Men's Studies

Take this test. You think today's sensitive, caring man is: (a) a myth, (b) an oxymoron, or (c) a moron. No matter whether you laugh at this bit of folk humor, its wide circulation bespeaks a modern predicament for American men. Men's "manly" traditions...

Muscular, fearless, youthful, athletic-the World War II soldier embodied masculine ideals and represented the manhood of the United States. In The Male Body at War, Christina Jarvis examines the creation of this national symbol, from military recruitment...

What accounts for the popularity of the macho image, the fanaticism of sports enthusiasts, and the perennial appeal of Don Quixote's ineffectual struggles? In Fighting for Life, Walter J. Ong addresses these and related questions, offering insight into...

This groundbreaking work examines the long-ignored issue of masculinity and masculine identity in German culture, society, and literature, from 1945 to the present. Utilizing emerging men's studies theories, feminism, psychoanalysis, and literary...

This collection highlights the fluidity of masculinity in American popular culture at the turn of the new millennium and beyond by examining possibilities for male identity formation. Each chapter mines American popular culture-theatre, film, literature,...

In seven representative episodes of black masculine literary and cultural history-from the founding of the first African American Masonic lodge in 1775 to the 1990s choreographies of modern dance genius Bill T. Jones-Constructing the Black Masculine maps...

In this book based on the biographical accounts of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz analyzes specific experiences of whiteness as they are produced at the intersection of multiple...

What did it mean to be a man in medieval England? Most would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062858412Author Susan FaludiFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586178871Author Harold Burke-SiversFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel a representative of Cartier, the renowned jewelry firm. There, the "Mayfair men" brutally...

We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation of masculinity: it changes the body and brain to make a male. It is involved...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807059364Author Michael Andor BrodeurFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999727307Author Nigel AtkinsonFormat PaperbackImprint Elloa and Nige AtkinsonPublisher Elloa and Nige Atkinson

Men are not the enemy, and masculinity, contrary to what much of popular culture would have you believe, is the solution to what plagues individuals, families, and society as a whole. MEN, YOU ARE NOT TOXIC. You are hardwired to be masculine and you...

Alex McKinven's passion for football has been life-long - first as a player and then as a manager - and that passion shines through in this book, the first comprehensive history of the game in Campbeltown, which documents the evolution of local football...

We inherit mechanisms for survival from our primeval past; none so obviously as those involved in reproduction. The hormone testosterone underlies the organization of activation of masculinity: it changes the body and brain to make a male. It is involved...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726491Author Jonathan AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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Much has been made of the complex social arrangements that girls and women navigate, but little scholarly or popular attention has focused on what friendship means to men. Drawing on in-depth interviews with nearly 400 men, therapist and researcher...

With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study are hijras or the "third sex" of India, individuals who occupy a unique, liminal space between male and...

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Presenting a survey of the social, cultural and theoretical issues which surround and inform our understanding of masculinity, this book explores the interface between traditional sociological approaches and the work covered by more post-structural,...

Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male prespective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting to the structural upheaval of the "traditional" family and to new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679740704Author Nathan McCallFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 311g

Several years after the first edition of Bad Boys, Bad Men was published, Donald W. Black, MD, brings us the Revised and Updated edition. Containing the same examination of antisocial personality disorder, Dr. Black continues to draw on case studies,...

From the acclaimed author of "Don't Tell" and "Dead Boys Can't Dance." Candid interviews and personal stories highlight a provocative exploration of the lives of male street hustlers, strippers, and escorts.From the acclaimed author of "Don't Tell" and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671865726Author Richard MajorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 216gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Cynthia Cockburn's classic work began as a study on the human impact of technological change, but ended as an exploratiion in the making and remaking of men, showing how work and technology are used by men in maintaining their control over women. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of NAACP Image Award.Book InformationISBN 9781592402496Author Hill HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams)...

A probing inquiry into the pervasiveness of negative male stereotypes in popular culture.A probing inquiry into the pervasiveness of negative male stereotypes in popular culture.About the AuthorPaul Nathanson is a researcher, religious studies, McGill...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809055470Author John F KassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill & WangWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 140mm * 23mm

When former heavyweight champion Jim Jeffries came out of retirement on the fourth of July, 1910 to fight current black heavywight champion Jack Johnson in Reno, Nevada, he boasted that he was doing it "for the sole purpose of proving that a white man is...

Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific focuses on the plasticity and contingent nature of Pacific Island masculinities over the course of colonial and postcolonial histories. The several case histories concern the use of sports to recuperate but also...

Men are commonly expected to act "masculine" (e.g., self-sufficient, stoic, strong, dependable, brave, tough, and hard-working) while avoiding stereotypically "feminine" traits (e.g., emotional expressivity, empathy, and nurturance). Few, however,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Best Book, Culture and Ideas 2022 and Best Book 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780815739876Author Richard ReevesFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Brookings...

Since the mid-1970s men's studies, and gender studies has earned its place in scholarship. What's often missing from such studies, however, is the insight that the concept of gender in general, and that of masculinity in particular, can be understood...

This is the first historical account of the masculine stereotype as it evolved in modern Western culture. It shows how 20th-century fascism gave the manly ideal its extreme expression - in mass rallies that glorified the storm trooper while attacking...