Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Themes and theses of men's studies / Harry Brod -- 1. Overviews -- The theory of male sex-role identity : its rise and fall, 1936 to the present / Joseph H. Pleck -- The case for men's studies / Harry Brod -- Toward a new sociology of masculinity / Tom Carrigan, Bob Connell, John Lee -- II. History and danger -- The secrets of men's history / Peter Filene -- The contemporary "crisis" of masculinity in historical perspective / Michael S. Kimmel -- Surviving the institutional decimation of Black males : causes, consequences, and intervention / Clyde W. Franklin II -- III. Work and play -- The male career code and the ideology of role / Richard L. Ochberg -- The meaning of success : the athletic experience and the development of male identity / Michael Messner -- IV. Social and biological bonding -- The bonds of men : problems and possibilities in close male relationships / Drury Sherrod -- Gilgamesh and the Sundance Kid : the myth of male friendship / Dorothy Hammond and Alta Jablow -- Biologic influences on masculinity / Perry Treadwell -- V. Literary passions -- Rereading American literature from a men's studies perspective : some implications / James D. Riemer -- Howells, Stoddard, and male homosocial attachment in Victorian America / John W. Crowley -- Byron and male love : the classical tradition / Louis Crompton.
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