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.

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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