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The Bonds of Love
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 15.96Why do people submit to authority and derive pleasure even others have over them? What is the appeal of domination and submission, and why are they so prevalent in erotic life? Why is it so difficult for men and women to meet as equals? Why, indeed, do hey continue to recapitulate the positions of master and slave? In The Bonds of Love , noted feminist... more...
Navigating Differences
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men is a one-of-a-kind cross-sexual study that shows you how today?s gay and straight men build, maintain, and foster true friendships. In this activist, participatory study, you?ll get a day-in-the-life look at 44 pairs of cross-sexual men?s friendships and see what helps them negotiate... more...
Der perfekte Mann
Zytglogge Verlag 2012; Not AvailableDieses Buch handelt vom Irrweg der männlichen Selbsttäuschung und davon, wie er verlassen werden könnte. Vom angeschlagenen Mann, Top Shot oder Underdog, wie ihn Fäh ? nicht nur in seiner Praxis ? zunehmend resigniert und irritiert antrifft; gescheitert am Wahn, perfekt sein zu müssen. Markus Fäh hat den nötigen Furor und Humor, um den Leckgeschlagenen... more...
Working With Men For Change
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 62.94This is a work that reflects the growing interest in issues relating to men and masculinities. This diverse collection by a team of contributors analyzes the composition and representation of masculine identities. Combining research with theory and strategies for activism, the work promotes practical ways of working with men to achieve change. Intentionally... more...
Embodying Latino Masculinities
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00Through explorations of six cases taken from various Latino ethnic groups, this book advances our understanding about meanings of Latino manhood and masculinities. The studies range from theatre and literature to men's activism and sports, showing how masculinities are embodied and performed. more...
Masculinities, Care and Equality
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 85.00This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men confront this contradictory expectation. more...
Sexual States of Mind
Harris Meltzer Trust 2012; US$ 25.95A ground-breaking psychoanalytic study on sexuality which maintains its originality today, thirty years after its first publication. The book is a revision of psychoanalytic theory, starting with the work of Freud himself and including Melanie Klein's contributions on the early Oedipus Complex and the Depressive Position. But more than that, it is... more...
Male Spaces
Campus Verlag 2012; US$ 32.34Hauptbeschreibung "Archaische Männlichkeit" erscheint einerseits als vollkommen unzeitgemäß, andererseits ist sie in Medien, Politik und Popkultur omnipräsent. Jan G. Grünwald untersucht die Inszenierung von Männlichkeit in der Subkultur Black Metal. Er zeigt auf, wie kriegerische Männlichkeit in Musikvideos erzeugt wird und welche Bedeutung der... more...
Gender and Sexuality
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 34.95Nancy Chodorow, in her groundbreaking book The Reproduction of Mothering , quite simply changed the conversation in at least three areas of study: psychoanalysis, women's studies, and sociology. In her latest book, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality , she examines the complexity and uniqueness of each person's personal creation of sexuality and... more...
The New Arab Man
Princeton University Press 2012; US$ 75.00Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research... more...









