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Book SynopsisShowcasing key theorists, including Kimmel, Silverman, Dyer and Boyarin, this reader seeks to re-conceptualize the masculinity studies debate along the axes of empire, borders, representations, the social sciences, and eroticism and across such diverse fields as film, anthropology, and sociology.
Trade Review"These essays are, individually, insightful and often arresting. Taken together, they are prismatic, illuminating this new interdisciplinary area of scholarly inquiry. With this collection, masculinity studies comes of age as an academic field."
Michael Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook "This anthology identifies the need in contemporary cultural studies for more elaborate understandings of the relations of various masculinities to power, nation, empire, violence, race, class, and embodiment. The editors must be commended for producing a volume which answers to this need and brings together an eclectic, multidisciplinary, and wide-ranging collection of essays in response. Bound to become required reading in gender studies and beyond!" University of California at San Diego
"The instructor-friendly anthology of 22 previously published essays dating primarily from 1970 to 2000, is destined to become a standard in courses on gender and masculinity. Rachel Adams and David Savran have chosen fascinating articles that will be both challenging and accessible to university students at all levels" Journal of Contemporary European Studies
"Adams and Savran provide extrcta from a number of key sources that lay the foundations for understanding masculinities through a cultural studies oriented approach" Sexualities
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Editors’ Acknowledgments x
Introduction 1
Rachel Adams and David Savran
Part I: Eroticism 9
Introduction 9
1.Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes 9
Sigmund Freud
2.Masochism and Male Subjectivity 14
Kaja Silverman
3.Subject Honor, Object Shame 41
Roger Lancaster
4.The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens 69
David Halperin
Part II: Social Sciences 77
Introduction
5.Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 80
Clifford Geertz
6.Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity 99
Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell, and John Lee
7.The Fraternal Social Contract 119
Carole Pateman
8.The Birth of the Self-made Man 135
Michael Kimmel
Part III: Representations 153
Introduction 153
9.The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic 157
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
10.The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism 175
King-Kok Cheung
11.Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary 188
Kobena Mercer
12.Bonds of (In)Difference 201
Robyn Wiegman
Part IV: Empire and Modernity 227
Introduction 227
13.The Fact of Blackness 232
Frantz Fanon
14.The History of Masculinity 245
R. W. Connell
15.The White Man's Muscles 262
Richard Dyer
16.What Does a Jew Want? or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus 274
Daniel Boyarin
17.The Economy of Colonial Desire 292
Revathi Krishnaswamy
18.Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada 318
Julie Peteet
Part V: Borders 337
Introduction 337
19.Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England 337
Alan Bray
20.An Introduction to Female Masculinity 355
Judith Halberstam
21."That Sexe Which Prevaileth" 375
Anne Fausto-Sterling
22.The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 389
Don Kulick
Index 408
