Constructing Masculinity

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Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson
Psychology Press, 1995 - Art - 342 pages
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.
 

Contents

MICHAEL GOVAN Note on the Series
1
EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK Gosh Boy George You Must Be Awfully Secure
11
FOUR
17
JUDITH BUTLER Melancholy GenderRefused Identification
21
CAROLE S VANCE Social Construction Theory and Sexuality
37
WAYNE KOESTENBAUM The Aryan Boy Who Pissed on My Fathers Head
49
HOMI K BHABHA Are You a Man or a Mouse?
57
ABIGAIL SOLOMONGODEAU Male Trouble
69
MASCULINITY AND THE RULE OF
190
DERRICK BELL The RaceCharged Relationship of Black Men and Black Women
193
RICHARD DELGADO Minority Men Misery and the Marketplace AND JEAN STEFANCIC of Ideas
211
KENDALL THOMAS Masculinity the Rule of Law and Other Legal Fictions
221
PATRICIA J WILLIAMS Meditations on Masculinity
238
MARJORIE HEINS Masculinity Sexism and Censorship
250
MALE SUBJECTIVITY AND RESPONSIBILITY 5645
264
GEORGE YUDICE Whats a Straight White Man to
267

PAUL SMITH Eastwood Bound
77
BELL HOOKS Doing It for Daddy
98
MICHAEL TAUSSIG Schopenhauers Beard
107
LEO BERSANI Loving
115
HOW SCIENCE DEFINES
124
ANNE FAUSTOSTERLING How to Build a
127
PHILOMENA MARIANI LawandOrder Science
135
SIMON WATNEY Gene Wars
157
ANDREW Ross The Great White Dude
167
Thoughts on Kafkas Body
176
BARBARA EHRENREICH The Decline of Patriarchy
284
RICHARD FUNG Burdens of Representation Burdens of Responsibility
291
Could it Be that Political Correctness Is the Problem?
299
STANLEY ARONOWITZ My Masculinity
307
Contributors
322
Bibliography
324
Photo Credits
331
Index
332
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