The Masculinity Studies Reader

Acknowledgments vii

Editors' Acknowledgments x

Introduction 1
Rachel Adams and David Savran

Part I: Eroticism 9

Introduction 9

1.Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes 9
Sigmund Freud

2.Masochism and Male Subjectivity 14
Kaja Silverman

3.Subject Honor, Object Shame 41
Roger Lancaster

4.The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens 69
David Halperin

Part II: Social Sciences 77

Introduction

5.Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 80
Clifford Geertz

6.Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity 99
Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell, and John Lee

7.The Fraternal Social Contract 119
Carole Pateman

8.The Birth of the Self-made Man 135
Michael Kimmel

Part III: Representations 153

Introduction 153

9.The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic 157
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

10.The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism 175
King-Kok Cheung

11.Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary 188
Kobena Mercer

12.Bonds of (In)Difference 201
Robyn Wiegman

Part IV: Empire and Modernity 227

Introduction 227

13.The Fact of Blackness 232
Frantz Fanon

14.The History of Masculinity 245
R. W. Connell

15.The White Man's Muscles 262
Richard Dyer

16.What Does a Jew Want? or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus 274
Daniel Boyarin

17.The Economy of Colonial Desire 292
Revathi Krishnaswamy

18.Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada 318
Julie Peteet

Part V: Borders 337

Introduction 337

19.Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England 337
Alan Bray

20.An Introduction to Female Masculinity 355
Judith Halberstam

21."That Sexe Which Prevaileth" 375
Anne Fausto-Sterling

22.The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 389
Don Kulick

Index 408

"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