Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory

Name: Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory
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ISBN: 9780231122795

ISBN-10: 0231122799

ISBN-13: 9780231122795

Edition: 2001

Authors: Judith Kegan Gardiner

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Why is there so much talk of 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? Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory addresses central questions about the analysis and construction of masculinity in contemporary society. The volume examines the ways male privilege and power are constituted and represented and explores the effect of such constructions on both men and women. With subjects ranging from Robert Bly's Iron John to Tom Hank's "niceness," this collection overturns old paradigms about identity, victimization, and dominant and alternative forms of masculinity to…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 1/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Judith Kegan Gardiner is professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. An editor of the journal Feminist Studies,she is the author of Rhys, Stead, Lessing, and the Politics of Empathyand editor of Provoking Agents: Gender and Agency in Theory and Practice.



Foreword



Introduction




Unmaking: Men and Masculinity in Feminist Theory




Reenfleshing the Bright Boys; or, How Male Bodies Matter to Feminist Theory




Theorizing Age and Gender: Bly's Boys, Feminism, and Maturity Masculinity




Getting up There with Tom: the Politics of American "Nice"




Pedagogy of the Opaque: Teaching Masculinity Studies




Studying Masculinities As Superordinate Studies




Masculinity Studies; the Longed for Profeminist Movement for Academic Men?




Long and Winding Road; an Outsider's View of U.S. Masculintiy and Feminism




Masculinity and the (M)other: Toward a Synthesis of Feminist Mothering Theory and Psychoanalytic Theories of Narcissim




The Enemy Outisde: Thoughts on the Psychodynamics of Extreme Violence with Special Attention to Men and Masculinity




Art, Spirituality, and the Ethic of Care: Alternative Masculinities in Chinese American Literature




Black Male Trouble: the Challenges of Rethinking Masculine Differences




Race, Rape, Castration: Feminist Theories of Sexual Violence and Masculine Strategies of Black Protest




The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Men, Women, and Masculinity



Contributors


Index