The Masculinity Studies Reader

by Adams, Rachel; Savran, David

• ISBN13: 9780631226598
• ISBN10: 0631226591
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-15
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	viii
Editors' Acknowledgments	x
Introduction	1	(9)
Rachel Adams
David Savran
PART I: EROTICISM	9	(68)
Introduction	9	(5)
Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes	14	(7)
Sigmund Freud
Masochism and Male Subjectivity	21	(20)
Kaja Silverman
Subject Honor, Object Shame	41	(28)
Roger Lancaster
The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens	69	(8)
David Halperin
PART II: SOCIAL SCIENCES	77	(76)
Introduction	77	(3)
Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight	80	(19)
Clifford Geertz
Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity	99	(20)
Tim Carrigan
Bob Connell
John Lee
The Fraternal Social Contract	119	(16)
Carole Pateman
The Birth of the Self-made Man	135	(18)
Michael Kimmel
PART III: REPRESENTATIONS	153	(74)
Introduction	153	(4)
The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic	157	(18)
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?	175	(13)
King-Kok Cheung
Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary	188	(13)
Kobena Mercer
Bonds of (In) Difference	201	(26)
Robyn Wiegman
PART IV: EMPIRE AND MODERNITY	227	(110)
Introduction	227	(5)
The Fact of Blackness	232	(13)
Frantz Fanon
The History of Masculinity	245	(17)
R. W. Connell
The White Man's Muscles	262	(12)
Richard Dyer
What Does a Jew Want? or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus	274	(18)
Daniel Boyarin
The Economy of Colonial Desire	292	(26)
Revathi Krishnaswamy
Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada	318	(19)
Julie Peteet
PART V: BORDERS	337	(71)
Introduction	337	(3)
Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England	340	(15)
Alan Bray
An Introduction to Female Masculinity	355	(20)
Judith Halberstam
``That Sexe Which Prevaileth''	375	(14)
Anne Fausto-Sterling
The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes	389	(19)
Don Kulick
Index	408