Masculinities in theory : an introduction / Todd W. Reeser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reeser, Todd W., 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Masculinity.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

238 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Summary:

Masculinities in Theory is a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the field of masculinity studies from a humanities perspective. Serves as a much-needed introduction to the field for students and scholars of cultural studies, literature, art, film, communication, history, and gender studies Includes discussions of gay/queer, feminist, and gender studies in relation to masculinity Covers the key theoretical approaches to the study of masculinity, and introduces new models Explores the question ?What is masculinity and how does it work?? Looks at language, discourse, signification, power, cross-dressing, female, queer and transsexual masculinity, race and masculinity, nation and masculinity, interracial masculinities, and masculinities in history.

Contents:

Cover

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

2: Social Masculinity and Triangulation

From Twoness to Threeness

Masculine Rivalry and the Anxiety of Homosexuality

Masculinity and the Exchange of Women

Triangulation Transformed

3: Sexing Masculinity

Masculinity and Maleness

Performing Masculinity

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

5: Masculinity in Disguise

Effeminacy and Men as Women

Queer Heterosexual Masculinity

Lesbians Make the Man

6: Non-Male Masculinities

Female Masculinities

Transsexual Masculinities

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

8: Masculinity and the Nation

The Nation and the Analogical

Other Gender, Other Nation

Undoing the Nation, Undoing Masculinity

Venturing Out: Space and Masculinity

9: Interracial Masculinities

Interracial Male Bonding

Racialized Triangles

Womanless Triangles.

Bibliography

10: Unstable Time: Masculinity in History

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781444358537

1444358537

9781444317312

OCLC:

778339245