Gender of Desire

Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He has written and edited many books, including The History of Men: Essays on the History of American and British Masculinities, also published by SUNY Press, and The Gendered Society, Second Edition. He is also the editor of Men and Masculinities, a leading journal in the field.

• Preface AcknowledgmentsI. The Construction of Male Sexual Desire1 Gendering Desire2 Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame, and Silence in the Construction of Gender IdentityII. In Our Dreams: Sexual Fantasy and Sexual Representation 3 The Gender of Desire: The Sexual Fantasies of Women and Men with Rebecca F. Plante4 Pornography and Male Sexuality5 Sexual Violence in Three Pornographic Media: Toward a Sociological Explanation with Martin Barron6 Does Censorship Make a Difference? An Aggregate Empirical Analysis of Pornography and Rape with Annulla LindersIII. From Fantasy to Reality: Sexual Identity and Sexual Behavior 7 Sexual Balkanization: Gender and Sexuality as the New Ethnicities8 Hard Issues and Soft Spots: Counseling Men about Sexuality with Jeffrey C. Fracher9 Bisexuality: A Sociological Perspective with John H. Gagnon and Cathy Stein Greenblat10 The Kindest Un-Cut: Feminism, Judaism, and My Son’s ForeskinIV. Sex and Violence 11 "What’s Love Got to Do with It?" Rape, Domestic Violence, and the Making of Men12 Gender Symmetry in Domestic Violence: A Substantive and Methodological Research Review13 The Unnatural History of Rape14 Reducing Men’s Violence: The Personal Meets the Political NotesReferencesIndex