The Bear Book brings together an impressive range of bear--usually
big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans
and flannel shirts--viewpoints to explore this unique social and
cultural phenomenon that stretches from America to western Europe
to Australia On the personal level, you learn what beardom means to
different people in their daily lives, and on a broader level, its
cultural implications for not only the gay community, but also
society as a whole. As this book moves across the wide spectrum of
bear identities, you learn about the defining forces of identity,
the significance of differences among masculinities, and the
shapings of the bear movement from different viewpoints.The Bear
Book is the first compilation of sociological and cultural
analytical investigations of the contemporary gay bear phenomenon.
To this end, Editor Les Wright brings together both objective and
subjective viewpoints to create a forum where bears can speak for
themselves. Through their voices, you ll learn about: bears and
sexual identity gay male iconography socializing on the Internet
sexual politics (gender, class, "looks-ism," and body image) gay
mass media, the single most powerful force in the current
construction of "bears" bears, power, and glamor bear-as-image vs.
bear-as-attitudeGays, lesbians, lesbigay scholars, bears, and
social scientists are sure to find The Bear Book thought-provoking
and insightful as it broaches questions such as: Are bears caught
up in a utopian-romantic impulse to reinvent themselves? What was
radical lesbianism's impact on the bear movement? To what extent
are bears only another group of exploited consumers in a fragmented
market system? And, is it possible to establish social liberation
through enslavement to your sexual passions? For both your pleasure
and your education, The Bear Book examines nearly every corner of
beardom, including bear history, identity, social spaces,
iconography, and its constituency abroad."
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