Masculinity Studies Reader

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 viiEditors’ Acknowledgments xIntroduction 1Rachel Adams and David SavranPart I: Eroticism 9Introduction 91.Some Psychological Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes 9Sigmund Freud2.Masochism and Male Subjectivity 14Kaja Silverman3.Subject Honor, Object Shame 41Roger Lancaster4.The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens 69David HalperinPart II: Social Sciences 77Introduction5.Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight 80Clifford Geertz6.Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity 99Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell, and John Lee7.The Fraternal Social Contract 119Carole Pateman8.The Birth of the Self-made Man 135Michael KimmelPart III: Representations 153Introduction 1539.The Beast in the Closet: James and the Writing of Homosexual Panic 157Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick10.The Woman Warrior versus The Chinaman Pacific: Must a Chinese American Critic Choose between Feminism and Heroism 175King-Kok Cheung11.Skin Head Sex Thing: Racial Difference and the Homoerotic Imaginary 188Kobena Mercer12.Bonds of (In)Difference 201Robyn WiegmanPart IV: Empire and Modernity 227Introduction 22713.The Fact of Blackness 232Frantz Fanon14.The History of Masculinity 245R. W. Connell15.The White Man's Muscles 262Richard Dyer16.What Does a Jew Want? or, The Political Meaning of the Phallus 274Daniel Boyarin17.The Economy of Colonial Desire 292Revathi Krishnaswamy18.Male Gender and Rituals of Resistance in the Palestinian Intifada 318Julie PeteetPart V: Borders 337Introduction 33719.Homosexuality and the Signs of Male Friendship in Elizabethan England 337Alan Bray20.An Introduction to Female Masculinity 355Judith Halberstam21."That Sexe Which Prevaileth" 375Anne Fausto-Sterling22.The Gender of Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes 389Don KulickIndex 408

"These essays are, individually, insightful and often arresting. Taken together, they are prismatic, illuminating this new interdisciplinary area of scholarly inquiry. With this collection, masculinity studies comes of age as an academic field." Michael Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook "This anthology identifies the need in contemporary cultural studies for more elaborate understandings of the relations of various masculinities to power, nation, empire, violence, race, class, and embodiment. The editors must be commended for producing a volume which answers to this need and brings together an eclectic, multidisciplinary, and wide-ranging collection of essays in response. Bound to become required reading in gender studies and beyond!" University of California at San Diego "The instructor-friendly anthology of 22 previously published essays dating primarily from 1970 to 2000, is destined to become a standard in courses on gender and masculinity. Rachel Adams and David Savran have chosen fascinating articles that will be both challenging and accessible to university students at all levels" Journal of Contemporary European Studies "Adams and Savran provide extrcta from a number of key sources that lay the foundations for understanding masculinities through a cultural studies oriented approach" Sexualities