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Medieval Masculinities
University of Minnesota Press 1994; US$ 60.00This collection of essays examines the ideals and archetypes of men in Medieval times and how these concepts have affected the definition of masculinity and its place in history. more...
Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 248.00This Encyclopedia is the comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world and across three dimensions: areas of personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and historical contexts and formations. more...
"May the Best Man Win"
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 33.00A comprehensive social and cultural history of sport in the British empire and its relationship to constructions of masculinity and national identity in Great Britain, Ireland, India, Australia and the West Indies 1880-1935. more...
African Masculinities
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 115.00While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities. This volume explores what it means for an African to be masculine and how male identity is shaped by cultural forces. The editors believe that to tackle the important questions in Africa-the many forms of violence (wars, genocides,... more...
Save the Males
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00With piercing wit and perceptive analysis, Pulitzer Prize?winning writer Kathleen Parker explores how men, maleness, and fatherhood have been under siege in American culture for decades. She argues that the feminist movement veered off course from its original aim of helping women achieve equality and ended up making enemies of men. The pendulum has... more...
Islamic Masculinities
Zed Books 2006; US$ 36.95This innovative book outlines the great complexity, variety and difference of male identities in Islamic societies. From the Taliban orphanages of Afghanistan to the cafés of Morocco, from the experience of couples at infertility clinics in Egypt to that of Iraqi conscripts, it shows how the masculine gender is constructed and negotiated in the... more...
The Trials of Masculinity
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male. "Inherently interesting. . . . Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their place here."— Library Journal "An appealing... more...
Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 30.00Investigates the effects of fatherlessness on the societies, cultures, politics and families of the ancient Mediterranean world. more...
The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 27.50What did it mean to be a man in medieval England? Most would answer this question by alluding to the power and status men enjoyed in a patriarchal society, or they might refer to iconic images of chivalrous knights. While these popular ideas do have their roots in the history of the aristocracy, the experience of ordinary men was far more complicated.... more...
Sex in Cyberspace
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 99.95Sex in Cyberspace offers a bold and provocative, yet sensitively written, account of an under-investigated area of sociological enquiry. It is the first empirically-based study on the experiences of men who pay for sex and presents information which is otherwise extremely difficult to obtain. Shedding new light on men's sexual identity, Sex in... more...









