Constructing Masculinity is an anthology of 21 original texts based
on presentations at the Constructing Masculity conference held at
the DIA Center for the Arts in New York.
Constructing Masculinities is organized into five discursive areas
addressed by leading academics, social and applied scientists,
legal scholars, poets, activists and cultural critics. "What is
Masculinity?" questions society's normative standards of the
masculine and contemplates the extent to which men and women can
transcend these stereotypes and proscriptions; "Masculinity and
Representation" explores the ways in which representations of
masculinity and maleness in the media and the arts produce,
challenge and ultimately shape notions of the masculine; "How
Science Defines Men" and "Masculinity and the Rule of Law" consider
masculinity in relationship to science and law, two dominant social
institutions that play a vital role in constructing stereotypes and
establishing gendered power relationships; "Male Subjectivity and
Responsibilty" asks how an informed and activist notion of
masculinity can contribute to the political debates about identity
and power.
Constructing Masculinity takes us beyond the notion of "men in
feminism" to a more radical rethinking of the status of masculinity
itself. Men must do more than admit their complicity in the
patriarchy; they must begin to rethink the very boundaries that
shape and define what it means to be a man. Conversely, women must
play an important role in this reevaluation, an idea suggested by
Eve KosofskySedgwick's admonition that "when something is about
masculinity, it isn't always about men."' Far from being just about
men, Constructing Masculinity engages, inflicts upon, and has vital
meaning for all members of society.
Contributors: Stanley Aronowitz, Derrick Bell, Leo Bersani, Homi
Bhabha, Marcellus Blount, Judith Butler, Richard Delgado and Jean
Stefancic, Barbara Ehrenreich, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Richard Fung,
Sander Gilman, Marjorie Heins, bell hooks, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eve
Kosofsky Sedgwick, Carrie Mai, Philomena Mariani, Andrew Ross,
Sapphire, Paul Smith, Abagail Solomon-Godeau, Michael Taussig,
Kendall Thomas, Carole Vance, Michele Wallace, Simon Watney,
Patricia Williams, George Yudice
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