Constructing Masculinity

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Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson
Routledge, Sep 10, 2012 - Art - 350 pages
This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
What is Masulinity?
9
Masculinity And Representation
67
How Science Defines Men
125
Masclinity And The Rule Of Law
191
Male Subjectivity And Responsibility
265
Contributors
322
Bibliography
324
Photo Credits
331
Index
332
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Maurice Berger is Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York. Simon Watson is the founding director of The Contemporary Art Institute of New York, sponsor of the annual SoHo Arts Festival. Brian Wallis is a cultural critic, living in New York. He has written extensively on contemporary art, and is the editor of numerous books, including Art After Modernism (1984), and Rock My Religion: Writing and Art Projects by Dan Graham (1994).

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