It is an admirable contribution to realizing Marx's dictum that the point of philosophy is to change the world, not merely interpret it. * Ethics *
£26.35
Johns Hopkins University Press Southern Sons Becoming Men in the New Nation
Book SynopsisRevealing the complex interplay of nationalism and regionalism in the lives of southern men, Glover brings new insight to the question of what led the South toward sectionalism and civil war.Trade ReviewA compelling examination. -- Giselle Roberts Civil War Book Review 2007 Makes important contributions to historians' understandings of gender, family, and sectionalism. -- Anya Jabour Journal of American History 2007 Insightful study... Recommended. Choice 2008 We read about young men who exhibited a lifelong negotiation with authority, with society's expectations, with one another, and eventually with the North... Well-written, meticulously researched. -- Evan A. Kontarinis Journal of the Early Republic 2007 Glover convincingly revises the long-held thesis that honor is the best paradigm for investigating young Southern men's identities in the early national period. -- Jennifer L. Gross H-NC, H-Net Reviews 2007 Glover successfully demonstrates that becoming a man in the early national South was a complicated process that demanded much of the boys who sought to be considered men. -- Charlene Boyer Lewis Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Glover carefully charts the empowerment which elite southern boys received over a lifetime of successfully navigating these social waters. -- R. Matthew Poteat Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review 2008 Glover's new study of southern elite manhood in the new nation is an important contribution to southern history as well as to gender history. -- Thomas A. Foster William and Mary Quarterly 2009 Southern Sons is an impressive work, certain to influence-and perhaps even reshape-Southern social and cultural history for years to come, as well as the history of American masculinities. -- Steve Tripp Historian 2009 Glover's analysis is insightful and rests on exhaustive research in reliable sources. -- Matthew Mason Southern Quarterly 2009 An important book for anyone interested in gender, family history, or education in antebellum America. It is also a refreshing way to frame the origins of the American Civil War. -- Michael DeGruccio H-CivWar 2008 Southern Sons provides insight into the day-to-day lives of young southern elites and offers a detailed examination of the process by which southern boys became southern men in the Early Republic. -- Ehren K. Foley Journal of Social History 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Sons1. The First Duties of a Southern Boy2. Raising ''Self Willed'' SonsPart II: Gentlemen and Scholars3. The Educational Aspirations of Southern Families4. Creating Southern Schools for Southern Sons5. The (Mis)Behaviors of Southern Collegians6. The Southern Code of Gentlemanly Conduct7. Acting the Part of a GentlemanPart III: Patriarchs8. Supervising Suitors9. Winning a Wife10. Professions and the ''Circle about Every Man''11. Slaveholding and the Destiny of the Republic's Southern SonsEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£22.50
Stanford University Press Live and Die Like a Man
Book SynopsisA rich ethnography of men in a low-income neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt, this book gives the reader a vivid sense of the meaning of masculinity and the multiple agents who contribute to the making of men in the Middle East.Trade Review"Despite the profusion of works on gender in the Middle East, few studies are devoted to masculinity. This pathbreaking volume is the first to examine Egyptian manhood through an ethnographic lens, following the stories of 'boys-to-men' on the brink of a revolution. A must-read for those interested in Middle East gender studies, anthropology, and contemporary Egypt." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * Yale University, author of The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East *"With Live and Die Like a Man, Farha Ghannam is far ahead of the academic curve, setting an imposing standard for future scholarship on the Arab Spring and gender across the Middle East and North Africa. This engrossing book breaks ground by using the study of men's experiences as a method for understanding contemporary societies." -- Mark LeVine, University of California * Irvine *"In a book that lives up to its name, anthropologist Ghannam explores what in means to be a man in the working-class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra . . . Her thick descriptions, amassed over 20 years of research, will make readers laugh, cry, and gasp at the lives of these individuals . . . By examining the construct of manhood, Ghannam is charting new territory in Middle Eastern studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- M. L. Russell * CHOICE *"In this groundbreaking working, anthropologist Farha Ghannam utilizes 20 years of field research in the working class neighborhood of Zawiya al-Hamra to deconstruct the notion of masculinity . . . [T]his work is a huge step forward in the field of Middle East Studies. Little work has been done on masculinity in general, and even less on what it means for the ordinary man." -- Mona L. Russell * Middle East Journal *"Farha Ghannam skillfully weaves the life stories of Egyptian men with an important accounting of the precarious balance between genders. This is a masterful treatise on masculinity in the Middle East and a timely contribution to understanding the Arab Spring and the socio-political changes facing the region. A book not to be missed." -- Sherine Hafez, University of California * Riverside *"Informed by nineteen years of field research in the same Cairo neighborhood, anthropologist Farha Ghannam's Live and Die Like a Man offers readers an incredibly well-rounded and dynamic portrait of the making (and remaking) of Egyptian working-class men that is at once intimate in its approach and capacious in its analytic reach . . . [The] explicitness of her critique in Live and Die Like a Man highlights the maturation of Ghannam's own scholarly voice . . . Its careful use of 'stories' to illustrate central theoretical claims makes it highly accessible for students, and its link to the 2011 uprising and (some of) its aftermath offers a way of understanding mass mobilization that is largely absent from most analysis and deeply convincing. Ghannam's insights, carefully wrought through the particular, have broad analytic reach and theoretical significance. Equally valuable for scholars and for teachers, Live and Die Like a Man is essential reading." -- Stacey Philbrick Yadav * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"In Live and Die Like a Man: Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt, anthropologist Farha Ghannam offers a compelling longitudinal study of masculinity in a lower- and middle-income neighborhood in Cairo known as al-Zawiya . . . Ghannam does a wonderful job showing the nuances of masculinity, as well as the complexities and contingencies of the masculine trajectory over time. Well written and accessible, Live and Die Like a Man would be an excellent texts for undergraduate classes, particularly those that aim to dispel stereotypes characterizing Middle Eastern men as macho and violent. This ethnography makes a welcome addition to a growing body of masculinity studies in the contemporary Middle East." -- Rachel Newcomb * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Written in lucid prose and rife with Egyptian Arabic words and phrases that are translated and explained not in endnotes but in body paragraphs, Ghannam draws chiefly on participant observations rather than interviews . . . The result is a rich ethnography that shows rather than merely tells, and makes productive use of the author's long-standing involvement with the community in al-Zäwiya al-Hamra. Overall, this is a captivating study of working-class masculinities in Egypt and makes a significant contribution to the anthropology of the region as well as to masculinity and gender studies." -- Kristin V. Monroe * Review of Middle East Studies *"With its focus on masculinity, Farha Ghannam's thoughtful ethnography, Live and Die Like a Man, makes important interventions into the anthropological scholarship on gender, childhood, and family in the Middle East . . . Her ethnographic sensibility perfectly grasps the dynamic and complex intertwining of male and female ways of being and self-presentation and how that interrelationship forms men's lives." -- Nefissa Naguib * International Journal of Middle East Studies *
£81.90
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Manliness and Its Discontents The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity 19001930
Book SynopsisIn a new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.
