Feminism and Masculinities

by Peter F. Murphy (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191533020
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	07/15/2004
Series:	Oxford Readings in Feminism
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	573 KB

About the Author

Peter F. Murphy is the Chair of the Department of English and Philosophy at Murray State University. His most recent book, Studs, Tools and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By, was published in 2001 by the University of Wisconsin Press. In 1994, New York University Press published his edited collection of essays, Fictions of Masculinity: Crossing Cultures, Crossing Sexualities. He is currently editing a book series for the University of Wisconsin Press entitled 'Critical Masculinities'.

Table of Contents

Part 1
1970-1985
1. A Gay Manifesto, Carl Wittman
2. Excerpts from The Socialised Penis, Toward Gender Justice and Learning from Women, Jack Litewka, John Stoltenberg and Bob Lamm
3. Men's Power with Women, Other Men, and Society: A Men's Movement Analysis, Elizabeth Pleck and Joseph Pleck
4. Excerpts from The Limits of Maculinity: Male Identity and Women's Liberation, Andrew Tolson
5. Excerpts from The Achilles Heel Reader: Men, Sexual Politics and Socialism, edited by Victor Seidler
6. Excerpts from White Hero Black Beast: Racism, Sexism and the Mask of Masculinity, Paul Hoch
7. Shop Floor Culture, Masculinity and the Wage Form, Paul Willis
8. Excerpts from Black Masculinity, Robert Staples
9. Excerpts from Holy Virility: The Social Construction of Masculinity, Emmanuel Reynaud
Part 2
1985 - the present
10. Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity, Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell and John Lee
11. Men Loving Men: The Challenge of Gay Liberation, Gary Kinsman
12. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity, Michael Kimmel
13. What is Problematic About Masculinities?, Kenneth Clatterbaugh
14. Displaying the Phallus: Masculinity and the Performance of Sexuality on the Internet, Majorie Kibby and Brigid Costello
15. Racial Warriors and Weekend Warriors: The Construction of Masculinity in Mythopoetic and White Supremacist Discourse, Abby L. Ferber
16. Muslim Brothers, black lads, traditional Asians: British Muslim Young Men's Constructions of Race, Religion and Masculinity, Louise Archer
17. Envisioning (Black) Male Feminism: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Samuel Adu-Poku