| Description |
ix, 418 pages ; 26 cm. ; pbk. |
| Series |
Keyworks in cultural studies ; 5
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| Bibliog. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
[Part 1: Eroticism] Some psychological consequences of the anatomical distinction between the sexes / Sigmund Freud -- Masochism and male subjectivity / Kaja Silverman -- Subject honor, object shame / Roger Lancaster -- The democratic body: prostitution and citizenship in classical Athens / David Halperin. |
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[Part 2: Social Sciences] Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight / Cliford Geertz -- Toward a new sociology of masculinity / Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell, and John Lee -- The fraternal social contract / Carole Pateman -- The birth of the self-made man / Michael Kimmel. |
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[Part 3: Representations] The beast in the closet: James and the writing of the homosexual panic / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- The woman warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific: must a Chinese American critic choose between feminism and heroism? / King-Kok Cheung -- Skin head sex thing: racial difference and the homoerotic imaginary / Kobena Mercer -- Bonds of (in)difference / Robyn Wiegman. |
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[Part 4: Empire and modernity] The fact of blackness / Frantz Fanon -- The history of masculinity / R.W. Connell -- The white man's muscles / Richard Dyer -- What does a Jew want? Or, the political meaning of the phallus / Daniel Boyarin -- The economy of colonial desire / Revathi Krishnaswamy -- Male gender and rituals of resistance in the Palestinian Intifada / Julie Peteet. |
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[Part 5: Borders] Homosexuality and the signs of male friendship in Elizabethan England / Alan Bray -- An introduction to female masculinity / Judith Halberstam -- "That sexe which prevaileth" / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- The gender of Brazilian transgendered prostitutes / Don Kulick. |
| Local Note / Price |
30.00 |
| Subject(s) |
Men's studies.
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Masculinity.
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Heterosexuality.
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Homosexuality.
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| Alt Author |
Adams, Rachel, 1968-
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Savran, David, 1950-
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| ISBN |
0631226605 (pbk.) |
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9780631226604 (pbk.) |
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0631226591 |
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9780631226598 |
| ISBN/ISSN |
9780631226606 |
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