Theorizing Masculinities

Harry Brod · Michael Kaufman

Jun 1994 · SAGE Publications

About this ebook

A new field of inquiry and growing interdisciplinary area, men′s studies, is just now beginning to develop its own distinctive methodologies and perspectives as demonstrated in the pages of Theorizing Masculinities. This first major compilation of new theoretical work on men begins by presenting ideas borrowed from the disciplines that have fostered the study of masculinities: sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality. The following chapters explore many issues central to the study of men such as power, ethnicity, feminism, and homophobia. The contributors also provide theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men, such as the military, sports, and the men′s movement. The contributors to this volume come from disciplines as diverse as sociology, political science, industrial relations, philosophy, education, anthropology, gender studies, and literature. Together, they make this benchmark volume the guiding set of theories on masculinities. Theorizing Masculinities is a comprehensive volume that will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars, especially those interested in gender, sociology, social theory, family studies, counseling, and psychology.

About the author

Harry Brod ′s most recent book is Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice and the Jewish-American Way (Free Press, 2012). His previous books are Hegel′s Philosophy of Politics: Idealism, Identity and Modernity (Westview, 1992) and the edited volumes The Making of Masculinities: The New Men′s Studies (Routledge, 1987) and A Mensch Among Men: Explorations in Jewish Masculinity (Crossing Press, 1988), as well as White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories, co-authored with Cooper Thompson and Emmett Schaefer (Duke University Press, 2003), Theorizing Masculinities, co-edited with Michael Kaufman (Sage, 1994), Brother Keepers: New Perspectives on Jewish Masculinity, co-edited with Rabbi Shawn Zevit (Men′s Studies Press, 2010), and the co-edited The Legacy of the Holocaust: Children and the Holocaust (Jagiellonian University Press, 2002). Media Education Foundation produced a DVD of his lecture ′Asking For It: The Ethics and Erotics of Sexual Consent′ (2010). He is Professor of Sociology and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa.Dr. Brod served as Director of the Iowa Regent Universities Men′s Gender Violence Prevention Institute and on the Boards of Directors of Humanities Iowa and the American Men′s Studies Association. He was a member of the Iowa Governor′s Task Force for Responsible Fatherhood and the American Philosophical Association′s Committee on Public Philosophy. He received the Harry Cannon Award for Exemplary and Sustained Contributions to the Field of Men′s Studies from the American College Personnel Association′s Standing Committee for Men and held a Fellowship in Law and Philosophy at Harvard Law School.