Masculinities in Theory : An Introduction.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (203 pages)
- New York Academy of Sciences Series .
- New York Academy of Sciences Series .
Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Study of Masculinity -- Why Masculinities? -- Why Masculinities in Theory? -- Why Masculinities in Post-Structuralist Theory? -- Bibliography -- 1: Theorizing Masculinity -- The Origins of Masculinity -- Masculinity as Ideology -- Masculinity, Language, and Discourse -- Masculinity as Sign -- Masculinity in Dialogue -- Masculinity as Continual Movement -- The Excesses of Post-Structuralism: Toward a Moderate Approach to Masculinity -- Bibliography -- 2: Social Masculinity and Triangulation -- From Twoness to Threeness -- Masculine Rivalry and the Anxiety of Homosexuality -- Masculinity and the Exchange of Women -- Triangulation Transformed -- Bibliography -- 3: Sexing Masculinity -- Masculinity and Maleness -- Performing Masculinity -- Bibliography -- 4: Theorizing the Male Body -- Culture and the Male Body -- Power, Resistance, and the Male Body -- Imagining the Male Body -- The Fluid Male Body -- Projecting the Male Body on Screen -- Bibliography -- 5: Masculinity in Disguise -- Effeminacy and Men as Women -- Queer Heterosexual Masculinity -- Lesbians Make the Man -- Bibliography -- 6: Non-Male Masculinities -- Female Masculinities -- Transsexual Masculinities -- Bibliography -- 7: Masculinity and Racialized Subjectivities -- Making Racialized Masculinities Visible -- Masculinity, Race, and the Analogical -- Racialized Binary Oppositions -- Racialized Gender, Racialized Sex -- Resisting Analogical Constructs -- Racialized Scopophilia and Masculinity -- Bibliography -- 8: Masculinity and the Nation -- The Nation and the Analogical -- Other Gender, Other Nation -- Undoing the Nation, Undoing Masculinity -- Venturing Out: Space and Masculinity -- Bibliography -- 9: Interracial Masculinities -- Interracial Male Bonding -- Racialized Triangles -- Womanless Triangles. Bibliography -- 10: Unstable Time: Masculinity in History -- Bibliography -- Index.