Transforming Masculinities Seidler, Victor J.
2006, 20060320, 2005, 2006-06-01, 2006-03-20, 2005-10-25
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Critically exploring the ways in which men and masculinities are commonly theorized, this multidisciplinary text opens up a discussion around such relationships, and shows that, as with feminisms, ...there is a diversity of theoretical traditions. It draws on a variety of examples, and explores new directions in the complexities of diverse male identities and emotional lives across different histories, cultures and traditions. This book: considers the experiences of different generations explores connections between masculinity and drugs investigates men and masculinities in a post-9/11 world considers new ways of thinking about male violence recognizes the importance of culture and provides spaces to explore different class, 'race' and ethnic masculinities.
Written in a practical, versatile manner by an established author in this field, it points to new directions in thinking, and makes essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in the fields of sociology, gender studies, politics, philosophy and psychology.
Rates of HIV/STI transmission among Black men who have sex with men (BMSM) are alarmingly high and demand urgent public health attention. Stigma related concerns are a key barrier to accessing health ...care and prevention tools, yet limited research has been focused in this area. Experiences of stigma related to health care were evaluated among 151 BMSM residing in the Atlanta, GA area, both prior to and post HIV or STI diagnosis in a longitudinal study (data collected from 2014 to 2016). Findings demonstrated that inadequate health care engagement is associated with post-diagnosis anticipated stigma (
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This thought-provoking book from award-winning educator Baruti K. Kafele offers proven strategies that teachers and administrators can use to motivate and engage black male students at the middle and ...high school levels.
This pathbreaking study of region, race, and gender reveals how we underestimate the South's influence on the formation of black masculinity at the national level. Many negative stereotypes of black ...men-often contradictory ones-have emerged from the ongoing historical traumas initiated by slavery. Are black men emasculated and submissive or hypersexed and violent? Nostalgic representations of black men have arisen as well: think of the philosophical, hardworking sharecropper or the abiding, upright preacher. To complicate matters, says Riché Richardson, blacks themselves appropriate these images for purposes never intended by their (mostly) white progenitors. Starting with such well-known caricatures as the Uncle Tom and the black rapist, Richardson investigates a range of pathologies of black masculinity that derive ideological force from their associations with the South. Military policy, black-liberation discourse, and contemporary rap, she argues, are just some of the instruments by which egregious pathologies of black masculinity in southern history have been sustained. Richardson's sources are eclectic and provocative, including Ralph Ellison's fiction, Charles Fuller's plays, Spike Lee's films, Huey Newton's and Malcolm X's political rhetoric, the O. J. Simpson discourse, and the music production of Master P, the Cash Money Millionaires, and other Dirty South rappers. Filled with new insights into the region's role in producing hierarchies of race and gender in and beyond their African American contexts, this new study points the way toward more epistemological frameworks for southern literature, southern studies, and gender studies.
Incidence of lymphogranuloma venereum increased in England during 2018–2019, after a period of decline. Our retrospective analysis of national surveillance data identified a rapid increase in ...diagnoses among HIV-negative men who have sex with men. These findings indicate a need for sustained surveillance and targeted public health action.
This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times-from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS ...activism-helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality. In locating the rise of black gay identities in historical context, Kevin Mumford explores how activists, performers, and writers rebutted negative stereotypes and refused sexual objectification. Examining the lives of both famous and little-known black gay activists-from James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin to Joseph Beam and Brother Grant-Michael Fitzgerald-Mumford analyzes the ways in which movements for social change both inspired and marginalized black gay men.Drawing on an extensive archive of newspapers, pornography, and film, as well as government documents, organizational records, and personal papers, Mumford sheds new light on four volatile decades in the protracted battle of black gay men for affirmation and empowerment in the face of pervasive racism and homophobia.
