Philip Purvis teaches at d'Overbroeck's College, Oxford, UK.

• Introduction Philip Purvis 1. Performing Masculinity / Masculinity in Performance Kate Whittaker Part I : Voicing Masculinity 2. Soprano Masculinities Susan McClary 3. Pitch Fever: The Castrato, the Tenor, and the Question of Masculinity in Nineteenth Century Opera Freya Jarman 4. Russian Opera Rebels: Fyodor Komissarzhevsky, Nikolai Figner, and the Rise of the Tenor Antihero Juliet Forshaw 5. Enrico Caruso: Operatic-Phonographic Crooner Karen Henson 6. The Erotics of Masculinity in Zeffirelli’s Film Otello Marcia J. Citron Part II: Troubling Masculinity 7. Saint-Saëns’s Samson Kevin Kopelson 8. More Cases of Wagner Peter Franklin 9. Britten and the Deadlock of Identity Politics J.P.E. Harper-Scott 10. Troubling Gender and Identity in W.A. Mozart’s Zaide and Chaya Czernowin’s Adama Martin Iddon Part III: Troubled Masculinity 11. Opera’s Unconscious, or What Men Don’t Say Ian Biddle 12. Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man Linda and Michael Hutcheon 13. The ‘Crisis’ of Masculinity in Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tirésias Philip Purvis

"...a thought-provoking book. It takes positions that arise out of recent discussions of the ethic of care and defends them in careful and thorough ways that make these positions available for the attention and scrutiny they deserve. Whether or not one is fully persuaded by this account, anyone interested in the possibilities of an ethics of need will benefit from reading it." - Grace Clement, Salisbury University, USA, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews