Men's Lives, 8th Edition

Edited by two of the field's most prominent researchers, this best-selling reader on men and masculinity contains the most current articles available.

 

Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader takes a life-course perspective, using the idea that men (as well as women) are “gendered” and that this gendering process is a central experience for men.

IN THIS SECTION:

1.) BRIEF

2.) COMPREHENSIVE

 

 

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Part I: Masculinities

Part II: Boyhood

Part III: Collegiate Masculinities: Privilege and Peril

Part IV: Men and Work

Part V: Men and Health: Body and Mind

Part VI: Men in Relationships

Part VII: Male Sexualities

Part VIII: Men in Families

Part IX: Masculinities in the Media and Popular Culture

Part X: Violence and Masculinities

Part XI: Men, Movements, and the Future

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part 1: MASCULINITIES

Editors’ Introduction

1.      Martha McCaughey, “Cavemen Masculinity”*

2.      Barry Deutsch, “The Male Privilege Checklist”*

3.      Yen Le Espiritu, “All Men Are Not Created Equal: Asian Men in U.S. History”

4.      Alfredo Mirande, “‘Macho’ Contemporary Conceptions”

 

Part II: BOYHOOD

Editors’ Introduction

5.      Ellen Jordan, Angela Cowan, “Warrior Narratives in the Kindergarten Classroom: Renogotiating the Social Contract?”

6.      Emily Kane, “No way my boys are going to be like that! Parents’ responses to children’s gender nonconformity”*

7.      C.J. Pascoe, “‘Dude, You’re a Fag’: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse”

8.      Paul Kivel, “The Be a Man Box”

9.      Ritch C. Savin-Williams, “Memories of Childhood and Early Adolescent Sexual Feelings Among Gay and Bisexual Boys”

10.      Ann Ferguson, “Making a Name for Yourself: Transgressive Acts and Gender Performance”

 

Part III: COLLEGIATE MASCULINITIES: PRIVILEGE AND PERIL

Editors’ Introduction

11.      Michael Kimmel, “Guyland: Gendering the Transition to Adulthood”*

12.      Shaun R. Harper, “The Measure of a Man: Conceptualizations of Masculinity among High- Achieving African American Male College Students”

13.      Peter Lyman, “The Fraternal Bond as a Joking Relationship: A Case Study of the Role of Sexist Jokes in Male Group Bonding”

14.      Rocco L. Capraro, “Why College Men Drink: Alcohol, Adventure and the Paradox of Masculinity”

15.      Greg Bortnichak, “The Starbucks Intervention”*

 

Part IV: MEN AND WORK

Editors’ Introduction

16.      Christine L. Williams, “The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the ‘Female’ Professions”

17.      Kevin D. Henson, Jackie Krasas Rogers, “‘Why Marcia You’ve Changed!’ Male Clerical Temporary Workers Doing Masculinity in a Feminized Occupation”

18.      Beth A. Quinn, “Sexual Harassment and Masculinity: The Power and Meaning of ‘Girl Watching’”

19.      Kristen Schilt, “Just one of the guys?: How transman make gender visible at work”*

 

Part V: MEN AND HEALTH: BODY AND MIND

Editors’ Introduction

20.      Don Sabo, “Masculinities and Men’s Health: Moving Toward Post-Superman Era Prevention”

21.      Katherine Slevin and Thomas Linneman, “Old Gay Men’s Bodies”*

22.      Gloria Steinem, “If Men Could Menstruate”

23.      Meika Loe, “Fixing Broken Masculinity: Viagra as a Technology for the Production of Gender and Sexuality”

24.      Monica Casper and Lisa Jean Moore, "It Takes Balls: Lance Armstrong and the Triumph of American Masculinity"*

 

Part VI: MEN IN RELATIONSHIPS

Editors’ Introduction

25.      Karen Walker, “‘I’m not Friends the Way She’s Friends’: Ideological and Behavioral Constructions of Masculinity in Men’s Friendships”

26.      Peter M. Nardi, “The Politics of Gay Men’s Friendships”

27.      David Grazian, “The Girl Hunt: Urban Nightlife and the Performace of Masculinity as Collective Activity”*

28.      Peggy Giordano, Monica Longmore, and Wendy Manning, “Gender and the Meanings of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Focus on Boys”*

 

Part VII: MALE SEXUALITIES

Editors’ Introduction

29.      Michael A. Messner, “Becoming 100 Percent Straight”

30.      M. Rochlin, “The Heterosexual Questionnaire”

31.      Robert Jensen, “A Pornographic World [What is normal?] ”*

32.      Chong-suk Han, “The Don’t Want to Cruise your Type: Gay Men of Color and the Racial Politics of Exclusion”*

33.      Julia O’Connell Davidson, Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor, “Fantasy Islands: Exploring the Demand for Sex Tourism”

 

Part VIII: MEN IN FAMILIES

Editors’ Introduction

34.      Francine M. Deutch, “Strategies Men Use to Resist”

35.      Anne Shelton, Daphne John, “Ethnicity, Race, and Difference: A Comparison of White, Black, and Hispanic Men's Household Labor Time”

36.      Scott Coltrane, “Fathering: Paradoxes, Contradictions and Dilemmas”

37.      Judith Stacey, “Cruising to Familyland: Gay Hypergamy and Rainbow Kinship”

 

 

Part IX: MASCULINITIES IN THE MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE

Editors’ Introduction

38.      Michael A. Messner, Jeffrey Montez de Oca, “The Male Consumer as Loser: Beer and Liquor Ads in Mega Sports Media Events”  

39.      David Nylund, “When in Rome: Heterosexism, Homophobia and Sports Talk Radio”

40.      Sine Anahita and Tamara Mix, “Retrofitting Frontier Masculinity for Alaska's War against Wolves”*

41.      Sarah F. Williams, “'A Walking Open Wound': Emo Rock and the 'Crisis' of Masculinity in America”*

 

Part X: VIOLENCE AND MASCULINITIES

Editors’ Introduction

42.      Nick T. Pappas, Patrick C. McKenry, Beth Skilken Catlett, “Athlete Aggression on the Rink and off the Ice: Athlete Violence and Aggression in Hockey and Interpersonal Relationships”

43.      James Gilligan, “Culture, Gender and Violence: ‘We are Not Women’”

44.      Tim Beneke, “Men on Rape”

45.      Cynthia Enloe, “Wielding Masculinity inside Abu Ghraib: Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal"*

 

Part XI: MEN, MOVEMENTS AND THE FUTURE

Editors’ Introduction

46.      United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Forty-eighty session 1-12 March 2004 “The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality”

47.      Jackson Katz, “More than a few good men”*

48.      Mark Anthony Neal, “The New Black Man”*

49.      Eric Anderson, “'I used to think women were weak': Orthodox Masculinity, Gender Segregation, and Sport”*

50.      Allan Johnson, “Unravelling the Gender Knot”*

 

 

*New to this edition