The Masculinity Studies Reader

Herausgeber: Adams, Rachel; Savran, David

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Masculinity Studies Reader is a collection of previously published essays that have defined the interdisciplinary study of masculinity. Bringing together scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, this volume serves multiple functions as a teaching companion, introduction to the field, and scholarly resource. Showcasing key theorists, including Kimmel, Silverman, Halperin, Freud, Dyer, Boyarin, and Fanon, the Reader seeks to reconceptualize the masculinity studies debate along the axes of empire, borders, representations, the social sciences, and eroticism, as well as across such diverse fields as film, anthropology, women's studies, sociology, and queer theory. An introductory essay written by the editors frames widely-read and -cited work 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 174mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 875g
• ISBN-13: 9780631226598
• ISBN-10: 0631226591
• Artikelnr.: 21627662

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rachel Adams and David Savran.

Part I: Eroticism.

Part II: Social Sciences.

Part III: Representations.

Part IV: Empire and Modernity.

Part V: Borders.

Index.

Rezensionen

"These essays are, individually, insightful and often arresting.Taken together, they are prismatic, illuminating this newinterdisciplinary area of scholarly inquiry. With this collection,masculinity studies comes of age as an academic field." MichaelKimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook

"This anthology identifies the need in contemporary culturalstudies for more elaborate understandings of the relations ofvarious masculinities to power, nation, empire, violence, race,class, and embodiment. The editors must be commended for producinga volume which answers to this need and brings together aneclectic, multidisciplinary, and wide-ranging collection of essaysin response. Bound to become required reading in gender studies andbeyond!" University of California at San Diego

"The instructor-friendly anthology of 22 previously publishedessays dating primarily from 1970 to 2000, is destined to become astandard in courses on gender and masculinity. Rachel Adams andDavid Savran have chosen fascinating articles that will be bothchallenging and accessible to university students at all levels"Journal of Contemporary European Studies

"Adams and Savran provide extrcta from a number of keysources that lay the foundations for understanding masculinitiesthrough a cultural studies oriented approach"Sexualities