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| Acknowledgments | vii | ||
| List of Contributors | viii | ||
| Foreword by Victor Jeleniewski Seidler | xi | ||
| 1 Introduction | 1 | (15) | |
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| 2 The Body, the Will and the Fear of Falling: The History of Masculine Self Control | 16 | (31) | |
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| 3 Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832-1920 | 47 | (30) | |
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| 4 Men, Bodies and Identities | 77 | (15) | |
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| 5 What's Behind the Mask? Bodybuilding and Masculinity | 92 | (15) | |
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| 6 Putting on Make-up with Red Gloves: Masculine Aesthetics in an Exclusive Male Culture | 107 | (18) | |
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| 7 When Boys Become Men: The Martial Arts as Young People's Revolt against the Youth Rebellion | 125 | (15) | |
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| 8 Sylvester Stallone's Body: "A Peculiar, Not To Say Pathological, Interest" | 140 | (30) | |
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| 9 Searching for the Body: Making Connections between Health, Bodies and Men's Violence | 170 | (23) | |
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| 10 Male Ways of Giving Birth | 193 | (15) | |
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| 11 The Psychodynamics of Shame in the Autobiographies of Modern Finnish Men | 208 | (16) | |
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| 12 Asthma: The Construction of the Masculine Body | 224 | (14) | |
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| 13 Disabling Men: Masculinity and Disability in Al Davison's Graphic Autobiography The Spiral Cage | 238 | (21) | |
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| 14 Ethos of Sexual Liberation and the Masculine Other | 259 | (13) | |
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| 15 Coming Out to be Straight: Young Men's Constructions of Heterosexualities | 272 | (16) | |
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| 16 "There has always been... " Gay History in Politics and in Reality | 288 | (17) | |
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| 17 Coming of Age in England: Black Gay Young Men's Schooling Experiences | 305 | (16) | |
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| Index | 321 |
