The Masculinity Studies Reader

The Masculinity Studies Reader is a collection of previously published essays that have defined the interdisciplinary study of masculinity. Bringing together scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, this volume serves multiple functions as a teaching companion, introduction to the field, and scholarly resource. Showcasing key theorists, including Kimmel, Silverman, Halperin, Freud, Dyer, Boyarin, and Fanon, the Reader seeks to reconceptualize the masculinity studies debate along the axes of empire, borders, representations, the social sciences, and eroticism, as well as across such diverse fields as film, anthropology, women's studies, sociology, and queer theory. An introductory essay written by the editors frames widely-read and -cited work in a new context that is intended simultaneously to establish the contours of, and to raise questions about, masculinity as a field of academic inquiry.

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).

Acknowledgments

viii

Editors' Acknowledgments

x

Introduction

1

(8)

Rachel Adams

David Savran

PART I: EROTICISM

9

(68)

Introduction

9

(5)

Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes

14

(7)

Sigmund Freud

Masochism and Male Subjectivity

21

(20)

Kaja Silverman

Subject Honor, Object Shame

41

(28)

Roger Lancaster

The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens

69

(8)

David Halperin

PART II: SOCIAL SCIENCES

77

(76)

Introduction

77

(3)

Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

80

(19)

Clifford Geertz

Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity

99

(20)

Tim Carrigan

Bob Connell

John Lee

The Fraternal Social Contract

119

(16)

Carole Pateman

The Birth of the Self-made Man

135

(18)

Michael Kimmel

PART III: REPRESENTATIONS

153

(74)

Introduction

153

(4)

The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic

157

(18)

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism?

175

(13)

King-Kok Cheung

Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary

188

(13)

Kobena Mercer

Bonds of (In)Difference

201

(26)

Robyn Wiegman

PART IV: EMPIRE AND MODERNITY

227

(110)

Introduction

227

(5)

The Fact of Blackness

232

(13)

Frantz Fanon

The History of Masculinity

245

(17)

R. W. Connell

The White Man's Muscles

262

(12)

Richard Dyer

What Does a Jew Want? or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus

274

(18)

Daniel Boyarin

The Economy of Colonial Desire

292

(26)

Revathi Krishnaswamy

Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada

318

(19)

Julie Peteet

PART V: BORDERS

337

(71)

Introduction

337

(3)

Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England

340

(15)

Alan Bray

An Introduction to Female Masculinity

355

(20)

Judith Halberstam

``That Sexe Which Prevaileth''

375

(14)

Anne Fausto-Sterling

The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

389

(19)

Don Kulick

Index

408

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