C.J. Pascoe: Dude, You're a Fag

Masculinity and Sexuality in High School. USA 2007, 228 pp., brochure, € 18.29
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High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are explored in this incisive ethnography. Based on 18 months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, this book plumbs the dynamics of masculinity among high school boys and sheds new light on the complex interplay of masculinity, homophobia, sexuality, and the body, compelling us to rethink ... Weiterlesen

Mai Ghoussoub, Emma Sinclair-Webb (eds.): Imagined Masculinities

Male Identity and Culture in the Modern Middle East. UK 2006, 294 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Writings on gender in the Middle East have tended to focus on the status of women. Issues of Male identity, in a region which has seen enormous social change over the past decades, have been somewhat neglected. This book redresses this balance by examining masculinity as a social construct as diverse in its forms as femininity. Initiation rites, ritualised violence ... Weiterlesen

Chris Girman: Mucho Macho

USA 2004, 415 pp., brochure, € 31.20
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The author examines machismo from the perspective of Latin American and Latino men. He relies on a combination of ethnographic research and personal experience to explain how macho men regulate and sustain same-sex erotic encounters. The author incorporates his own sexual experiences with a variety of Latin men into the book. This multidisciplinary text examines a variety of Latin America's ... Weiterlesen

Judith Gardiner (ed.): Masculinity Studies & Feminist Theory

USA 2002, 386 pp., brochure, € 33.95
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Why is there so much talk about a »crisis« of masculinity? How have ideas of manhood been transformed by feminism? Does feminism hold the key to the development of more egalitarian forms of masculinity? This volume addresses central questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. It examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and ... Weiterlesen

Harrison G. Pope / Katharine A. Phillips / Roberto: The Adonis Complex

How to Identify, Treat, and Prevent Body Obsession in Men and Boys. USA 2000, 286 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 27.95
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Touchstone
A health crisis that strikes men of all ages. Trying everything from compulsive weight lifting to steroids, more and more boys and men are taking the quest for physical perfection beyond the bounds of normal behavior. »The Adonis Complex« - a groundbreaking book that first gave a name to this phenomenon and sparked nationwide interest in the subject - identifies ... Weiterlesen