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Some styles of masculinity / Gregg Bordowitz, Introduction by Hua Hsu.
Van Pelt Library RC606.55.B67 A4 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bordowitz, Gregg, author.
- Lippmann, Ellen, author of afterword, colophon, etc.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bordowitz, Gregg.
- Masculinity.
- Sex role in mass media.
- AIDS activists--Biography.
- AIDS activists.
- Jewish gay men--Biography.
- Jewish gay men.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
- AIDS (Disease).
- Bordowitz, Gregg--Childhood and youth.
- AIDS (Disease)--Patients.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 230 pages ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Triple Canopy, [2021]
- Summary:
- Some Styles of Masculinity is an intimate, urgent, and rollicking account of thinking and enduring through upheaval and plague. Prompted by the surge of white nationalism in the United States, Gregg Bordowitz reflects on his experience of assimilation and marginalization as a Yinglish-speaking child of outer-borough Jews and a queer person who has been living with AIDS since his twenties. He tells his own story by considering three totems of masculinity that were formative to him as he came of age in New York City in the 1970s and '80s: the rock star, the rabbi, and the comedian. These figures taught Bordowitz how to balance reinvention and tradition, and how to be different even as difference is under assault.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Rock Star
- ch. 2 The Rabbi.
- ISBN:
- 0997852453
- 9780997852455
- OCLC:
- 1256542123
- Publisher Number:
- 99989359065
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