£32.21
University of Pennsylvania Press Metaphors of Masculinity
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University of Pennsylvania Press Our Living Manhood
Book SynopsisIn Our Living Manhood, Rolland Murray examines how James Baldwin, John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, John Oliver Killens, and other writers challenged the Black Power movement's political commitment to masculinity in the 1960s.Trade Review"Clearly written and persuasively argued, Our Living Manhood makes a notable contribution to the long-standing critique of male supremacy in Black Nationalism by helping to complicate that critique, and demonstrates the ongoing importance of gender/sexuality studies for understanding African American literature and culture." * Marlon Ross, University of Virginia *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Our Black Nations Reconsidered Chapter 1. My Father's Many Mansions: James Baldwin and the Architecture of Masculine Authority Chapter 2. The Clumsy Trap of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and Remembrance Chapter 3. Dark Intimacies: Sex, Nationalism, and Forgetting Chapter 4. How the Conjure-Man Gets Busy: Cultural Nationalism and Performativity Conclusion: Masculine Legacies Notes Index Acknowledgments
£45.00
University of Pennsylvania Press On the Importance of Being an Individual in
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt''s notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it.Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy''s new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, BaldassTrade Review"An elegant, erudite, and polemical book that most assuredly makes an important contribution to the literature on Renaissance individuality and male identity." * James R. Farr, Purdue University *"Douglas Biow offers a spirited and refreshing account of the ways Renaissance men carved out space for individuality over against the norms of their professions and communities." * John Jeffries Martin, Duke University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction ART I. PROFESSIONALISM Chapter 1. Professionally Speaking: The Value of Ars and Arte in Renaissance Italy—Reflections on the Historical Reach of Techne Chapter 2. Reflections on Professions and Humanism in Renaissance Italy and the Humanities Today PART II. MAVERICKS Chapter 3. Constructing a Maverick Physician in Print: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Leonardo Fioravanti's Writings Chapter 4. Visualizing Cleanliness, Visualizing Washerwomen in Venice and Renaissance Italy: Reflections on the Peculiar Case of Jacopo Tintoretto's Jews in the Desert PART III. BEARDS Chapter 5. Facing the Day: Reflections on a Sudden Change in Fashion and the Magisterial Beard Chapter 6. Manly Matters: Reflections on Giordano Bruno's Candelaio and the Theatrical and Social Function of Beards in Sixteenth-Century Italy Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£52.70
MW - Rutgers University Press Empowering Men of Color on Campus Building Student Community in Higher Education
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New York University Press Extravagant Abjection
Book SynopsisPart of the American Literatures Initiative Series 2011 Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award presented by the Modern Language AssociationChallenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.Theorizing the relation between blackness and abjection by foregrounding often neglected depictions of the sexual exploitation and humiliation of men in works by James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, and Samuel R. Delany, Extravagant Abjection asks: If we're racialized through domination and abjection, what is the political, personal, and psychological potential in racialization-through-abjection? Using the figure of male rape as a lens through which to examine this question, Scott argues that blacTrade ReviewA powerful theoretical statement in the emerging field of black queer studies, Extravagant Abjection makes the bold claim that it is necessary to work through and not simply to & white wash the political, social, ideological, and psychological consequences of what Darieck Scott names & black abjection. Building upon the insights of the more articulate practitioners of bondage and submission, Sadism and Masochism, Scotts readings of key texts in twentieth century Black American literature are at once sophisticated, provocative, creative, and indeed titillating. This book will surely become a & dark classic. -- Robert Reid-Pharr,author of Once You Go BlackAccording to Darieck Scott, the awful legacies of racial difference and debasement are not inevitable. And so in Extravagant Abjection, he deftly paves the way for new understandings of the history and culture of black power and violence. His work is theoretically exciting and sophisticated, offering invaluable lessons: that the violent pressure of black historythe pressure of its terrible subordinationcan be relieved, often in unexpected ways. Scott helps us see, even in the most humiliating and violent of scenes, an entire horizon of other, sometimes pleasurable, possibilities of resistance. -- Michael Cobb,author of God Hates Fags[Scott] arrives at the provocative notion that it is the black body's status as brought into being by and through past trauma that makes it best positioned to tap the inherent powers of abjection. * American Literature *Extravagant Abjections suturing of bottoming and volitional powerlessness, a mere and indeterminate power, reframes a sexual politics that only recognizes a notion of freedom approaching an infinity curvethe liberatory horizon that queer theory as too often yearned for. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Blackness, Abjection, and Sexuality 1 Fanon's Muscles: (Black) Power Revisited2 "A Race That Could Be So Dealt With": Terror, Time, and (Black) Power3 Slavery, Rape, and the Black Male Abject Notes on Black (Power) Bottoms 4 The Occupied Territory: Homosexuality and History in Amiri Baraka's Black Arts 5 Porn and the N-Word: Lust, Samuel Delany's The Mad Man, and a Derangement of Body and Sense(s) Conclusion: Extravagant Abjection NotesIndex About the Author
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New York University Press Gun Crusaders
Book SynopsisOffers an inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism.Trade ReviewMelzer brilliantly integrates deep personal observation with data and theory to construct a three-dimensional portrait of the modern gun rights movement. In a wonderfully written, engaging, and scrupulously fair narrative, Melzers book makes a major contribution to our understanding of this tumultuous social movement and also happens to be a really good read. It's fresh, clear-eyed, and fair. Anyone wanting to understand the gun movement must read this book. -- Robert J. Spitzer,author of The Politics of Gun ControlMelzer takes us inside the NRA to reveal that more than gun controlmuch moreis at stake: a way of life and a definition of manhood that members feel is disintegrating in their hands... [This is] a book that is both balanced and brave, critical and yet compassionate to men who have so lost their way that their guns offer their last tenuous hold on their identity. -- Michael Kimmel,author of GuylandThis book is well written, and raises interesting issues about the transformation of interest groups in a period of polarized politics. -- Clyde Wilcox * Political Science Quarterly *The author argues a very credible thesis: that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is more than a single-interest group defending the right to own and bear arms. The NRA should also be understood as a social movement organization dedicated broadly to preserving traditional, conservative values. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction Part I Defending Guns, Defending Masculinity 1 Frontier Masculinity, America's "Gun Culture," and the NRA 2 Why a Gun Movement? Part II Talking Guns, Talking Culture War 3 Framing Threats to Gun Rights 4 Under Attack 5 Fighting the Culture WarsPart III Committing to the NRA, Committing to the Right 6 The Politics of Commitment 7 Right and Far-Right Moral Politics 8 The Ties That Bind Epilogue: Tomorrow's NRA Appendix: Studying the NRA Notes Index About the Author
£23.74
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Unveiling Men
Book SynopsisMoving beyond rigid portrayals of Islamic patriarchy and female oppression, this book analyses debates about manhood in early twentieth-century Iran, particularly around questions of race and sexuality. DeSouza presents the larger implications of Pahlavi hegemonic masculinity in creating racialized male subjects and “productive” sexualities.
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University of Minnesota Press Black Boys Apart
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this sensitive, detailed ethnography, Freeden Blume Oeur takes readers into the world of all-male public schooling for African American boys. With clean, lucid prose and erudite analysis, Black Boys Apart challenges readers to rethink Black masculinity and education. Providing much-needed wisdom and humanity to the fractious school choice debate, this book is both timely and sure to make an enduring impact. An outstanding achievement."—Edward Morris, author of Learning the Hard Way: Masculinity, Place, and the Gender Gap in Education"In Black Boys Apart, Freeden Blume Oeur demonstrates why he is one of the emerging go-to critical thinkers on the intersections of race and gender in schooling. In this descriptive and engaging book, we read of Blume Oeur’s bold multidisciplinary exploration and interrogation of the linkages among academic achievement, the politics of respectability, and the socialization of boys as men through dominant (and questionable) views of masculinity."—Prudence Carter, author of Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools"This book encourages the reader to think beyond traditional narratives, think more about the ‘hidden curriculum’ of schools, and understand the lived experiences of these young black men in his study."—New Books Network"The book brilliantly illustrates the surprising success of this holistic method of education, which mixes democratic empowerment, strict discipline — and intentional racial segregation and sex separation — with a warm, loving environment of Black brotherhood."—Chill Magazine"With the present-day emphasis on privatization, choice, and market-place solutions in the American school system, Freeden Blume Oeur’s work stands out as a timely and relevant piece of scholarship."—Ethnic and Racial StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reform, Respectability, and the Crisis of Young Black Men1. A Tale of Two (Neoliberal) Schools: The Origins of Perry High and Northside Academy2. Contradictory Discourses: Separating Boys and Girls3. Teaching Black Boys: From Cultural Relevance to Culturally Irrelevant Latin4. Black Male Belonging: Race Leadership, Role Modeling, and Brotherhood5. Heroic Family Men and Ambitious Entrepreneurs: The Making of Black MenConclusion: Hoping and Hustling TogetherAcknowledgmentsAppendix: Interview and Student DataNotesBibliographyIndex
£18.89
Duke University Press Constructing the Black Masculine
