Men and Masculinity A Text-Reader

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Pub. Date: 2000-07-17
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary

This anthology of readings designed for gender studies or men's studies courses is organized around specific themes and issues, including men in marriage, socialization, men and employment, and men in trouble. Selections are drawn from interviews and first-person narratives, as well as from more traditional academic sources.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Just Because They're Men
1(52)
The Cultural Construction of Gender and Manhood
9(10)
James G. Peoples
``Night to His Day'': The Social Construction of Gender
19(10)
Judith Lorber
Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity
29(13)
Michael S. Kimmel
``Macho'': Contemporary Conceptions
42(11)
Alfredo Mirande
Making Men Out of Them: Male Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence
53(44)
Markers to Manhood: Samburu
61(9)
David Gilmore
Inside the World of Boys: Behind the Mask of Masculinity
70(8)
William Pollack
Football Ritual and the Social Reproduction of Masculinity
78(8)
Donald F. Sabo
Joe Panepinto
Trains
86(4)
Nathan McCall
He Defies You Still: The Memoirs of a Sissy
90(4)
Tommi Avicolli
The Kid No One Noticed
94(3)
Jonah Blank
Men as Friends
97(58)
Men's Friendships: Mismeasured, Demeaned, and Misunderstood?
103(15)
Kim G. Dolgin
Men, Women, and Friendship: What They Say, What They Do
118(13)
Karen Walker
Covert Intimacy: Closeness in Men's Friendships
131(15)
Scott Swain
Men Have Friends, Too!
146(2)
Richard Nightingale
All-American Guys
148(7)
Bernard Lefkowitz
Men in Families
155(121)
Couples Watching Television: Gender, Power, and the Remote Control
165(12)
Alexis J. Walker
Trading Places: Changes in Gender Roles Within the Iranian Immigrant Family
177(15)
Ali Akbar Mahdi
Thinking About the Baby: Gender and the Division of Infant Care
192(15)
Susan Walzer
Japanese Families: The Father's Place in a Changing World
207(12)
Gary DeCoker
Doing It Fairly: A Study of Postgender Marriages
219(20)
Barbara J. Risman
Danette Johnson-Summerford
Generative Fathering After Divorce and Remarriage: Beyond the ``Disappearing Dad''
239(9)
Kay Pasley
Carmelle Minton
Patriarchal Terrorism and Common Couple Violence: Two Forms of Violence Against Women
248(13)
Michael P. Johnson
Straight from the Heart
261(7)
Rod
Bob Jackson--Paris
The Puerto Rican Dummy and the Merciful Son
268(5)
Martin Espada
Stardust Memories
273(3)
Mark Neilsen
Men and Employment
276(69)
Giving at the Office
282(8)
Arlie Russell Hochschild
``When You Get Laid Off, It's Like You Lose a Part of Yourself''
290(12)
Lillian B. Rubin
Leaving Work and Staying Home: The Impact on Men of Terminating the Male Economic-Provider Role
302(18)
Theodore F.Cohen
John Durst
The Meaning and Significance of Race: Employers and Inner-City Workers
320(12)
William Julius Wilson
Dimensions of the Closet
332(10)
James Woods
The Indignities of Unemployment
342(1)
Kenneth W. Brown
Retirement Dinner
343(2)
Bob Greene
Men in Trouble
345(45)
Surviving and Thriving: Men and Physical Health
352(9)
Christopher Kilmartin
Men's Hidden Depression
361(7)
Terrence Real
Fraternities and Collegiate Rape Culture: Why Are Some Fraternities More Dangerous Places for Women?
368(11)
A. Ayres Boswell
Joan Z. Spade
The Coach, the Player...and Their Demons
379(9)
Bill Minutaglio
Rage of the American Male
388(2)
Susan Faludi
Movements of Men and the Politics of Masculinity
390(7)
Essentialist Retreats: The Mythopoetic Men's Movement and the Christian Promise Keepers
397(12)
Michael Messner
African American Men: The Challenge of Racism
409(13)
Kenneth Clatterbaugh
(In) Secure Times: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late 20th Century
422(13)
Michelle Fine
Lois Weis
Judi Addelston
Julia Marusza
The Feminist Man's Manifesto
435
Jon Morgan

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