books about: masculinity     books:       Female Masculinity12 reviews Judith Halberstam Duke University Press, 1998 an important historical analysis this book will not hold your hand as you discover your masculinity. it will, however, inform you about the bredth and depth of female masculinity from a variety of perspectives. it is thorough in it's look at the affects of class and race and also contains a very interesting and important chapter on the tensions between butch, transgender, and FTM. this book is an important read for any ...             We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity8 reviews bell hooks Routledge, 2003 Definetly a Great Potential Buy! I have never reviewed online, despite my knowledge of books that appeal or cater to Black Culture. However, I could not pass up an opportunity to encourage someone to purchase this book! This is definetly a book that every Ebony American should have on his or her shelf. Of course, since that's not possible, I encourage you, Amazon customer, to buy this book! I borrowed it from the library on an ...             The Masculinity Studies Reader (KeyWorks in Cultural Studies) Wiley-Blackwell, 2002 The Masculinity Studies Reader brings together widely-read and -cited work by key theorists in a new context that is intended simultaneously to establish the contours of and to raise questions about masculinity as a field of academic inquiry.             Masculinities3 reviews R. W. Connell Blackwell Publishers, 2005 Brilliant views on thinking about men and masculinities! This book is a must-have for all students of men's studies--in fact, for all gender related--courses. The book is truly interdisciplinary. Dr. Raewyn Connell is a leading sociologist from Australia. She combines her past academic efforts in education, political science, and feminism and over two decades of ethnographic studies on men and masculinities to develop her theory for understanding ...             Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Perverse Modernities)6 reviews David L. Eng Duke University Press, 2001 says it like no one else I agree largely and almost wholly with the previous and first independent reviewer of this book: Eng's 'Racial Castration' is at times, hyperacademic and perhaps even overly into the realm of philosophy and not social studies. Still, it is a unique, overdue work on the perception of-- and the creation of the perception of-- asian american males in mainstream American society. I believe that Eng ...             Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity7 reviews Robert Jensen South End Press, 2007 Excellent analysis and moving autobiographical journey. I wish I had this book when I was teaching undergraduate Women's Studies courses! Jensen uses the topic of pornography to cover the most pressing issues facing feminism, and society at large, today. He has built upon the work of radical feminist scholars in regards to applying feminist theory to pornography. He looks at how the industry, its violent content, and access to pornography through ...             Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity (Law, Meaning, and Violence)9 reviews Ann Arnett Ferguson University of Michigan Press, 2001 Bad Boys Review I was excited to begin reading this book and to learn how the school system unproportionately suspended and disciplined African American males. I was not expecting to learn how the author related the concept of masculinity and discipline into cause and effect paradigm. Even though this class and other sociological classes have taught me to think for myself, ask questions, and expand on concepts ...             Misreading Masculinity: Boys, Literacy, and Popular Culture4 reviews Thomas Newkirk Heinemann, 2002 A must read for educators! Author Thomas Newkirk offers insight into what turns boys on and off to literacy. Through his interivews, short stories, reviewed research, and personal accounts, he paints a picture that cannot be ignored. Throughout his book, Newkirk challenges literacy standards and literacy standards bearers to look at the choices and genres boys, in particular, are choosing when they read and write, and ...             Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory Columbia University Press, 2002 -- Malcom Cowburn, Sexualities             Crisis in Masculinity17 reviews Leanne Payne Baker Books, 1995 Affirmation of the male role model I found this very interesting and got a whole new insight on homosexuality. The male role models were not there during the time that the male children needed to be affirmed by their human father.             The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity10 reviews Stephen J. Ducat Beacon Press, 2005 Tough guy theater. While U.S. citizens like to think that they are residing in the "home of the brave," the truth is we're a very frightened population. The constant warnings that one country or another is a threat to our existence, the hysteria over immigrants, the endless stream of cop shows; it all serves to frighten the people of our military empire. That's where the tough guy marketing of Bush comes in, he ...             Black Masculinity And the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta (The New Southern Studies) (The New Southern ... Riche Richardson University of Georgia Press, 2007 This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Many negative stereotypes of black men-often contradictory ones-have emerged from the ongoing historical traumas initiated by slavery. Are black men emasculated and submissive or hypersexed and violent? Nostalgic representations of black men have arisen as well: think of the ...             Politics of Masculinities: Men in Movements (The Gender Lens)1 review Michael Messner Sage Publications, Inc, 1997 If you ever buy any men's studies text, this should be it! Messner basically develops a sociological chart for analyzing writings and activism from men's groups. He reviews the literature in this field over the past three decades. This book will help you to understand much about antisexist men, the Million Man March, gay male pornography, and many other topics. This is definitely one of my favorite men's studies text.             Constructing Masculinity (Discussion in Contemporary Culture, No. 11)1 review Maurice Berger Routledge, 1995 Great book, a must have! I personally found this book to offer a wide variety on essays that deal with patriarchal models of masculine ideals. It is as informing a book on the subject as you will ever be able to come across with, and it deals with more than just the feminist discourse as it offers a new theoretical framework with which to gaze at the male.             Progressive Black Masculinities Routledge, 2006 In the struggle for pride and political agency, the imperative to "be a man" has been central to the lives of black males. Yet, what it means to be a black man-in terms of both racial and gender identity-has been subject to continual debate in public and academic spheres alike. Progressive Black Masculinities brings together leading black cultural critics including Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, and Patricia Hill Collins to examine ...             Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader (Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes) University of California Press, 2002 The past two centuries have witnessed tremendous upheavals in every aspect of Chinese culture and society. At the level of everyday life, some of the most remarkable transformations have occurred in the realm of gender. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities is a mix of illuminating historical and ethnographic studies of gender from the 1700s to the present. The essays in this highly creative collection are organized in pairs that ...             Country Boys: Masculinity And Rural Life (Rural Studies Series)1 review Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006 (First World, white) Rural Men There's no such thing as too much men's studies: this privileged group needs to see itself and not think of itself as universal or de-sexed. Also, men's studies fulfills the most when it covers the intersectionality of masculinity and other areas. Books have been produced about older men, black men, bisexual men, rich men, poor men, and finally this book publishes work on rural men. Like much ...             From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity5 reviews Leo Braudy Vintage, 2005 Man o' War This is a first class work by a literary historian of wide erudition. Leo Braudy traces the changing nature of maleness as seen though the wars and consequent cultural upheavals of the last thousand years. The author has read widely and from that has come a new view of this enormous subject. His references are European, Asian and North American -- all quite different, of course, though in ...             In The Game: Gay Athletes And The Cult Of Masculinity (S U N Y Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) Eric Anderson State University of New York Press, 2005 In the Game Gay Athletes and the Cult of Masculinity Eric Anderson - Author SUNY series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations Summary Examines the relationship between gay male athletes, sport, and American masculinity.             Prisons, Race, and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Film (Black Performance and Cultural ... Peter Caster Ohio State University Press, 2008 In Prisons, Race, and Masculinity, Peter Caster demonstrates the centrality of imprisonment in American culture, illustrating how incarceration, an institution inseparable from race, has shaped and continues to shape U.S. history and literature in the starkest expression of what W. E. B. DuBois famously termed ?the problem of the color line.?   A prison official in 1888 declared that it was the freeing of slaves that actually created ...              search for books athletes, castration, changing, chivalry, constructing, contemporary, criticism, cultural, discussion, femininities, feminist, literacy, literature, managing, masculinities, masculinity, misreading, modernities, movements, performance, perverse, politics, pornography, progressive, relations, southern, terrorism, twentieth, twentieth-century, violence books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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