Book SynopsisA major rethinking of the issues around African American masculinity, tracing its relation to images of construction, and applying ideas from Eve Sedgwick's 'Epistemology of the Closet'.Trade Review“A most impressive interrogation into the problematic of black masculine identity as it has manifested in the U.S. context from the late eighteenth century through the present day. Readers from across a range of disciplines will be uniformly impressed by the scope and dexterity of Wallace’s critical intelligence. This is an overwhelmingly admirable achievement and a very important book.”—Phillip Brian Harper, author of Are We Not Men? Masculine Anxiety and the Problem of African-American Identity“Highly original and deeply probing in its analyses into the intricacies of its topic, Constructing the Black Masculine is a timely and rewarding addition to the study of African American literature, American studies, and race and sexuality. Maurice O. Wallace has a lot to teach.”—Nellie McKay, coeditor of The Norton Anthology of African American LiteratureTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: Spectagraphia 1. On Dangers Seen and Unseen: Identity Politics and the Burden of Black Male Specularity Part Two: No Hiding Place 2. “Are We Men?”: Prince Hall, Martin Delany, and the Black Masculine Ideal in Black Freemasonry, 1775-1865 3. Constructing the Black Masculine: Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, and the Sublimits of African American Autobiography 4. A Man’s Place: Architecture, Identity, and Black Masculine Being Part Three: Looking B(l)ack 5. “I’m Not Entirely What I Look Like”: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or Jimmy’s FBEye Blues 6. What Juba Knew: Dance and Desire in Melvin Dixon’s Vanishing Room Afterword: “What Ails you Polyphemus?”: Toward a New Ontology of Vision in Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
Duke University Press Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America
Book SynopsisRanging from fatherhood to machismo and from public health to housework, this title talks about what it means to be a man in Latin America. Demonstrating that attention to masculinities does not thwart feminism, it illuminates the relationships between men and women and among men of different ethnic groups, sexual orientations, and classes.Trade Review“The essays in this volume represent a significant advance for our understanding of both the texture and obstinate endurance of inequality in Latin America. Building on recent breakthrough studies of women, gender, and sexuality, Changing Men and Masculinities opens up worlds of male experience, from the bedroom to the workplace. The volume confirms that masculinity is a useful, and indispensable, category of analysis.”—Greg Grandin, author of The Blood of Guatemala: A History of Race and Nation”Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America stands on the frontier of gender studies. Its interdisciplinarity, broad historical scope, and multicountry coverage portray well the diversity of masculinities in Latin America.”—Elizabeth Dore, coeditor of Hidden Histories of Gender and the State in Latin AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Discarding Manly Dichotomies in Latin America / Matthew C. Gutmann 1 Contemporary Latin American Perspectives on Masculinity / Mara Viveros Vigoya 27 Urban Men and Masculinities Philanderers, Cuckolds, and Wily Women: Reexamining Gender Relations in a Brazilian Working-Class Neighborhood / Claudia Fonseca 61 Men and Their Histories: Restructuring, Gender Inequality, and Life Transitions in Urban Mexico / Agustin Escobar Latapi 84 Malandros, Maria Lionza, and Masculinity in a Venezuelan Shantytown / Francisco Ferrandiz 115 The Social Constructions of Gender Identity among Peruvian Males / Norma Fuller 134 Drink, Abstinence, and Male Identity in Mexico City / Stanley Brandes 153 Representations and Practices Barbudos, Warriors, and Rotos: The MIR, Masculinity, and Power in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1965-74 / Florencia E. Mallon 179 Sexuality and Revolution: On the Footnotes to El beso de la mujer arana / Daniel Balderston 216 Measures of Manhood: Honor, Enlisted Army Service, and Slavery's Decline in Brazil, 1850–90 / Peter M. Beattie 233 Verguenza and Changing Chicano/a Narratives / Miguel Diaz Barriga 256 Pancho Jaime and the Political Uses of Masculinity in Ecuador / X. Andrade 281 Sexuality and Paternity Changing Sexualities: Masculinity and Male Homosexualities in Brazil / Richard Parker 307 Men at Home?: Child Rearing and Housekeeping among Chilean Working-Class Fathers/ Jose Olavarria 333 Neither Machos nor Maricones: Masculinity and Emerging Male Homosexual Identities in Mexico / Hector Carrillo 351 Rape and the Politics of Masculine Silence in Argentina / Donna J. Guy 370 Contributors 393 Index 399
£89.10
Duke University Press The Manly Masquerade
Book SynopsisIntends to unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence - medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and, plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso and Ariosto.Trade Review"Valeria Finucci’s book questions the traditional concepts associated with the Italian Renaissance (harmony, spiritual perfection and beauty, etc.) and addresses much less ‘luminous’ aspects of sixteenth-century Italian culture."—Armando Maggi, author of Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology”Valeria Finucci is at it again, patrolling and illuminating the unstable boundaries of sex and gender in early modern Italian culture and literature. Relating canonical literary texts to the medical and legal culture of their times, she explores the fascination that spontaneous generation, cuckoldry, the maternal imagination, androgyny, and the deliberate manufacture of castrati held for early modern Italians—and still hold for us.”—Walter Stephens, author of Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of BeliefTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Body and Generation in the Early Modern Period 1 1. The Useless Genitor: Fantasies of Putrefaction and Nongenealogical Births 37 2. The Masquerade of Paternity: Cuckoldry and Baby M[ale] in Machiavelli's La mandragola 79 3. Performing Maternity: Female Imagination, Paternal Erasure, and Monstrous Birth in Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 119 4. The Masquerade of Masculinity: Erotomania in Ariosto's Orlando furioso 159 5. Androgynous Doubling and Hermaphroditic Anxieties: Bibbiena's La calandria 189 6. The Masquerade of Manhood: The Paradox of the Castrato 225 Selected Bibliography 281 Index 307
£25.19
Duke University Press Native Men Remade
Book SynopsisA story of how gender, culture, class, and personality intersect as a group of indigenous Hawaiian men work to overcome the dislocations of colonial history. It analyzes how middle-aged, middle-class, and mixed-race members assert a warrior masculinity through practices including martial arts, wood-carving, and cultural ceremonies.Trade Review“Native Men Remade is a tour de force. Ty P. Kāwika Tengan combines participant observation and archival and oral history in a study of the Hale Mua, a group of Hawaiian men who have revived ancient martial arts, carving skills, and rituals. As both member and ethnographer, Tengan engages passionate debates about the ‘emasculation’ of Hawaiian men by colonialism and tourism, the contested place of men and women in nationalism, and feminist critiques of Hawaiian patriarchy and gender violence. For Hawaiian peoples navigating their future, he suggests there are ‘more islands of hope than of despair.’”—Margaret Jolly, Head of the Gender Relations Centre, The Australian National University“This book concerns a distinctive Hawaiian men’s movement dedicated to decolonizing male consciousness by means of ritualized physical disciplines modeled after historically resonant warrior images. The writing is powerful, and the point of view is a compelling blend of interpretive humility and analytical forthrightness. Offering a wealth of insider testimony drawn from detailed interviews and from his own engaged experience in the Hale Mua, Ty P. Kāwika Tengan makes contemporary Hawaiian struggles and sensibilities accessible to non-Hawaiians by contextualizing them historically, culturally, and comparatively. This work will interest scholars of gender, race, and postcolonial cultures, as well as both academic and non-specialist readers interested in the contemporary Pacific.”—Rena Lederman, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Lele i Ka Pō 1 1. Engagements with Modernity 33 2. Re-membering Nationhood and Koa at the Temple of State 65 3. Pu'ukoholā: At the Mound of the Whale 93 4. Kā i Mua—Cast into the Men's House 125 5. Narrating Kānanka: Talk Story, Place, and Identity 163 Conclusion: The Journeys of Hawaiian Men 199 Appendix: 'Awa Talk Story at Pani, 2005 219 Notes 229 Glossary of Hawaiian Words 239 References 247 Index 267
£76.50
Duke University Press Working Out Egypt
Book SynopsisDescribes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period.Trade Review“Working Out Egypt is an extraordinarily accomplished book. Wilson Chacko Jacob offers a highly original history of effendi masculinity based on a sophisticated interpretation of a vast, multisited archive. His analysis speaks directly to a number of concerns animating not only history but also feminist, cultural, and postcolonial studies. It encompasses colonial modernity and Egyptian specificity, masculinity and the quest for a normative social/sexual order, print culture and its collision with imperial globality, and the performative processes through which nations and their national imaginaries unfold.”—Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism“This is a pioneering book that probes the relationship between colonialism, nationalism, and masculinity in fresh and exciting ways. Through a careful examination of Egyptian and British popular and political culture of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Wilson Chacko Jacob tells a complex story of how Egyptian national subjectivity was crafted with and against colonial tropes. Working Out Egypt is essential reading for scholars and students of history, postcoloniality, sexuality, gender, subject formation, and Middle East studies.”—Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject “Working Out Egypt blends class-conscious social history with cutting edge reconceptualizations of biopolitical sovereignty and gender performativity – and it does so while avoiding the persistent Eurocentrism of many of the scholars influenced by Foucault and Agamben and shattering the frames of cultural relativism that have limited some recent queer and postcolonial scholarship. . . . Jacob’s monograph stands both as a remarkably original study of the gendering of colonial modernity and as an innovative contribution to theories of subjectivity.” -- Paul Amar * Social History *“Working Out Egypt is based on extensive archival research and a wide array of materials including British and Egyptian official documents, Olympic archives, biographies, magazine and newspaper articles, letters from readers and advice columns, novels, films, postcards, cartoons, and photographs. The book is framed by an equally impressive range of scholarly debates on empire, postcoloniality, nationalism, modernity, orientalism, liberalism, subject-formation, gender and sexuality, historiography, and representation…. This is a rich and multilayered book whose queries into the aporias of modern subjectivity have implications and relevance that extend beyond the case of modern Egypt. It will be an extremely valuable text to students as well as teachers of colonialism, postcoloniality, modernity, gender, and sexuality.” -- Nadia Guessous * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“Wilson Chacko Jacob’s insightful and analytically rich book... draws from Foucault’s later work to explore how caring for the self played a transformative role in constituting a new political subject in modern Egypt…. The novelty and sophistication of Working Out Egypt, however, lies not only in its bringing together of subject formation, the body, and masculinity. The book’s virtues also lie in its willingness to explore an understudied and underappreciated subject matter: modern sports and physical culture. Jacob illustrates that taking sports and physical culture seriously can provide a novel approach to the discourse of masculinity and its institutionalization.” -- Murat Cihan Yildiz * Arab Studies Journal *“Through his impeccable research, meticulous footnotes, and complex theoretical interventions…, Jacob has animated and enriched studies of Middle East masculinity in an unprecedented manner.” -- Hibba Abugideiri * American Historical Review *“Working Out Egypt stands as an innovative book on a central theme (masculinity) in postcolonial gender/sexuality studies…[A] highly successful effort that goes a long way toward diversifying scholarship on the colonial period in the Middle East and North Africa.” -- Mehmet Karabela * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Imagination: Projecting British Masculinity 27 2. Genealogy: Mustafa Kamil and Effendi Masculinity 44 3. Institution: Physical Culture and Self-Government 65 4. Association: Scouting, Freedom, Violence 92 5. Games: International Culture and Desiring Bodies 125 6. Communication: Sex, Gender, and Norms of Physical Culture 156 7. Fashion: Global Affects of Colonial Modernity 186 8. Knowledge: Death, Life, and the Sovereign Other 225 Notes 263 Bibliography 359 Index 409
