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1. | | Title: The three-piece suit and modern masculinity: England, 1550-1850Author: Kuchta, David 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: History | European History | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire--and the reasons for its remarkable longevity--in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely illustr . . . [more]Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Musicology and difference: gender and sexuality in music scholarshipAuthor: Solie, Ruth A Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: Addressing Western and non-Western music, composers from Francesca Caccini to Charles Ives, and musical communities from twelfth-century monks to contemporary opera queens, these essays explore questions of gender and sexuality. Musicology and Difference brings together some of the freshest and most . . . [more]Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Going for gold: men, mines, and migrationAuthor: Moodie, T. Dunbar Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Sociology | African Studies | Social Theory | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: This book tells the story of the lives of migrant black African men who work on the South African gold mines, told from their own point of view and, as much as possible, in their own words. Dunbar Moodie examines the operation of local power structures and resistances, changes in production techniqu . . . [more]Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Still a man's world: men who do "women's" workAuthor: Williams, Christine L 1959- Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Sociology | Anthropology | Gender Studies | Women's Studies | Economics and Business | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: Men who do "women's work" have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity. In this eye-opening study, Christine Williams provides a wholly new look at men who work in predominantly female jobs. Having conducted extensive interviews in four cities, Williams u . . . [more]Similar Items | 5. | | | 6. | | Title: Same-sex affairs: constructing and controlling homosexuality in the Pacific NorthwestAuthor: Boag, Peter Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | History | Men and Masculinity | Californian and Western History | Urban Studies | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies | SociologyPublisher's Description: At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young ur . . . [more]Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Tran sforming desire: erotic knowledge in Books III and IV of the Faerie queene Author: Silberman, Lauren Published: University of California Press, 1995 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Poetry | Renaissance LiteraturePublisher's Description: The Faerie Queene anticipates postmodernist concerns with destabilizing language, and Lauren Silberman's stimulating study of Books III and IV of the poem proceeds from the assumption that Spenser has something important to say to us in the late twentieth century.In these books, Spenser exposes fict . . . [more]Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Hanging out in the virtual pub: masculinities and relationships online Author: Kendall, Lori 1958- Published: University of California Press, 2002 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | American Studies | Technology and Society | Anthropology | Electronic Media | Media Studies | Men and MasculinityPublisher's Description: Lori Kendall is one of the first to explore the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is a first-rate analysis of the . . . [more]Similar Items | 9. | | Title: What is sexual harassment?: from Capitol Hill to the SorbonneAuthor: Saguy, Abigail Cope 1970- Published: University of California Press, 2003 Subjects: Gender Studies | American Studies | Anthropology | Ethnic Studies | European Studies | Men and Masculinity | Women's Studies | Law | SociologyPublisher's Description: In France, a common notion is that the shared interests of graduate students and their professors could lead to intimate sexual relations, and that regulations curtailing those relationships would be both futile and counterproductive. By contrast, many universities and corporations in the United Sta . . . [more]Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Sentimental men: masculinity and the politics of affect in American cultureAuthor: Chapman, Mary 1962- Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Popular Culture | History | Men and Masculinity | United States History | Art History | American StudiesPublisher's Description: The essays in this volume analyze a wide variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history from the early republic to the progressive era. Challenging the association of sentimentality exclusively with femininity in studies of Am . . . [more]Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Dearest beloved: the Hawthornes and the making of the middle-class family Author: Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter) 1938- Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: Literature | American Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Women's Studies | Men and Masculinity | Autobiographies and Biographies | American Studies | United States HistoryPublisher's Description: The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne - for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness - was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected . . . [more]Similar Items |
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