The Masculinity Studies Reader

Acknowledgments.

Editors' Acknowledgments.

Introduction (Rachel Adams and David Savran).

Part I: Eroticism.

Introduction.

1. Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical 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, and 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: Empire and Modernity.

Introduction.

13. The Fact of Blackness (Frantz 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. The Economy of Colonial Desire (Revathi Krishnaswamy).

18. Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian
Intifada (Julie Peteet).

Part V: Borders.

Introduction.

19. Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in
Elizabethan England (Alan Bray).

20. An Introduction to Female Masculinity (Judith
Halberstam).

21. "That Sexe Which Prevaileth" (Anne Fausto-Sterling).

22. The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Don
Kulick).

Index.

"These essays are, individually, insightful and often arresting.
Taken together, they are prismatic, illuminating this new
interdisciplinary area of scholarly inquiry. With this collection,
masculinity studies comes of age as an academic field." Michael
Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook

"This anthology identifies the need in contemporary cultural
studies for more elaborate understandings of the relations of
various masculinities to power, nation, empire, violence, race,
class, and embodiment. The editors must be commended for producing
a volume which answers to this need and brings together an
eclectic, multidisciplinary, and wide-ranging collection of essays
in response. Bound to become required reading in gender studies and
beyond!" University of California at San Diego

"The instructor-friendly anthology of 22 previously published
essays dating primarily from 1970 to 2000, is destined to become a
standard in courses on gender and masculinity. Rachel Adams and
David Savran have chosen fascinating articles that will be both
challenging and accessible to university students at all levels"
Journal of Contemporary European Studies

"Adams and Savran provide extrcta from a number of key
sources that lay the foundations for understanding masculinities
through a cultural studies oriented approach"
Sexualities

Rachel Adams is Assistant Professor of English and
Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her writing includes
the book Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American
Imagination (2001) and articles in American Literature,
Camera Obscura, GLQ, and Michigan
Quarterly.

David Savran is Professor of Theatre at The Graduate
Center, City University of New York. He has written two books on
masculinity: Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism,
and Contemporary American Culture (1998) and Communists,
Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of
Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams (1992).

R. Adams, Columbia University; D. Savran, City University of New York