£89.10
Duke University Press Working Out Egypt
Book SynopsisDescribes how attempts to create a modern Egyptian self free from the colonial gaze were enacted through discourses of gender and sexuality during the British colonial period.Trade Review“Working Out Egypt is an extraordinarily accomplished book. Wilson Chacko Jacob offers a highly original history of effendi masculinity based on a sophisticated interpretation of a vast, multisited archive. His analysis speaks directly to a number of concerns animating not only history but also feminist, cultural, and postcolonial studies. It encompasses colonial modernity and Egyptian specificity, masculinity and the quest for a normative social/sexual order, print culture and its collision with imperial globality, and the performative processes through which nations and their national imaginaries unfold.”—Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism“This is a pioneering book that probes the relationship between colonialism, nationalism, and masculinity in fresh and exciting ways. Through a careful examination of Egyptian and British popular and political culture of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, Wilson Chacko Jacob tells a complex story of how Egyptian national subjectivity was crafted with and against colonial tropes. Working Out Egypt is essential reading for scholars and students of history, postcoloniality, sexuality, gender, subject formation, and Middle East studies.”—Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject “Working Out Egypt blends class-conscious social history with cutting edge reconceptualizations of biopolitical sovereignty and gender performativity – and it does so while avoiding the persistent Eurocentrism of many of the scholars influenced by Foucault and Agamben and shattering the frames of cultural relativism that have limited some recent queer and postcolonial scholarship. . . . Jacob’s monograph stands both as a remarkably original study of the gendering of colonial modernity and as an innovative contribution to theories of subjectivity.” -- Paul Amar * Social History *“Working Out Egypt is based on extensive archival research and a wide array of materials including British and Egyptian official documents, Olympic archives, biographies, magazine and newspaper articles, letters from readers and advice columns, novels, films, postcards, cartoons, and photographs. The book is framed by an equally impressive range of scholarly debates on empire, postcoloniality, nationalism, modernity, orientalism, liberalism, subject-formation, gender and sexuality, historiography, and representation…. This is a rich and multilayered book whose queries into the aporias of modern subjectivity have implications and relevance that extend beyond the case of modern Egypt. It will be an extremely valuable text to students as well as teachers of colonialism, postcoloniality, modernity, gender, and sexuality.” -- Nadia Guessous * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“Wilson Chacko Jacob’s insightful and analytically rich book... draws from Foucault’s later work to explore how caring for the self played a transformative role in constituting a new political subject in modern Egypt…. The novelty and sophistication of Working Out Egypt, however, lies not only in its bringing together of subject formation, the body, and masculinity. The book’s virtues also lie in its willingness to explore an understudied and underappreciated subject matter: modern sports and physical culture. Jacob illustrates that taking sports and physical culture seriously can provide a novel approach to the discourse of masculinity and its institutionalization.” -- Murat Cihan Yildiz * Arab Studies Journal *“Through his impeccable research, meticulous footnotes, and complex theoretical interventions…, Jacob has animated and enriched studies of Middle East masculinity in an unprecedented manner.” -- Hibba Abugideiri * American Historical Review *“Working Out Egypt stands as an innovative book on a central theme (masculinity) in postcolonial gender/sexuality studies…[A] highly successful effort that goes a long way toward diversifying scholarship on the colonial period in the Middle East and North Africa.” -- Mehmet Karabela * Canadian Journal of History *Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Imagination: Projecting British Masculinity 27 2. Genealogy: Mustafa Kamil and Effendi Masculinity 44 3. Institution: Physical Culture and Self-Government 65 4. Association: Scouting, Freedom, Violence 92 5. Games: International Culture and Desiring Bodies 125 6. Communication: Sex, Gender, and Norms of Physical Culture 156 7. Fashion: Global Affects of Colonial Modernity 186 8. Knowledge: Death, Life, and the Sovereign Other 225 Notes 263 Bibliography 359 Index 409
£27.90
Duke University Press Affirmative Reaction
Book SynopsisAffirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States.Trade Review“Affirmative Reaction is a remarkable transvaluation of the terms by which we currently understand post-Fordist white masculinist hegemony. Not an unmarked norm but a particularized, and particularly abject, new identity category, white maleness is here submitted to fresh, riveting, lucid, and eye-opening analysis. An exemplary account of recent U.S. mediascapes.”—Eric Lott, author of The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual“In analyses that move deftly across economic, political, and affective registers, Hamilton Carroll draws out the dynamics of early-twenty-first-century backlash that have produced the popularity of texts as different as Brokeback Mountain and American Chopper, and draws our attention to the nuances to be found in unexpected places such as comic-book responses to 9/11. Affirmative Reaction can be read as a set of smart, related essays on a common theme, but it is also a tight, cohesive argument about recent developments in white U.S. masculinity. It will be welcomed by specialists in cultural studies, film studies, and gender studies, and it intervenes in the research conversation about the constitution of whiteness that continues in and across several fields and disciplines.”—Glenn Hendler, Director of the American Studies Program, Fordham University“Affirmative Reaction does a good job of critiquing privileged media archetypes. . . . This book will help forward an important dialogue about the contemporary status of white ethnicity, the masculinisation of class and nation, and the development of identity politics in the United States. . . .” -- Timothy Laurie * Critical Race and Whiteness Studies *“Carroll is at his best when he is drawing out the substance of his multifarious analyses in order to do some theory making about contemporary white masculinity. The most powerful moments of critical insight come when he skillfully jumps from Keifer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer in 24 to George W. Bush’s speeches on the War on Terror to Judith Butler and back to Bauer again, underscoring the connections between ideas that are neither obvious nor simple.” -- Patrick Ryan Grzanka * Men and Masculinities *“Carroll offers a theoretically sophisticated account of some novel recent manoeuvres of white masculine identity, which provides a powerful framework for the critical interrogation of the texts he explores, and many others.” -- James Zborowski * Journal of Gender Studies *“Carroll’s work makes a valuable contribution to literature on contemporary masculinity and its discontents. Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” -- D. E. Magill * Choice *“I found Carroll’s reading coherent, convincing and resonant in many respects with the ethnographies and qualitative interviewing projects on American whiteness with which I am more familiar. Addressing whiteness as contingent, heterogeneous and rooted in cultural, political and economic shifts is a project in which a number of scholars are already engaged, and Carroll’s text is a very welcome contribution to this field.” -- Steve Garner * Ethnic and Racial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: White Masculinities and the Politics of Representation 1 Part I. 9-11/24-7Affective Time and the War on Terror 1. Jack Bauer's Extraordinary Rendition: Neoliberal Melodrama and the Ethics of Torture 27 2. Future Perfect: "Everyday Heroes" and the New Exceptionalism 49 Part II. Embodying DifferenceWhiteness, Class, and the Postindustrial Subject 3. Men's Soaps: Automotive Television Programming and Contemporary Working-Class Masculinities 77 4. "My Skin Is It Startin' to Work in My Benefit Now?": Eminem's White Trash Aesthetic 101 Part III. Daddy's HomeFamily Melodrama and the Fictions of State 5. The Fighting Irish: Ethnic Whiteness and Million Dollar Baby 131 6. Romancing the Nation: Family Melodrama and the Sentimental Logics of Neoliberalism 157 Notes 181 Bibliography 201 Index 213
£22.49
MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Prizefighting and Civilization A Cultural
Book SynopsisExplores the processes by which boxing - once considered an outlandish purveyor of low culture - evolved in Cuba into a nationalized pillar of popular culture, a point of pride that transcends gender, race, and class.Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments Chapter One. Introduction: The Problem of Prizefighting in Cuba and Mexico Chapter Two. Prizefighting and Civilization in the Mexican Public Sphere in the Nineteenth Century Chapter Three. "Who Will Say We Are Not Progressing?": Cuba, Race, and Boxing in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Chapter Four. "Nigger Prizefighters" in Havana: The Transnational Spectacle of Race and Boxing Chapter Five. "The Revolution Came and Passed Out Gloves to Everyone" Chapter Six. Marching at the Head of Civilization Conclusion. Legacies of Domesticating the Exotic in Cuba and Mexico Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Redundant Masculinities
