The Masculinity Studies Reader: (KeyWorks in Cultural Studies)

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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii Editors’ Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Rachel Adams and David Savran Part I: Eroticism 9 Introduction 9 1.Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes 9 Sigmund Freud 2.Masochism and Male Subjectivity 14 Kaja Silverman 3.Subject Honor, Object Shame 41 Roger Lancaster 4.The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens 69 David Halperin Part II: Social Sciences 77 Introduction 5.Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 80 Clifford Geertz 6.Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity 99 Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell, and John Lee 7.The Fraternal Social Contract 119 Carole Pateman 8.The Birth of the Self-made Man 135 Michael Kimmel Part III: Representations 153 Introduction 153 9.The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic 157 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 10.The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism 175 King-Kok Cheung 11.Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary 188 Kobena Mercer 12.Bonds of (In)Difference 201 Robyn Wiegman Part IV: Empire and Modernity 227 Introduction 227 13.The Fact of Blackness 232 Frantz Fanon 14.The History of Masculinity 245 R. W. Connell 15.The White Man's Muscles 262 Richard Dyer 16.What Does a Jew Want? or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus 274 Daniel Boyarin 17.The Economy of Colonial Desire 292 Revathi Krishnaswamy 18.Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada 318 Julie Peteet Part V: Borders 337 Introduction 337 19.Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England 337 Alan Bray 20.An Introduction to Female Masculinity 355 Judith Halberstam 21."That Sexe Which Prevaileth" 375 Anne Fausto-Sterling 22.The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 389 Don Kulick Index 408

About the Author :
Rachel Adams is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her writing includes the book Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Imagination (2001) and articles in American Literature, Camera Obscura, GLQ, and Michigan Quarterly. David Savran is Professor of Theatre at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has written two books on masculinity: Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture (1998) and Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams (1992).

Review :
"These essays are, individually, insightful and often arresting. Taken together, they are prismatic, illuminating this new interdisciplinary area of scholarly inquiry. With this collection, masculinity studies comes of age as an academic field." Michael Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook "This anthology identifies the need in contemporary cultural studies for more elaborate understandings of the relations of various masculinities to power, nation, empire, violence, race, class, and embodiment. The editors must be commended for producing a volume which answers to this need and brings together an eclectic, multidisciplinary, and wide-ranging collection of essays in response. Bound to become required reading in gender studies and beyond!" University of California at San Diego "The instructor-friendly anthology of 22 previously published essays dating primarily from 1970 to 2000, is destined to become a standard in courses on gender and masculinity. Rachel Adams and David Savran have chosen fascinating articles that will be both challenging and accessible to university students at all levels" Journal of Contemporary European Studies "Adams and Savran provide extrcta from a number of key sources that lay the foundations for understanding masculinities through a cultural studies oriented approach" Sexualities