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Book SynopsisTroubled Masculinities is an important contribution to the growing field of masculinity studies and a valuable assessment of the nature of gender in a modern Canadian urban setting. The collected essays will appeal to a wide audience, from social scientists and artists to activists and general readers.
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One : The Mestizo refuses to confess: Masculinity from the standpoint of a Latin American Man in Toronto Chapter Two : Yearning to break silence: Reflections on the functions of male silence Chapter Three: Instruction in the art of the masculine: The art of Daryl Vocat Chapter Four: Troubling role models: Seeing racialization in the discourse relating to 'corrective agents ' for Black males Chapter Five: Queering Asian masculinities and transnationalism: Implications for anti-oppression and consciousness raising Chapter Six: "Keeping it real": The art of the masculine Chapter Seven: Dancing without a floor: The artist's politic of queer club space Chapter Eight: Boy to the Power of Three: Toronto's Drag Kings Chapter Nine: Eyes of Excess: the darkness and the fire at the centre of growing - up male in Toronto in the 1950s and 1960s Notes
