Synopses & Reviews
critique of much recent writing on and by men and raises important questions about embodiment, agency and subordinate masculine styles.
The contributors examine the complex relations between desire, sexual orientation, potency, fertility and sexual experience in different social settings, as well as the relation between gender and race, class and age. In both the theoretical and ethnographic chapters, the essayists focus on embodiment, agency and subordinate masculinities and in this way challenge essentialist and constructionist arguments which underwrite dominant ideologies of masculinity. By critically dislocating a singular notion of masculinity, the contributors show how particular versions of masculinity disempower both men and women.
Synopsis
This book draws upon anthropology, feminism and postmodernism to offer a penetrating and challenging study of how gender operates. The book offers a radical critique of much of the recent writing on and by men and raises important questions about emodiment, agency and the variety of masculine styles.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-230) and index.