Book SynopsisRedundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called ''crisis of masculinity'' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men. Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard. Looks at how the labour market is changing. Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities. Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity. Trade Review"This book will appeal to a wide audience. It so adroitly sums up the state of play in a number of arenas: the contemporary UK economy and the future of work, current debates about gender and identity, the “crisis” of masculinity, and the emerging “problem” of white, working-class boys floundering to hold down jobs and identities that are increasingly ‘redundant’." --Rosemary Pringle, Professor of Sociology, University of Southampton, UK "Much has been written about the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' but rarely have its contours been charted in such as precise way and with such clear empathy for those at its cutting edge." --Peter Jackson, University of Sheffield, UK "I recommend , and sincerely hope, that this book is widely read, inside and outside academia." (Enviroment and Planning D: Society and Space) "Linda McDowell has produced a highly readable and accessible book, packed with rich and original empirical data, and written with a lightness of touch that belies the complexity of the theoretical debates pulled together within it. Redundant Masculinities combines an impressive synthesis of contemporary theoretical debates and perspectives, with a thorough empirical methodology to produce a first-class piece of applied research." (Work, Employment and Society) "McDowell offers a groundbreaking and often intensely sympathetic portrait of the ruptures and fragmentations of white, working class male hegemony under neoliberalism. Through deft use of narrative and analysis, she humanizes masculinity and masculine development in a manner heretofore rarely seen in sociological research." (Area 2005, vol 34/4)Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Tables. Preface. 1. Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class. 2. The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities. 3. The Contemporary Crisis Of Masculinity: It's Hard To Be(Come) A Man or The Problem of/for Boys. 4. Living on The Edge: Marginal Lives In Cambridge and Sheffield. 5. Leaving School: Pathways To Employment and Further Education. 6. Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners. 7. Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, The Excluded and Escape Attempts. 8. Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities. 9. Conclusions: What Is To Be Done About Boys? Postscript. Appendix 1: Research Methodology. Appendix 2: The Participants. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
£18.99
Johns Hopkins University Press Masculinity Lessons
Book SynopsisAs such, the book is ideal both as a primary text in women's and gender studies courses and as a reference for faculty and students outside the discipline applying gender issues to their teaching and research.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Engaging the Issue: Masculinity and Women's and Gender StudiesChapter 1. Making Masculinities: Book ReviewsChapter 2. Reflections on "Male Bashing"Chapter 3. Feminist Intentions: Race, Gender, and Power in a High School ClassroomChapter 4. The Biology and Philosophy of Race and Sex: A CourseChapter 5. Gender and Masculinity Texts: Consensus and Concerns for Feminist ClassroomsChapter 6. Student Responsiveness to Women's and Gender Studies Classes: The Importance of Initial Student Attitudes and Classroom RelationshipsPart II: Embodying Masculinity: Science and SocietyChapter 7. Reading Transgender, Rethinking Women's StudiesChapter 8. Biological Behavior? Hormones, Psychology, and SexChapter 9. Do Boys Have to Be Boys? Gender, Narrativity, and the John/Joan CaseChapter 10. Reading Sex and Temperament in Taiwan: Margaret Mead and Postwar Taiwanese FeminismPart III: Performing Social Expectations: The Domestic SceneChapter 11. "His Wife Seized His Prize and Cut It to Size": Folk and Popular Commentary on Lorena BobbittChapter 12. Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with ItChapter 13. "Non- Combatant's Shell- Shock": Trauma and Gender in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the NightChapter 14. Microcredit, Men, and MasculinityPart IV: Performing Social Expectations: The Public StageChapter 15. The Hillbilly Defense: Culturally Mediating U.S. Terror at Home and AbroadChapter 16. The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib: Hegemony, Spectacle, and the Global War on TerrorChapter 17. Uncle Sam Wants You to Trade, Invest, and Shop! Relocating the Battlefield in the Gendered Discourses of the Pre- and Early Post- 9/11 PeriodList of Contributors Index
£50.15
Johns Hopkins University Press The Overflowing of Friendship
Book SynopsisUsing an array of personal and public writings, The Overflowing of Friendship will transform our understanding of early American manhood as well as challenge us to reconsider the ways we think about gender in this period.Trade ReviewA sophisticated analysis of sources that have long confused historians. Offering a thoughtful window onto the world of early American men, it demonstrates that sympathy and affection were important qualities for the founding fathers. -- John Gilbert McCurdy New England Quarterly Path-breaking... Godbeer has staked out bold ground with this book. Some early Americanists will surely scoff at the notion that sentimentality was relevant even in the macho arena of state formation, just as historians of sexuality will freeze at the inference that there is no sexual attraction or intimacy between these men. That one book could successfully intervene with both the oldest historiographical and the newest theoretical question is no small feat, but rather one for which Godbeer deserves the appreciation and admiration of his fellow historians. Journal of the Early Republic His beautifully crafted book breaks important new ground by connecting the ideal of sympathetic fraternal love to the reconceptualization of politics and political community in revolutionary America. -- Anne S. Lombard American Historical Review Godbeer follows his earlier studies of sexuality in early America with this impressively erudite study of male friendship, as expressed in letters, journals, and other literary forms, from the Puritan days to the early republic of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. -- George E. Haggerty Register of the Kentucky Historical Society Godbeer's evocative narrative format allows the reader to enter a lost world of sentiment and even physical affection between men. Godbeer complicates, as others have before him, the modern binaries of sexuality, but he also argues that male friendship provides a new way of seeing familiar faces and analyzing familiar events of colonial British North American history in the eighteenth century. -- Lisa Wilson Journal of American History I know of no other work that conveys so articulately and plangently the crucial role that male love played in the Revolutionary period. -- David Greven College Literature Godbeer compels readers to rethink early American gender roles and to look beyond the modern tendency to see sex in all verbal and physical expressions of love. -- Christine E. Sears Eighteenth-Century Studies A welcome addition to the literature on the formation of the United States. Through rigorous research, creative use of sources, and deep engagement with the work of scholars before him, The Overflowing of Friendship is a thoughtful and new look at the relationships between men of a certain class, race, time, and place. -- David A. Reichard H-Law, H-Net Reviews Godbeer stakes out a judiciously considered position at some length, emphasizing the very different ways early modern individuals understood sexuality and the possibilities of physical yet nonerotic love... An extremely readable work. -- Anne G. Myles Common-PlaceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. "The Friend of My Bosom": A Philadelphian Love Story2. "A Settled Portion of My Happiness": Friendship, Sentiment, and Eighteenth-Century Manhood3. "The Best Blessing We Know": Male Love and Spiritual Communion in Early America4. "A Band of Brothers": Fraternal Love in the Continental Army5. "The Overflowing of Friendship": Friends, Brothers, and Citizens in a Republic of SympathyEpilogueNotesIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Man Kind
Book SynopsisA ground-breaking guide that provides men with tools to improve their mental health and well-being. Masculinity requires a redesign. Men exhibit higher rates of suicide, lower rates of help-seeking, higher rates of substance use and abuse, and higher rates of anger and violence. How can this change? In Man Kind, counseling psychologist Zachary Gerdes, PhD, provides a framework for improving men's mental health and well-being while redefining what it means to be masculine. Rather than following a traditional view of masculinity focused on stoicism, patriarchy, and self-reliance, Gerdes provides his LIFT modela road map to help men foster collaboration, understand when and how to utilize resources, and build mental resilience and flexibility. In this empowering book, Gerdes: helps men understand their thoughts and behaviors from a psychological perspective provides steps to help men change behaviors that are detrimental to their health and relationships outlines a model for healthy Table of ContentsForeword by Ronald Levant, PhDIntroductionPart I: LeverageChapter 1. The Lay of the LandChapter 2. Working Harder and SmarterChapter 3. Expanding the Wolfpack Part II: Intelligence and InsightChapter 4. EmotionalityChapter 5. Fight-or-Flight ClubPart III: FreedomChapter 6. Freedom from AddictionChapter 7. Sex, Relationships, and FreedomChapter 8. #MeToo and Manning UpChapter 9. Freedom from Implicit Bias and Identity DissonancePart IV: TruthChapter 10. Mental Health is Real HealthChapter 11. Biology and BeyondAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
£20.70
Temple University Press,U.S. Hope Is Cut
Book SynopsisA detailed look at young men in urban Ethiopia that reveals the impact of economic development and globalizationTrade Review"Hope Is Cut is a thoughtful, penetrating, and moving analysis of the lives of young men in Ethiopia and how their predicament sheds light on existing debates in social theory regarding time, space, temporal narratives of progress, social stratification, youth, and neoliberal capitalism in Africa. Mains’s book not only looks at an issue of great importance in the contemporary world; it also connects the study of youth to issues in broader social theory. Hope Is Cut should have a wide array of potential applications and a long shelf life." —Jennifer Cole, Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago, and author of Sex and Salvation: Imagining the Future in MadagascarTable of ContentsSeries Editors’ PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Youth, Hope, Stratification, and Time1 The Historical and Cultural Roots of Unemployment and Stratification in Urban Ethiopia2 Imagining Hopeful Futures through Khat and Film3 “We Live Like Chickens; We Are Just Eating and Sleeping”: Progress, Education, and the Temporal Struggles of Young Men4 Working toward Hope: Youth Unemployment, Occupational Status, and Values5 Hopeful Exchanges: Reciprocity and Changing Dimensions of Urban Stratification6 Spatial Fixes to Temporal Problems: Migration, Social Relationships, and WorkConclusion: Sustaining Hope in the Present and the Futurenotesreferencesindex
£22.49
Temple University Press,U.S. No More Invisible Man
