This Reader provides an international mixture of the best classic foundational pieces and recent key works that investigate masculinity from a feminist perspective. The chapters examine a wide range of topics including gay liberation, the men's movement, black and working-class masculinities, homophobia and the Internet.
Author(s): Peter F. Murphy
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 304
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Introduction......Page 18
Part I: 1970–1985......Page 40
1. On Male Liberation......Page 42
2. A Gay Manifesto......Page 45
3. Toward Gender Justice......Page 58
4. Learning from Women......Page 67
5. Men’s Power with Women, Other Men, and Society: A Men’s Movement Analysis......Page 74
6. The Limits of Masculinity......Page 86
7. Hopes and Dreams: Creating a Men’s Politics......Page 97
8. White Hero Black Beast: Racism, Sexism and the Mask of Masculinity......Page 110
9. Shop Floor Culture, Masculinity and the Wage Form......Page 125
10. Black Masculinity: The Black Male’s Role in American Society......Page 138
11. Holy Virility: The Social Construction of Masculinity......Page 153
Part II: 1985–The Present......Page 166
12. Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity......Page 168
13. Men Loving Men: The Challenge of Gay Liberation......Page 182
14. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity......Page 199
15. What Is Problematic about Masculinities?......Page 217
16. Displaying the Phallus: Masculinity and the Performance of Sexuality on the Internet......Page 231
17. Racial Warriors and Weekend Warriors: The Construction of Masculinity in Mythopoetic and White Supremacist Discourse......Page 245
18. ‘Muslim Brothers, Black Lads, Traditional Asians’: British Muslim Young Men’s Constructions of Race, Religion and Masculinity......Page 261
19. Envisioning (Black) Male Feminism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective......Page 272
Further Reading......Page 289
B......Page 298
E......Page 299
H......Page 300
M......Page 301
O......Page 302
R......Page 303
S......Page 304
Z......Page 305
