Medicalized Masculinities

by Dana Rosenfeld, Christopher Faircloth

Overview

When medicalization—the characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailment—first appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science gender scholarship focused on female or genderless bodies. The work on men, health, and medicine was scant and tended to depict masculinity as intrinsically damaging to men's health.

Medicalized Masculinities considers how these threads in scholarship failed to consider the male body adequately and presents cutting-edge research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. Renowned health and gender studies experts examine medicalized conditions such as balding, aging, and other dimensions of the life cycle in the tradition of the sociology of health and gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592130979
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	02/28/2006
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Medicalized Masculinities: The Missing Link?—Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher Alan Faircloth
1. The Viagra Blues: Embracing or Resisting the Viagra Body—Meika Loe
2. Sex the Natural Way: The Marketing of Cialis and Levitra—Chris Wienke
3. The Leaky Male Body: Forensics and the Construction of the Sexual Suspect—Lisa Jean Moore and Heidi Durkin
4. Medicalizing the Aging Male Body: Andropause and Baldness—Julia E. Szymczak and Peter Conrad
5. Dissecting Medicine: Gender Biases in the Discourses and Practices of Medical Anatomy—Alan Petersen and Sam Regan De Bere
6. Making the Grade: The Gender Gap, ADHD, and the Medicalization of Boyhood—Nicky Hart with Noah Grand and Kevin Riley
7. The Sexual Savage: Race Science and the Medicalization of Black Masculinity—Ann Marie Hickey
8. Medicalizing Military Masculinity: Reconstructing the War Veteran in PTSD Therapy—Marisa Smith

Editorial Reviews

"[A]n excellent collection that will be required reading for scholars interested in gender and health. Its clear and lively writing, the wealth of background information in the introduction, and its contributors’ compelling identification and analysis of key sites for the medicalization of masculinity in American today make it a pivotal addition to the fields of medicalization and gender research. Its accessibility and topicality will also make it an excellent teaching resource."
—Archives of Sexual Behavior

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