Nature of Masculinity

Steve Garlick is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. His work has previously appeared in journals such as Body & Society, Philosophy & Social Criticism, Men and Masculinities, and Critical Sociology.

• Introduction: The Nature of Masculinity1 Social Theory, Masculinity, and New Materialisms2 Technologies of Embodiment: Toward a New Critical Theory of Masculinity3 Autoerotic Bodies: Biopolitics, Masculinity, and Nature4 Pornographic Bodies: Affect, Masculinity, and Technology5 Violent Bodies: Complexity and the Spectacle of Masculinity6 The Work of MasculinityReferences; Index

For all of the advances in writing and thinking on men and masculinity, there is often a dramatic paucity of engagement with thinking theoretically through the most fundamental and crucial concepts of the field. It is this type of deep theoretical engagement that is crucial for scholars in this field to continue working through. Unafraid of a challenge, Garlick has pushed the field to think with new scholars and theories, a difficult and necessary thrust that we all can benefit from. - Frank G. Karioris, American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Men and Masculinities) The Nature of Masculinity should be of interest totheoretically informed gender studies scholars and graduate students, particularly those inthe Humanities and social sciences who wish to see theoreticians wh- Todd W. Reeser, University of Pittsburg (International Journal for Masculinity Studies) Garlick's posthumanist approach is interesting as he incorporates contemporary feminist and posthumanist theory, thereby possibly reopening a relatively forgotten dimension of masculinity studies as he extends masculine gender relations in connection to nature, technology and the non-human … Garlick's approach also opens up for an extended view on what masculinity politics could mean both in terms of regressive and progressive change." - Ulf Mellström, editor in chief (NORMA)