In this series of fascinating and provocative essays, Fred Pfeil exposes the contradictions and constituencies in the ongoing reconstruction of white heterosexual masculinity during the 1980s and 1990s.
Masculinity
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Author:Pfeil, FredSummary: - Author:Mucina, Devi DeeSummary:
Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee Mucina is a Black Indigenous Ubuntu...
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Author:hooks, bellSummary:In a social and cultural analysis, the author explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of men's most common concerns, including a fear of intimacy and the loss of their patriarchal place in society, arguing...
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Author:Knox, MichaelSummary:With The North End Poems, his always vivid new collection, Michael Knox has further honed his lucid, accessible style. In the tradition of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Michael Ondaatje’s classic book-length...
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Author:Garlick, SteveSummary:This analysis of the relationship between gender and nature proposes that masculinity is a technology that shapes both our engagement with the natural world and how we define freedom. As the complexity of our ecosystems becomes more...
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Author:Connell, R.W.Summary:In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men's gender to problems as diverse as road accidents...
- Author:Betancourt, ManuelSummary:
Manuel Betancourt has long lustfully coveted masculinity-in part because he so lacked it. As a child in Bogotá, Colombia, he grew up with the social pressure to appear strong, manly, and, ultimately, straight. And yet in the films and...
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Author:Coady, LynnSummary:From bestselling novelist Lynn Coady comes an unforgettable, unflinching story of a life gone wrong.
- Author:Currie, RobertSummary:
Robert Currie's Shimmers of Light: New and Selected Poems uses the vernacular of ordinary working people to tell stories and sing songs of small-town prairie life. Like Alden Nowlan, or more recently, Billy Collins, this poet constructs...
- Author:Pollack, William S.Summary:
Explains why--and also tells how to rescue boys and help them become more confident and expressive men. Pollack explores how conventional expectations about manhood and masculinity encourage people to treat boys like "little men",...
- Author:Joseph, FrederickSummary:
In this thought-provoking collection of essays, poems, and short reflections, Frederick Joseph explores issues of masculinity and patriarchy from both a personal and cultural standpoint. From fatherhood, and "manning up" to...
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Qu'est-ce qu'un homme? Nait-on homme, ou le devient-on? Si l'on admet une definition beaucoup plus large de la masculinite, comment l'homme contemporain se reconnait-il homme? Que deviendra la masculinite au XXIe...
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Author:Vacante, JefferySummary:This perceptive intellectual history explores the role of manhood in French Canadian culture and nationalism. In the late nineteenth century, Quebec was still an agrarian society and masculinity was rooted in the land and the family and...
- Author:West, Adrian NathanSummary:
A son's relationship with his divorced father has disintegrated over the years. But when the father enters a bodybuilding competition, he asks his son's help to fit in with his antiquated notions of manhood.
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Author:Gossage, Peter, Rutherdale, RobertSummary:What has it meant to be a man in Canada? Percy Nobbs, architect, fisherman, fencer; Andy Paull, residential school survivor and athlete; Yves Charbonneau, jazz musician and commune member; “James,” black and gay in postwar Windsor. Who...
- Author:Phaneuf, YvanSummary:
Ce livre est le résultat d’une étude qui porte sur le contenu du cœur masculin et qui a été initiée à partir de la question « Comment et pourquoi, moi, en tant que mâle, je cache mes émotions? » L’auteur s’ouvre à vous avec complicité,...
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Author:Summary:This new interdisciplinary reader is one of the only texts that explores men and masculinity issues within a distinctly Canadian context. Featuring sixteen original essays by leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this...
- Author:Bialik, MayimSummary:
Mayim Bialik, Jeopardy! host and star of The Big Bang Theory and author of the #1 bestseller Girling Up, puts her Ph.D. to work to talk to teen boys about the science and pressures of growing up male in today's world. A must-have...
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Author:Sandborn, CalvinSummary:The macho society that held John Wayne as a role model has created an emotional wasteland where eighty percent of men are unable to accurately express their feelings, and where that same percentage feel estranged from their fathers. The...
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Author:Béchard, Deni EllisSummary:"A Song from Faraway is a collection of stories that address masculinity, identity, the impact of war, and fatherhood"--
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