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Plural Masculinities
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95Combining an empirical study based in Portugal with cross-national analyses of attitudes towards ideal gender arrangements in Europe and the USA, Plural Masculinities examines the various ways in which men come to define their identities and will appeal to those working in the fields of masculinities, gender studies and the sociology of the family. more...
Re-Thinking Men
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2009; US$ 119.95Much writing on men in the field of gender studies tends to focus unduly, almost exclusively, on portraying men as villains and women as victims in a moral bi-polar paradigm, Re-Thinking Men reverses the proclivity. With the development of a comparative and revised gender perspective drawing on US, Canadian and UK sources, this book will be of interest... more...
Muscle Boys
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 34.95What was once a lifestyle for a small number of gay men in big cities has become a way of life for many, and the gay gym is now a culture on its own. Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture explores the evolution and current structure of this gay subculture that surfaced in San Francisco, West Hollywood, and New York during the 1970s. Covering ancient... more...
Gaydar Culture
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95Popular culture has recognized urban gay men's use of the web over the last ten years, yet to date, the relationship between urban gay male culture and digital media technologies has received only limited critical attention. Gaydar Culture fills this gap by offering a timely intervention into the fields of digital media studies, cultural studies... more...
The Dangerous Book for Middle-Aged Men
Random House 2010; US$ 10.67So your husband/boyfriend/partner (delete as necessary) has just tipped over 35/40/45/50 (delete as necessary) and you can see that he's not quite as keen on Emmerdale as he once was. He's started to dress with his jeans hoiked too high like his hero Jeremy Clarkson and he's bought a home gym - the one recommended by George Clooney. Then there are... more...
The Hearts of Men
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95An explanation of recent sexual culture and the loosening of marriage bonds over the past 20 years. more...
The Soul Beneath the Skin
St. Martin's Press 2002; US$ 17.99This surprising and thought-provoking book begins with the obvious fact that Stonewall happened 30 years ago, and the perhaps less obvious fact that in the 30 years since an enormous number of social science studies have been done on gay men. Dave Nimmons proceeds to synthesize that information to reveal a number of unseen patterns of gay male behavior,... more...
Search and Destroy
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 26.00This book addresses widespread social assumptions associating crime and the imprisonment of African-American men. more...
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.00"This is a book of stories," writes Henry Louis Gates, "and all might be described as 'narratives of ascent.'" As some remarkable men talk about their lives, many perspectives on race and gender emerge. For the notion of the unitary black man, Gates argues, is as imaginary as the creature that the poet Wallace Stevens conjured in his poem "Thirteen... more...
Being a Black Man
PublicAffairs 2007; US$ 16.99A revealing portrait of black men in America explores their lives and experiences with unusual depth and clarity more...









