This Reader provides an international mixture of the best classic foundational pieces and recent key works that investigate masculinity from a feminist perspective. The chapters examine a wide range of topics including gay liberation, the men's movement, black and working-class masculinities, homophobia and the Internet.
Part 1 1970-1985 1. A Gay Manifesto,Carl Wittman 2. Excerpts from The Socialised Penis, Toward Gender Justice and Learning from Women,Jack Litewka, John Stoltenberg and Bob Lamm 3. Men's Power with Women, Other Men, and Society: A Men's Movement Analysis,Elizabeth Pleck and Joseph Pleck 4. Excerpts from The Limits of Maculinity: Male Identity and Women's Liberation,Andrew Tolson 5. Excerpts from The Achilles Heel Reader: Men, Sexual Politics and Socialism,edited by Victor Seidler 6. Excerpts from White Hero Black Beast: Racism, Sexism and the Mask of Masculinity,Paul Hoch 7. Shop Floor Culture, Masculinity and the Wage Form,Paul Willis 8. Excerpts from Black Masculinity,Robert Staples 9. Excerpts from Holy Virility: The Social Construction of Masculinity,Emmanuel Reynaud Part 2 1985 - the present 10. Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity,Tim Carrigan, Bob Connell and John Lee 11. Men Loving Men: The Challenge of Gay Liberation,Gary Kinsman 12. Masculinity as Homophobia: Fear, Shame and Silence in the Construction of Gender Identity,Michael Kimmel 13. What is Problematic About Masculinities?,Kenneth Clatterbaugh 14. Displaying the Phallus: Masculinity and the Performance of Sexuality on the Internet,Majorie Kibby and Brigid Costello 15. Racial Warriors and Weekend Warriors: The Construction of Masculinity in Mythopoetic and White Supremacist Discourse,Abby L. Ferber 16. Muslim Brothers, blÓ¸