Men's Lives

by Kimmel, Michael S.; Messner, Michael A.

Edition: 8th

ISBN13: 9780205692941

ISBN10: 020569294X

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Pub. Date: 2009-02-17

Publisher(s): Pearson

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Look Inside April 17, 2011
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Going beyond earlier texts and collections, Men's Lives now reflects the development of greater theoretical sophistication and coherence in a field once often represented as anecdote and generalization. Some articles in this reader are less helpful than others but overall it is a great introduction to masculinity studies and I highly recommend it. As for me, I'm very happy to deal with ecampus. The book looks as if it is new and the price was good. Thanks.

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Summary

Edited by two of the field's most prominent researchers, this best-selling reader on men and masculinity contains the most current articles available.

Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader takes a life-course perspective, using the idea that men (as well as women) are “gendered” and that this gendering process is a central experience for men.

Men's Lives is intended as a broad introduction to the many types of inequality economics, status, political power, sex and gender, sexual orientation, race, and ethnicity in U.S. society and in a global setting. Gender; Men; Masculinity; Work, Relationships; Sexuality. For anyone interested in understanding men and their roles in society.

Author Biography

Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook. He is the author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (HarperCollins, 2008) which was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America and featured on over one hundred radio and newspaper and blog reviews. His other books include Changing Men (1987), Men’s Lives(8^th edition, 2009) Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990 (1992), The Politics of Manhood (1996), Manhood: A Cultural History (1996, 10^th anniversary second edition, 2006), and The Gendered Society (3^rd edition, 2008). He co-edited The Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities (2004) and Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (2004). He is the founder and editor of Men and Masculinities, the field’s premier scholarly journal, a book series on Gender and Sexuality at New York University Press, and edited the Sage Series on Men and Masculinities. He lectures extensively in corporations and on campuses in the U.S. and abroad. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and co-author, Amy Aronson, and their 10 year old son, Zachary.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Perspectives on Masculinities	p. 1
Caveman Masculinity: Finding an Ethnicity in Evolutionary Science	p. 3
The Male Privilege Checklist	p. 14
All Men Are Not Created Equal: Asian Men in U.S. History	p. 17
"Macho": Contemporary Conceptions	p. 26
Boyhood	p. 37
Warrior Narratives in the Kindergarten Classroom: Renegotiating the Social Contract?	p. 39
"No Way My Boys Are Going to Be Like That!": Parents' Responses to Children's Gender Nonconformity	p. 52
"Dude, You're a Fag": Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse	p. 70
The Act-Like-a-Man Box	p. 83
Memories of Same-Sex Attractions	p. 86
Making a Name for Yourself: Transgressive Acts and Gender Performance	p. 104
Collegiate Masculinities: Privilege and Peril	p. 117
Guyland: Gendering the Transition to Adulthood	p. 119
The Measure of a Man: Conceptualizations of Masculinity among High-Achieving African American Male College Students	p. 134
The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship: A Case Study of the Role of Sexist Jokes in Male Group Bonding	p. 147
Why College Men Drink: Alcohol, Adventure, and the Paradox of Masculinity	p. 157
The Starbucks Intervention	p. 171
Men and Work	p. 175
The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions	p. 177
"Why Marcia You've Changed!": Male Clerical Temporary Workers Doing Masculinity in a Feminized Occupation	p. 192
Sexual Harassment and Masculinity: The Power and Meaning of "Girl Watching"	p. 208
Just One of the Guys?: How Transmen Make Gender Visible at Work	p. 221
Men and Health	p. 241
Masculinities and Men's Health: Moving toward Post-Superman Era Prevention	p. 243
Old Gay Men's Bodies and Masculinities	p. 261
If Men Could Menstruate	p. 280
Fixing Broken Masculinity: Viagra as a Technology for the Production of Gender and Sexuality	p. 282
It Takes Balls: Lance Armstrong and the Triumph of American Masculinity	p. 289
Men in Relationships	p. 301
"I'm Not Friends the Way She's Friends": Ideological and Behavioral Constructions of Masculinity in Men's Friendships	p. 303
The Politics of Gay Men's Friendships	p. 316
The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performance of Masculinity as Collective Activity	p. 320
Gender and the Meanings of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Focus on Boys	p. 338
Male Sexualities	p. 369
Becoming 100 Percent Straight	p. 371
The Heterosexual Questionnaire	p. 377
A Pornographic World [What Is Normal?]	p. 378
They Don't Want to Cruise Your Type: Gay Men of Color and the Racial Politics of Exclusion	p. 384
Fantasy Islands: Exploring the Demand for Sex Tourism	p. 397
Men in Families	p. 411
Strategies Men Use to Resist	p. 413
Ethnicity, Race, and Difference: A Comparison of White, Black, and Hispanic Men's Household Labor Time	p. 420
Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions, and Dilemmas	p. 432
Cruising to Familyland: Gay Hypergamy and Rainbow Kinship	p. 450
Masculinities in the Media and Popular Culture	p. 463
The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events	p. 465
When in Rome: Heterosexism, Homophobia, and Sports Talk Radio	p. 479
Retrofitting Frontier Masculinity for Alaska's War against Wolves	p. 504
"A Walking Open Wound": Emo Rock and the "Crisis" of Masculinity in America	p. 521
Violence and Masculinities	p. 533
Athlete Aggression on the Rink and off the Ice: Athlete Violence and Aggression in Hockey and Interpersonal Relationships	p. 535
Culture, Gender, and Violence: "We Are Not Women"	p. 551
Men on Rape	p. 559
Wielding Masculinity inside Abu Ghraib: Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal	p. 565
Men, Movements, and the Future	p. 573
The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Forty-Eighth Session, March 1-12, 2004	p. 575
More Than a Few Good Men	p. 579
New Black Man	p. 591
"I Used to Think Women Were Weak": Orthodox Masculinity, Gender Segregation, and Sport	p. 596
Unraveling the Gender Knot	p. 613
Contributors	p. 623
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