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Masculinities in Contemporary Culture

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Masculinities in Contemporary Culture
Edited ByPaul Smith
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1996
eBook Published 27 September 2019
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429039072
Pages 336
eBook ISBN 9780429039072
Subjects Social Sciences
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Smith, P. (Ed.). (1996). Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429039072

ABSTRACT

Analyzing the meanings of masculinity in contemporary culture, this book examines specific cultural male icons like Muhammad Ali, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Newt Gingrich and explores the male stereotypes such as the cowboy, the father, the homosexual, and the Black terror.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|7 pages

Introduction

ByPaul Smith

chapter 2|14 pages

A Buffalo, New York Story

ByFred Pfeil

chapter 3|15 pages

Father Figure

ByDanae Clark

chapter 4|10 pages

Dinge

ByRobert Reid-Pharr

chapter 5|31 pages

Homo Academicus

ByJohn Champagne

chapter 6|15 pages

Male Horror: On David Cronenberg

ByChristine Ramsay

chapter 7|16 pages

Telling Differences: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in The Crying Game

BySharon Willis

chapter 8|17 pages

Scattered Speculations on the Value of Harvey Keitel

ByClint Burnham

chapter 9|19 pages

Hot Damme! Reflections on Gay Publicity

ByEric Clarke, Mathew Henson

chapter 10|20 pages

The Prettiest Postcolonial: Muhammad Ali

ByGrant Farred

chapter 11|27 pages

“Beat me outta me”: Alternative Masculinities

ByCynthia Fuchs

chapter 12|20 pages

Prosthetic Gender and Universal Intellect: Stephen Hawking's Law

ByJohn Michael

chapter 13|36 pages

Conservative Cowboy Stories: Adventures of the Chosen Sons

ByLinda Kintz

chapter 14|37 pages

Of Newts and Quayles: National-Political Masculinity in the Current Conjuncture

ByMatthew Ruben

chapter 15|16 pages

A White Boy Is Being Beaten

ByLisa Frank
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