The Masculinity Studies Reader

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Edited by Rachel Adams and David Savran

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published February 2002, 382 pages, paper

ISBN 0631226605

A collection of previously published essays that have defined the interdisciplinary study of masculinity. Bringing together scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, this volume showcases key theorists, including Kimmel, Silverman, Halperin, Geertz, Dyer and Boyarin, as it seeks to re-conceptualize the masculinity studies debate along the axes of empire, borders, representations, the social sciences, and eroticism and across such diverse fields as film, anthropology, women's studies, sociology and queer theory. An introductory essay written by the editors frames widely-read and-cited work in a new context that is intended simultaneously to establish the contours of and to raise questions about masculinity as a field of academic inquiry.

Contents

Introduction by Rachel Adams and David Savran.
Part I: Eroticism:
Introduction.
1. Psychological Consequences of the Distinction between the Sexes: Sigmund Freud.
2. Masochism and Male Subjectivity: Kaja Silverman.
3. Subject Honor, Object Shame: Roger Lancaster.
4. The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens: David Halperin.
Part II: Social Sciences:
Introduction.
5. Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight: Clifford Geertz.
6. Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity: Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell, John Lee.
7. The Fraternal Social Contract: Carole Pateman.
8. The Birth of the Self-Made Man: Michael Kimmel.
Part III: Representations.
Introduction.
9. The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
10. The Woman Warrior versus the Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?: King-Kok Cheung.
11. Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary: Kobena Mercer.
12. Bonds of (In)Difference: Robyn Wiegman.
Part IV: Modernity and Empire:
Introduction.
13. The Fact of Blackness: Franz Fanon.
14. The History of Masculinity: R.W. Connell.
15. The White Man's Muscles: Richard Dyer.
16. What Does a Jew Want? Or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus: Daniel Boyarin.
17. No Longer in a Future Heaven: Nationalism, Gender, and Race: Anne McClintock.
18. The Economy of Colonial Desire: Revathi Krishnaswamy.
Part V: Borders:
Introduction.
19. Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England: Alan Bray.
20. The Lesbian Phallus: Judith Butler.
21. An Introduction to Female Masculinity: Judith Halberstam.
22. "That Sexe Which Prevaileth": Anne Fausto-Sterling