Book SynopsisMaking visible the experiences of black professional men in white male-dominated occupationsTrade Review"Conducting in-depth interviews with black lawyers, engineers, doctors, and bankers, she studies their challenges, obstacles, opportunities, and interactions with colleagues. As expected, the subjects experienced racism, discrimination, and stereotyping at work...Though their upward mobility gave them solidarity with men in their social group, they no longer had an affinity with working-class blacks. This solid academic study enhances our understanding of the difficulties professional black men face in the work place." - Publishers Weekly "For those who delve into Wingfield's book, the one thing they are guaranteed to come away with is a greater appreciation for the fact that for Black men who work professional jobs, the work involves so much more than just the work itself... [No More Invisible Man] shows how entrenched and lingering racial stereotypes about the intelligence and aims of Black men often make the professional jobs they work much more complicated than they would otherwise be." - Diverse "What is unique about this book is the fact that very few studies focus on the issue of the black professional male across varied white-dominated professional spaces. Wingfield offers insight into the nuances involved in black male experiences at the professional level. Briefly, this study encapsulates how tricky it is to navigate the corridors of professional settings when confronted with age-old stereotypes. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice, July 2013 "Wingfield's adeptness at relating each aspect of her findings to the wider scholarship on tokenism is one of this book's main strengths... [T]his is a revealing and thought-provoking study... [that] provides some new insights into this somewhat neglected topic." - Ethnic and Racial Studies "No More Invisible Man is an engaging and compelling book. Through interviews with forty-two doctors, lawyers, engineers, and bankers, Adia Harvey Wingfield illuminates the experiences of black male professionals and makes critical contributions to our understandings of inequalities in the workplace... One of Harvey Wingfield's strongest theoretical contributions is her documentation of the significance of black professional men's relationships with colleagues and potential mentors... Another significant theoretical contribution is Harvey Wingfield's description of the diversity of black professional men's responses to women in their male-dominated workplaces... [T]he book is superb. Harvey Wingfield's writing is fantastic and a pleasure to read... She walks the reader clearly and explicitly through the questions she brings to current theories, her comparisons between what theories predict and what her data reveal, and the theoretical and practical conclusions she draws... No More Invisible Man is a successful addition to Harvey Wingfield's legacy - and to intersectionality scholarship." - Gender & Society "Harvey makes an important contribution to the workplace literature, offering her concept of partial tokenization to a paradigm that fails to fully account for the experiences of professional black men... Harvey advance[s] current scholarship by focusing on groups that have until now only received scant attention and make clear the ways race and racism act as an impediment in the twenty-first-century workplace." - Sociological ForumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Tokenism Reassessed 2 The General Experience of Partial Tokenization 3 Interacting with Women in the Workplace 4 Other Men in the Workplace 5 Black Men and Masculinity 6 Emotional Performance Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£56.95
Temple University Press,U.S. No More Invisible Man
Book SynopsisMaking visible the experiences of black professional men in white male-dominated occupationsTrade Review"Conducting in-depth interviews with black lawyers, engineers, doctors, and bankers, she studies their challenges, obstacles, opportunities, and interactions with colleagues. As expected, the subjects experienced racism, discrimination, and stereotyping at work...Though their upward mobility gave them solidarity with men in their social group, they no longer had an affinity with working-class blacks. This solid academic study enhances our understanding of the difficulties professional black men face in the work place." - Publishers Weekly "For those who delve into Wingfield's book, the one thing they are guaranteed to come away with is a greater appreciation for the fact that for Black men who work professional jobs, the work involves so much more than just the work itself... [No More Invisible Man] shows how entrenched and lingering racial stereotypes about the intelligence and aims of Black men often make the professional jobs they work much more complicated than they would otherwise be." - Diverse "What is unique about this book is the fact that very few studies focus on the issue of the black professional male across varied white-dominated professional spaces. Wingfield offers insight into the nuances involved in black male experiences at the professional level. Briefly, this study encapsulates how tricky it is to navigate the corridors of professional settings when confronted with age-old stereotypes. Summing Up: Recommended." - Choice, July 2013 "Wingfield's adeptness at relating each aspect of her findings to the wider scholarship on tokenism is one of this book's main strengths... [T]his is a revealing and thought-provoking study... [that] provides some new insights into this somewhat neglected topic." - Ethnic and Racial Studies "No More Invisible Man is an engaging and compelling book. Through interviews with forty-two doctors, lawyers, engineers, and bankers, Adia Harvey Wingfield illuminates the experiences of black male professionals and makes critical contributions to our understandings of inequalities in the workplace... One of Harvey Wingfield's strongest theoretical contributions is her documentation of the significance of black professional men's relationships with colleagues and potential mentors... Another significant theoretical contribution is Harvey Wingfield's description of the diversity of black professional men's responses to women in their male-dominated workplaces... [T]he book is superb. Harvey Wingfield's writing is fantastic and a pleasure to read... She walks the reader clearly and explicitly through the questions she brings to current theories, her comparisons between what theories predict and what her data reveal, and the theoretical and practical conclusions she draws... No More Invisible Man is a successful addition to Harvey Wingfield's legacy - and to intersectionality scholarship." - Gender & SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Tokenism Reassessed 2 The General Experience of Partial Tokenization 3 Interacting with Women in the Workplace 4 Other Men in the Workplace 5 Black Men and Masculinity 6 Emotional Performance Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index
£19.79
Temple University Press,U.S. Conceiving Masculinity
Book SynopsisPuts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. This book details how and why men embrace medical technologies and treatment for infertility.Trade Review"[A] compassionate and substantive analysis of male infertility. Her ethnographic work is two-pronged: first, it reveals the history of male infertility and the responses of modern medicine; second, it studies the ways in which this oft-hidden precinct of medicine works overtime to bolster the masculinity of its patients [...] Barnes weaves a bounty of analytic threads into a compelling ethnography whose interviews with infertile men and their (mostly male) doctors make the story come richly alive in this overdue study." - Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index
£63.75
Temple University Press,U.S. Conceiving Masculinity
Book SynopsisPuts the world of male infertility under the microscope to examine how culturally pervasive notions of gender shape our understanding of disease, and how disease impacts our personal ideas about gender. This book details how and why men embrace medical technologies and treatment for infertility.Trade Review"[A] compassionate and substantive analysis of male infertility. Her ethnographic work is two-pronged: first, it reveals the history of male infertility and the responses of modern medicine; second, it studies the ways in which this oft-hidden precinct of medicine works overtime to bolster the masculinity of its patients [...] Barnes weaves a bounty of analytic threads into a compelling ethnography whose interviews with infertile men and their (mostly male) doctors make the story come richly alive in this overdue study." - Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments 1 Mobilizing Gay Rights under Authoritarianism 2 Legal Restrictions, Political Norms, and Being Gay in Singapore 3 Timorous Beginnings 4 Cyber Organizing 5 Transition 6 Coming Out 7 Mobilizing in the Open 8 Pragmatic Resistance, Law, and Social Movements Appendix A: Research Design and Methods Appendix B: Study Respondents: Singapore’s Gay Activists Appendix C: Singapore’s Gay Movement Organizations and Major Events Notes References Index
£22.79
Temple University Press,U.S. The ManNot
Book SynopsisThe Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Tommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the Black male as a victim, oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore,is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of Black males that could challenge the existing accounts of Black men and boys desiring the power of white men who oppress them that has been proliferated throughout academic research across disciplines. Curry argues that Black men struggle with death and suicide, as well as abuse and rape, and their genred existence deserves study and theorization. This book offers intellectual, historical, sociological, and psychological evidence that the analysis of patriarchy offered by mainstream feminism (including Black feminism) does not yet fully understand the role that homoeroticism, sexual violence, and vulnerability play in the deaths and lives of Black males. Curry challengesTrade Review"Tommy Curry has written a cool, brilliant defense of the men who are the pariahs of American society: the ones who, regardless of class, find themselves at the bottom of every hierarchy; the ones whose demographics and statistics in terms of the criminal justice, health care, and other systems are abysmal. Countless billions have been made from the portrayal of Black males as Boogeymen. The Man-Not is heavy work, but the general reader will find its arguments well worth the time and effort. This book is controversial. Those who've dogged and stalked Black men in the academy and popular culture for the past few decades are sure to have their critical knives out. I know. But it's rare for an American intellectual to step up, regardless of the fallout. This book is the one that I've been waiting for. Curry has taken a bullet for the brothers."—Ishmael Reed, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and Visiting Scholar at the California College of the Arts"In a bold—indeed, fearless—intervention in the ongoing race/gender/sexual orientation debates, Tommy Curry challenges the cozy consensus among self-conceived progressives in the humanities. The oppression of black men has been conceptually erased, he argues, by theoretical frameworks indifferent to the social science data that refute them. Sure to ignite a firestorm of controversy, The Man-Not is an impassioned protest against orthodoxies, both mainstream and radical, white and black. It is required reading for anyone interested in understanding oppression or having unquestioned assumptions put to the test." —Charles W. Mills, Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center "The Man-Not introduces a progressive black male studies that is decidedly nonfeminist, and the book demands a radical rethinking of the category of 'gender' itself.... It is impressive to watch Curry build arguments and the seamless manner in which the philosopher moves between sources across disciplines.... (It is) refreshing to read a book that has little time for academic pleasantries and is so eager to transcend the boundaries of traditional gender theorizing.... (R)eaders from diverse academic backgrounds can still learn much in its pages." —Men and Masculinities"This book reads as a spiritual successor to W.E.B. Dubois's 1906 keynote speech delivered during the second annual Niagara Movement Conference.... Curry echoes the same sentiment that Black men have been subjugated due to systemic violence, denial of rights, and oppression. The author is open and candid that this is as much an emotional book as an academic one.... It is an impassioned plea for justice and legitimation that is often read in books but rarely felt.... The book is an incredible piece of scholarship for Black Male Studies and completely convincing in its claim that there is not only a need for Black Male Studies but a need to study it across multiple disciplines, particularly at the intersection of race, masculinity, law, politics, and class. His ability to deliver scholarship that is part literature review, part critique, part analysis, and part biography makes this book an important piece of work set to help steer Black Male Studies into a new, exciting direction."