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Constructing masculinity / edited by Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson ; picture essay by Carrie Mae Weems.
- Title
- Constructing masculinity / edited by Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson ; picture essay by Carrie Mae Weems.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 1995.
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- Description
- 342 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This text questions society's normative standards of the masculine and contemplates the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes. It examines the ways in which representations of masculinity in the media and the arts produce, challenge and shape notions of the masculine.
- Series Statement
- Discussions in contemporary culture ; [no. 11]
- Uniform Title
- Discussions in contemporary culture ; [no. 11].
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Note
- Series numbering provided by vendor.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-330) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- "Gosh, Boy George, you must be awfully secure in your masculinity!" / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Melancholy gender/refused identification / Judith Butler -- Social construction theory and sexuality / Carole S. Vance -- The Aryan boy who pissed on my father's head / Wayne Koestenbaum -- Are you a man or a mouse? / Homi K. Bhabha -- Male trouble / Abigail Solomon-Godeau -- Eastwood bound / Paul Smith -- Doing it for daddy / Bell Hooks -- Schopenhauer's beard / Michael Taussig -- Loving men / Leo Bersani -- How to build a man / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Law-and-order science / Philomena Mariani -- Gene wars / Simon Watney -- The great white dude / Andrew Ross -- Damaged men : thoughts on Kafka's body / Sander L. Gilman -- The race-charged relationship of Black men and Black women / Derrick Bell -- Minority men, misery, and the marketplace of ideas / Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic -- "Masculinity," "the rule of law," and other legal fictions / Kendall Thomas -- Mediations on masculinity / Patricia J. Williams -- Masculinity, sexism, and censorship law / Marjorie Heins -- What's a straight white man to do? / George Yúdice -- The decline of patriarchy / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Burdens of representation, burdens of responsibility / Richard Fung -- Masculinity in Black popular culture : could it be that political correctness is the problem? / Michele Wallace -- My masculinity / Stanley Arnowitz.
- ISBN
- 0415910528
- 0415910536 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^95022214^//r97
- OCLC
- 32700156
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library