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The Holocaust and Masculinities
(April 2020)
Critical Inquiries into the Presence and Absence of Men
Björn Krondorfer - Editor
Ovidiu Creangă - Editor
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Critically assesses the experiences of men in the Holocaust.
In recent decades, scholarship has turned to the role of gender in the Holocaust, but rarely has it critically investigated the experiences of men as gendered beings. Beyond the clear observation that most perpetrators of murder were male, men were also victims, survivors, bystanders, beneficiaries, accomplices, and enablers; they negotiated roles as fathers, spouses,...(Read More) |
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Echoes of a Queer Messianic
(April 2018)
From Frankenstein to Brokeback Mountain
Richard O. Block - Author
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Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.
Queer theory has focused heavily on North American and contemporary contexts, but in this book Richard O. Block helps to expand that reach. Deftly combining the two main currents of recent queer theory, the asocial and the reparative, he reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800, while relating his...(Read More) |
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Ghost Faces
(March 2016)
Hollywood and Post-Millennial Masculinity
David Greven - Author
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FINALIST - 2017 Lambda Literary Award in the LGBTQ Nonfiction category, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation
Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.
Ghost Faces explores the insidious nature of homophobia even in contemporary Hollywood films that promote their own homo-tolerance and appear to destabilize hegem...(Read More) |
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Faculty Fathers
(November 2014)
Toward a New Ideal in the Research University
Margaret W. Sallee - Author
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Explores the challenges faculty fathers face in navigating the demands of work and family.
For the past two decades, colleges and universities have focused significant attention on helping female faculty balance work and family by implementing a series of family-friendly policies. Although most policies were targeted at men and women alike, women were intended as the primary targets and recipients. This groundbrea...(Read More) |
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Integral Voices on Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
(August 2014)
Critical Inquiries
Sarah E. Nicholson - Editor
Vanessa D. Fisher - Editor
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Brings the insights of Integral Theory to the consideration of sex, gender, and sexuality.
This volume takes a unique approach to the question of what it is to be a gendered, sexual self in a postmodern world, offering insights informed by the Integral paradigm of theory and practice. With the inquiry into sex, gender, and sexuality having become so broad and diverse within both academia and popular culture, the I...(Read More) |
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Male Beauty
(May 2014)
Postwar Masculinity in Theater, Film, and Physique Magazines
Kenneth Krauss - Author
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Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.
In the decades that followed World War II, Americans searched for and often founds signs of a new masculinity that was younger, sensitive, and sexually ambivalent. Male Beauty examines the theater, film, and magazines of the time in order to illuminate how each one put forward a version of male g...(Read More) |
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Walt Whitman's Mystical Ethics of Comradeship
(March 2010)
Homosexuality and the Marginality of Friendship at the Crossroads of Modernity
Juan A. Hererro Brasas - Author
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Recovers Whitman as a self-conscious religious figure with an ethic based in male comradeship, one at odds with the temper of his times.
A giant of American letters, Walt Whitman is known both as a poet and, to many, as an early precursor of the gay liberation movement. This revealing book recovers for today’s reader a lost Whitman, delving into the original context and intentions of his poetry and pros...(Read More) |
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Resilience
(December 2008)
Queer Professors from the Working Class
Kenneth Oldfield - Editor
Richard Greggory Johnson III - Editor
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First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.
Academia can be overwhelmingly foreign and hostile to those who have poor or working-class backgrounds. For people who are from the working class and also queer, the obstacles to earning a graduate degree may prove insurmountable. Frequently discouraged from attending college in the first place, these students often struggle to pay for...(Read More) |
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The Metrosexual
(July 2008)
Gender, Sexuality, and Sport
David Coad - Author
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Explores the cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports.
How do you explain Dennis Rodman’s dyed hair, tattoos, and pierced body parts? Why are there so many athletes stripping for men’s underwear ads? Besides sport, what do Pat Riley, Alex Rodriguez, and Ian Thorpe have in common? And why has David Beckham been compared to Louis XIV?
In this fascinating exploration of pa...(Read More) |
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Beer, Babes, and Balls
(October 2007)
Masculinity and Sports Talk Radio
David Nylund - Author
Eric Anderson - Foreword by
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Looks at contemporary sports talk radio and its relations to both traditional and newer forms of masculinity.
Beer, Babes, and Balls explores the increasingly popular genre of sports talk radio and how it relates to contemporary ideas of masculinity. Popular culture plays a significant role in fashioning identities, and sports talk radio both reflects and inspires cultural shifts in masculinity. Through anal...(Read More) |
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