An examination of the treatment of serious violence by men against women in nineteenth-century England. During Victoria's reign the criminal law came to punish such violence more systematically and ...heavily, while propagating a new, more pacific ideal of manliness. Yet this apparently progressive legal development called forth strong resistance, not only from violent men themselves but, from others who drew upon discourses of democracy, humanitarianism and patriarchy to establish sympathy with 'men of blood'. In exploring this development and the contest it generated, Professor Wiener analyzes the cultural logic underlying shifting practices in nineteenth-century courts and Whitehall, and locates competing cultural discourses in the everyday life of criminal justice. The tensions and dilemmas this book highlights are more than simply 'Victorian' ones; to an important degree they remain with us. Consequently this work speaks not only to historians and to students of gender but also to criminologists and legal theorists.
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What is masculinity? Looked at across time - from antiquity to the modern day - the contours of 'manliness' take on an intriguing complexity. As the various contributors to this volume ...demonstrate, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied considerably over time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, one not available to all men, and one sometimes even applied to certain women. By looking at masculinity over time, this ground-breaking book presents a variety of new perspectives on the nature of masculinity, its social and political functions, and the methods by which historians and others might seek to analyse it. Each author provides both a case study of what 'masculinity' means (or fails to mean) in a specific historical moment, and contributes to a wider collective analysis of the changing historical dynamics to male identity. Overall, the book provides a key methodological landmark in the study of gender history.
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Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.H.Arnold & S.Brady PART I: PARADIGMS AND NOMENCLATURE The History of Masculinity: an Outdated Concept?; J.Tosh Can the Hegemon Speak? Reading Masculinity through Anthropology; D.F.Janssen The Whig Interpretation of Masculinity? Honour and Sexuality in Late Medieval Manhood; C.Fletcher Masculinity without Conflict: Noblemen in Eighth and Ninth-Century Francia; R.Stone PART II: MASCULINITY AND HEGEMONY Masculinities in Early Hellenistic Athens; H.Berg Masculinity as a World Historical Category of Analysis; S.Yarrow Hegemonic Masculinities? Assessing Change and Process of Change in Elite Masculinity, 1700-1900; H.French
& M.Rothery Masculinity and Fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830; J.Bailey PART III: MATURING AND ADULTHOOD Athenian Pederasty and the Construction of Masculinity; T.K.Hubbard An Orchard, a Love Letter, and Three Bastards: the Formation of Adult Male Identity in a Fifteenth-Century Family; R.E.Moss 'To make a Man without Reason': Examining Manhood and Manliness in Early Modern England; J.Jordan 'Boys, Semi-Men and Bearded Scholars': Maturity and Manliness in early Nineteenth-Century Oxford; H.Ellis PART IV: DOMESTICITIES St. Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883-1914; L.Matthews-Jones Homes Fit for Homos: Joe Orton, Masculinity, and the Domesticated Queer; M.Cook Three Faces of Fatherhood as a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics as 'Responsible Family Men' during Canada's Baby Boom; R.Rutherdale PART V: MODERN FRONTIERS Cow Boys, Cattle Men, and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier; J.M.Moore Valorising Samurai Masculinity through Biblical Language: Christianity, Oscar Wilde, and Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro ; K.Miyazaki 'Proper Government and Discipline': Family Religion and Masculine Authority in Nineteenth-Century Canada; N.Christie Punters and their Prostitutes: British Soldiers, Masculinity, and maisons tolérées in the First World War; C.Makepeace Conclusion Masculinities, Histories, and Memories; V.Jeleniewski Seidler
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JOHN H. ARNOLD is Professor of Medieval History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He works on various aspects of medieval culture and modern historiography. SEAN BRADY is Lecturer in Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is an historian of modern British history and his Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 has been internationally influential on the field. Both he and John H. Arnold are convening editors of Palgrave Macmillan's series 'Genders and Sexualities in History'.
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Cutting-edge original theories regarding the dynamics of masculine identity
Comparative across a broad period of time
Arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, for ease of use in teaching
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Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.
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A collection of ground-breaking chapters on the history of masculinity, presenting new methodological and interpretative approaches across historical periods
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