This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.Maurice Bergeris Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York. Simon Watsonis the founding director of The Contemporary Art Institute of New York, sponsor of the annual SoHo Arts Festival. Brian Wallisis a cultural critic, living in New York. He has written extensively on contemporary art, and is the editor of numerous books, including Art After Modernism(1984), and Rock My Religion: Writing and Art Projects by Dan Graham(1994).