—Sociology of Race and Ethnicity"Curry offers a provocative discussion of black masculinity by critiquing both the social and academic treatment of killings of black men and boys in the US. The author forces readers to reevaluate the interpretations and stereotypes the media uses. He argues that gender studies has disadvantaged black men by imposing and supporting negative historical stereotypes and ignoring the diversity of black boys and men and by falsely aligning black masculinity with white masculinity.... The present book is an attempt to fill the gap by presenting a philosophical theory on black masculinity that Curry claims is nonexistent in philosophy.... (A)n excellent basis for discussions of the academic constructs of legitimacy in research. Many readers may find this book an uncomfortable read, and that is the very reason it should be read....Summing Up: Highly recommended." —Choice"The Man-Not is an impressive book, sure to upset scholars invested in static gender theory based on racial myths reproduced in the academy in lieu of empirical debates addressing the impossibility of Black patriarchy amid anti-Black achievement policies that disproportionately affect Black males.... The Man-Not exemplifies the deep, risky criticism that all scholars should aspire to, particularly as Curry’s call for the institutionalization of Black male studies is compelling.... Curry’s argument is contentious yet indispensable amid the oftentimes deadly systemic oppressions that Black males encounter."--Women's Studies in Communication
£69.70
University of Toronto Press Dancing Boys
Book SynopsisDancing Boys is one of the few scholarly works that demystify the largely unknown challenges of adolescent males in dance.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword Introduction Chapter one: I am a Dancer Chapter two: Boys in Dance Chapter three: Where Are the Dancing Boys? Chapter four: The Voices of the Dancing Boys Chapter five: Transformation Chapter six: Invisible Barriers Chapter seven: Dance Experience & Class Chapter eight: Show Time Chapter nine: Dancing Through Our Lives Chapter ten: Video Documentary on Adolescent Male Dance Students References Endnotes
£23.39
University of Toronto Press Dancing Boys
Book SynopsisDancing Boys is one of the few scholarly works that demystify the largely unknown challenges of adolescent males in dance.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Foreword Introduction Chapter one: I am a Dancer Chapter two: Boys in Dance Chapter three: Where Are the Dancing Boys? Chapter four: The Voices of the Dancing Boys Chapter five: Transformation Chapter six: Invisible Barriers Chapter seven: Dance Experience & Class Chapter eight: Show Time Chapter nine: Dancing Through Our Lives Chapter ten: Video Documentary on Adolescent Male Dance Students References Endnotes
£45.90
Bristol University Press Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
Book SynopsisIn this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, the UK and the US demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in Nordic countries through family and social policies, and how these shape and influence the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods.Trade Review“At a time with a strong political focus on the falling birth rates, the book underscores the importance of men’s attitudes when attempting to understand what determines fertility rates.” Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK)"This book is highly recommended to all scholars as well as students in the field of comparative family policy, parenting and fatherhood studies." Nordic Social Work Research"A fascinating, wide-ranging and critical look at fatherhood in the Nordic world, covering home, work and social policy, addressing growing diversity in these countries and celebrating a vibrant research scene" Emeritus Professor Peter Moss, Institute of Education University of London."This comprehensive volume provides rich and theoretically grounded empirical analyses of Nordic policies and practices." Professor Ann Orloff, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard; Theme 1: Fathers, families and family policies; Fathering: the influence of ideational factors for male fertility behaviour ~ Tine Rostgaard and Rasmus Juul Møberg; Nordic family law: new framework, new fatherhoods ~ Hrefna Friðriksdóttir; Fathers rights to family cash benefits in Nordic countries ~ Mia Hakovirta, Anita Haataja, Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard; Theme 2: Fathers in everyday life: culture, work and care; Time use of Finnish fathers: do institutions matter? ~ Minna Ylikännö, Hannu Pääkkönen and Mia Hakovirta; Parental leave and classed fathering practices in Norway ~ Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande; Negotiating leave in the workplace: leave practices and masculinity constructions among Danish fathers ~ Lotte Bloksgaard; Gender regime, attitudes towards childcare and actual involvement in childcare among fathers ~ Mikael Nordenmark; Theme 3: Constructing fatherhood in different family settings; Fathering as a learning process: breaking new ground in familiar territory ~ Steen Baagøe Nielsen and Allan Westerling; Minority ethnic men and fatherhood in a Danish context ~ Anika Liversage; Making space for fatherhood in gay men’s lives in Norway ~ Arnfinn J. Andersen; The long-term impacts of early paternal involvement in childcare in Denmark: what happens after nuclear family dissolution ~ Mai Heide Ottosen; Theme 4: Caring fathers and paid parental leave policies; The coming and going of the father’s quota in Denmark: consequences for fathers’ parental leave take-up ~ Tine Rostgaard and Mette Lausten; Policy goals and obstacles for fathers’ parental leave in Finland ~ Minna Salmi and Johanna Lammi-Taskula; Caring fathers and parental leave in prosperous times and times of crisis: the case of Iceland ~ Guðný Björk Eydal and Ingólfur V. Gíslason; Parental leave use for different fathers: a study of the impact of three Swedish parental leave reforms ~ Ann-Zofie Duvander and Mats Johansson; Theme 5: International reflections on findings; Parental leave and fathers: extending and deepening the knowledge base ~ Janet Gornick; Nordic fathers: tracking diversity and complexity ~ Margaret O’Brien; Conclusions: ‘What is constructed can be transformed’ ~ Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard;
£77.39
Bristol University Press Fatherhood in the Nordic Welfare States
Book SynopsisIn this topical book, expert scholars from the Nordic countries, the UK and the US demonstrate how modern fatherhood is supported in Nordic countries through family and social policies, and how these shape and influence the images, roles and practices of fathers in a diversity of family settings and variations of fatherhoods.Trade Review“At a time with a strong political focus on the falling birth rates, the book underscores the importance of men’s attitudes when attempting to understand what determines fertility rates.” Nordic Information on Gender (NIKK)"This book is highly recommended to all scholars as well as students in the field of comparative family policy, parenting and fatherhood studies." Nordic Social Work Research"A fascinating, wide-ranging and critical look at fatherhood in the Nordic world, covering home, work and social policy, addressing growing diversity in these countries and celebrating a vibrant research scene" Emeritus Professor Peter Moss, Institute of Education University of London."This comprehensive volume provides rich and theoretically grounded empirical analyses of Nordic policies and practices." Professor Ann Orloff, Northwestern University, USTable of ContentsIntroduction ~ Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard; Theme 1: Fathers, families and family policies; Fathering: the influence of ideational factors for male fertility behaviour ~ Tine Rostgaard and Rasmus Juul Møberg; Nordic family law: new framework, new fatherhoods ~ Hrefna Friðriksdóttir; Fathers rights to family cash benefits in Nordic countries ~ Mia Hakovirta, Anita Haataja, Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard; Theme 2: Fathers in everyday life: culture, work and care; Time use of Finnish fathers: do institutions matter? ~ Minna Ylikännö, Hannu Pääkkönen and Mia Hakovirta; Parental leave and classed fathering practices in Norway ~ Berit Brandth and Elin Kvande; Negotiating leave in the workplace: leave practices and masculinity constructions among Danish fathers ~ Lotte Bloksgaard; Gender regime, attitudes towards childcare and actual involvement in childcare among fathers ~ Mikael Nordenmark; Theme 3: Constructing fatherhood in different family settings; Fathering as a learning process: breaking new ground in familiar territory ~ Steen Baagøe Nielsen and Allan Westerling; Minority ethnic men and fatherhood in a Danish context ~ Anika Liversage; Making space for fatherhood in gay men’s lives in Norway ~ Arnfinn J. Andersen; The long-term impacts of early paternal involvement in childcare in Denmark: what happens after nuclear family dissolution ~ Mai Heide Ottosen; Theme 4: Caring fathers and paid parental leave policies; The coming and going of the father’s quota in Denmark: consequences for fathers’ parental leave take-up ~ Tine Rostgaard and Mette Lausten; Policy goals and obstacles for fathers’ parental leave in Finland ~ Minna Salmi and Johanna Lammi-Taskula; Caring fathers and parental leave in prosperous times and times of crisis: the case of Iceland ~ Guðný Björk Eydal and Ingólfur V. Gíslason; Parental leave use for different fathers: a study of the impact of three Swedish parental leave reforms ~ Ann-Zofie Duvander and Mats Johansson; Theme 5: International reflections on findings; Parental leave and fathers: extending and deepening the knowledge base ~ Janet Gornick; Nordic fathers: tracking diversity and complexity ~ Margaret O’Brien; Conclusions: ‘What is constructed can be transformed’ ~ Guðný Björk Eydal and Tine Rostgaard;
£29.44
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina White Mans Work Race and MiddleClass Mobility
Book SynopsisChronicles the evolving narratives that linked whiteness with middle-class mobility and middle-class manhood. In doing so, Joseph Jewell addresses a key issue in the historical sociology of race: how racialized groups demarcate, defend, and alter social positions in overlapping hierarchies of race, class, and gender.Trade ReviewJewell's concise and accessible prose style achieves a rare feat – makingpotentially complex themes comprehensible without sacrificing any academic rigour . . . . A cautionary study on the way in which dominant cultures posses the power of narrative-creation in ways that can exclude minority groups from social and economic mobility. Jewell's book also vividly demonstrates how such attitudes and approaches end up creating boundaries that restrict social change, and reinforce the dominance of one group at the expense of others – a pattern that can have consequences generations into the future."—Ethnic & Racial Studies
£73.50
New York University Press Before Chicano
Book SynopsisUncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity In the first ever book-length study of Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions of citizenship and manhood developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The year 1848 saw both the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the U.S. Mexican War and the year of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first organized conference on women's rights in the United States. These concurrent events signaled new ways of thinking about U.S. citizenship, and placing these historical moments into conversation with the archive of Mexican American print culture, Varon offers an expanded temporal frame for Mexican Americans as long-standing participants in U.S. national projects. Pulling from a wide-variety of familiar and lesser-known worksfrom fiction and newspapers to governmentTrade ReviewVaron examines an emerging hybrid synthesis of U.S. and Mexican republicanism as well as the instabilities inherent to a malecentered conception of citizenship. -- Society for US Intellectual HistoryBrings to bear archival work and print culture studies to uncover and analyze the cultural, historical, and literary texts involved in the making of Mexican American manhood and its correlation to notions of citizenship. Dr. Varon studies Spanish-language newspapers and political proclamations; fugitive narratives and short-story collections (some here analyzed at length for the first time); under-studied memoirs and long-ignored novels; and canonical figures in early Chicana/o literary histories. Dr. Varon expertly combines several fieldsincluding American and Critical Race studies, recovery and archival work, and American literary scholarship and Chicana/o and Latino/a studiesto render the books study of the past presciently critical of contemporary debates about immigration, citizenship, and the presumed rights of Mexican Americans. -- Jesse Alemán,co-editor of The Latino Nineteenth CenturyVarons groundbreaking, beautifully written literary and intellectual history of Mexican-American manhood illuminates the ways in which Mexican Americans made claims to the public sphere by engaging with questions of citizenship, racialization, and transnational imagined communities. The book seamlessly brings together the rich literatures on feminism, nationalism, political theory, and queer theory in order to offer a brilliant, timely, and compelling historical narrative of belonging. -- Raúl Coronado,author of A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print CultureWhile other authors, like J. F. Perea, George Fredrickson, Jeanne Powers, and Eladio Gómez, have studied questions of Mexican American citizenship prior to the Chicano movement, Varon’s creative approach focusing on manhood, as well as the breadth of the period studied, constitute a welcome contribution to the development of knowledge in this field of study. * Chiricú Journal *
£26.59
New York University Press Before Chicano
Book SynopsisUncovers the long history of how Latino manhood was integral to the formation of Latino identity In the first ever book-length study of Latino manhood before the Civil Rights Movement, Before Chicano examines Mexican American print culture to explore how conceptions of citizenship and manhood developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The year 1848 saw both the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the U.S. Mexican War and the year of the Seneca Falls Convention, the first organized conference on women's rights in the United States. These concurrent events signaled new ways of thinking about U.S. citizenship, and placing these historical moments into conversation with the archive of Mexican American print culture, Varon offers an expanded temporal frame for Mexican Americans as long-standing participants in U.S. national projects. Pulling from a wide-variety of familiar and lesser-known worksfrom fiction and newspapers to governmentTrade ReviewVaron examines an emerging hybrid synthesis of U.S. and Mexican republicanism as well as the instabilities inherent to a malecentered conception of citizenship. -- Society for US Intellectual HistoryBrings to bear archival work and print culture studies to uncover and analyze the cultural, historical, and literary texts involved in the making of Mexican American manhood and its correlation to notions of citizenship. Dr. Varon studies Spanish-language newspapers and political proclamations; fugitive narratives and short-story collections (some here analyzed at length for the first time); under-studied memoirs and long-ignored novels; and canonical figures in early Chicana/o literary histories. Dr. Varon expertly combines several fieldsincluding American and Critical Race studies, recovery and archival work, and American literary scholarship and Chicana/o and Latino/a studiesto render the books study of the past presciently critical of contemporary debates about immigration, citizenship, and the presumed rights of Mexican Americans. -- Jesse Alemán,co-editor of The Latino Nineteenth CenturyVarons groundbreaking, beautifully written literary and intellectual history of Mexican-American manhood illuminates the ways in which Mexican Americans made claims to the public sphere by engaging with questions of citizenship, racialization, and transnational imagined communities. The book seamlessly brings together the rich literatures on feminism, nationalism, political theory, and queer theory in order to offer a brilliant, timely, and compelling historical narrative of belonging. -- Raúl Coronado,author of A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print CultureWhile other authors, like J. F. Perea, George Fredrickson, Jeanne Powers, and Eladio Gómez, have studied questions of Mexican American citizenship prior to the Chicano movement, Varon’s creative approach focusing on manhood, as well as the breadth of the period studied, constitute a welcome contribution to the development of knowledge in this field of study. * Chiricú Journal *
£73.80
New York University Press Gods Gangs
Book SynopsisIlluminates how Latino men recover from gang life through involvement in urban, faith-based organizations.Trade Review"His scholarly, thoughtful approach provides an infusion of spirituality and masculinity as essential variables from which each gang member may reach toward enlightenment, and a foundation on which one may build citizenship. Flores quite accurately identifies and discusses the critical variable of the historic treatment, interpretation, and labeling of Hispanics and their relationship to economic limitations and class creation, which is so glaring in Los Angeles. The author explains that within the barrio communities, the lawlessness that seems to have become one of the most resilient defining characterizations is the result of male resistance and struggle for respect and status. The redirecting of that masculinity and respected identity in the community, in concert with a spirituality based effort to escape gang life, is the essence of this well-developed work. Strongly encouraged for sociology and social work collections.Summing up: Highly recommended." -- R.M. Seklecki * Choice *"God's Gangsis studiously steeped in a wide range of sociological discourses and will be of interest to scholars of religion with secondary interests in urban sociology, immigration, gender performance, embodiment, and the interwoven phenomena of recovery and mass incarceration." * Sociology of Religion *"Los Angeles, with its dubious title as the 'gang capital' of the U.S., has a much-studied history of gangsparticularly Latino gangsthat stretches back to the Great Depression. Flores contributes to this history in an important way with his focus on disengagement from gangs, what he terms 'gang recovery,' an area of gang research that has exploded in just the last 5 years . . . .God's Gangsinjects some much-needed thick description into an evolving literature, contributing to a growing chorus of contemporary Latino youth and gang ethnographies in the U.S., and in doing so, shines a light on accomplishing masculinity and immigrant assimilation in theU.S." * Crime, Law, and Social Change *"Flores's work should be commended for bringing urban ministries and gang recovery to the fore of gang, immigration, religion, gender, and criminal justice scholarship. Flores's fresh analysis of embodied masculinity makes a particularly strong contribution to research on urban poverty and crime." * American Journal of Sociology *"With 152,000 documented gang members in Los Angeles, understanding how to address and facilitate the integration of former gang members into society is crucial, timely, and much needed. This books documentary efforts make a strong contribution to conceptualizing how small, intimate, personally caring organizations based in faith traditions, can transform lives, cultures, and societies." * Journal of Jesuit Studies *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Latino Crime Threat: A Century of Race, Marginality, and Public Policy in Los Angeles 2. Into the Underclass or Out of the Barrio? Immigrant Integration in Latino Los Angeles 3. Recovery from Gang Life: Two Models of Faith and Reintegration 4. Reformed Barrio Masculinity: Eight Cases of Recovery from Gang Life 5. Masculinity and the Podium: Discourse in Gang Recovery 6. From Shaved to Saved: Embodied Gang Recovery Conclusion Notes References Index About the Author
£22.79
University of Nebraska Press Salvific Manhood
Book Synopsis2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSalvific Manhoodforegrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin’s six novels.Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin’s men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences.InSalvific Manhood, Gibson offers a new and compelling way to understand the hidden connections between Baldwin’s novels.Thematically daring and theoretically provocative, he presents a queering of salvation, a nuanced approach thatviewsredemption through the lenses of gender and sexuality. Exploring how fraternal crises develop out of sociopolitical forces and conditions,Salvific Manhoodtheorizes a spatiality of manhood, where spaces in between men are erased through expressions of intimacy and love.PosTrade Review"The author finds an edifying connection between the sanctuary the black church offered and the potential space of intimacy the body offered. Gibson engages in close readings of five seismic novels in the Baldwin canon, masterfully walking readers through the journey of John's forgotten birthday in Go Tell It on the Mountain and the streets of David's Paris in Giovanni's Room. This excellent study may interest those studying religion as well those in the disciplines of literature and cultural studies."—A. P. Pennino, Choice“Ernest L. Gibson III has given us a beautifully crafted, truly imaginative, and fresh approach to James Baldwin’s work. . . . [It] will be of interest to students and scholars of literary and cultural studies, queer studies, and even religious studies. This is truly an incredibly rich and creative work of scholarship that is not to be missed!”—Dwight A. McBride, coeditor of the James Baldwin Review “Salvific Manhood pioneers a timely and provocative discussion of James Baldwin’s revolutionary ideas on black masculinity. Professor Gibson reenvisions Baldwin’s novels through fraternal bonds between lovers, kin, and friends, elaborating politics of salvation that simultaneously trouble and bridge spirituality and the erotic.”—Magdalena J. Zaborowska, author of Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in FranceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: In Search of the Fraternal 1. Wrestling for Salvation: Denial, Longing, and the Beauty of Brotherhood in Go Tell It on the Mountain 2. Flight, Freedom, and Abjection: Fractured Manhood and Tragic Love in Giovanni’s Room 3. Alone in the Absurd: The Trope of Tragic Black Manhood in Another Country 4. Theatrics of Mask-ulinity: Radical Male Intimacy and Black Power in Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone 5. Concrete Jungles and the Carceral: Exploring Confinement and Imprisonment in If Beale Street Could Talk Conclusion: Somewhere in That Wreckage Notes Bibliography Index
£31.50
