Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity
Language: English
Published by Routledge, 1994
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: JW Barker Books & Antiques, Natchez, MS, U.S.A.JW Barker Books & Antiques
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Near fine trade paperback shows light shelf and trace wear along with touch of soil at page egdes. 290 pages. Still an attractive copy of this work that ".explores the range of male life and masculinity, posing witty and important questions about bodybuilding, tattoos, pornography, cruising, advertising, and team sports.".
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- Title
- Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity
- Author
- Simpson, Mark
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0415909910
- ISBN 13
- 9780415909914
- Seller catalogs
- Sociology-Gender
Why is bodybuilding a form of transsexualism? What do football and anal sex have in common? Why is Top Gun such an flamingly 'gay' movie? Why is male vanity such a hot commodity? And why oh why do Marky Mark's pants keep falling down?
In this highly influential book Mark Simpson argues for the vital centrality of homoeroticism and narcissism in any understanding of the fraught phenomenon of modern masculinity.Male Impersonators is a penetrating, ticklish but always serious examination of what happens to men when they become 'objectified'.
From porn to shaving adverts, rock and roll to war movies, drag to lads' nights out, Male Impersonators reviews the greatest show on Earth - the performance of masculinity.
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Review
–Choice
Simpson pulls the pants off popular culture and wittily winks at the Freudian symbols lurking beneath. Arnie's rumpsteak in cute combat cut-offs, Markey Mark as the Calvin Klein kid, Elivis's pomaded pompadour, Tom Cruise's baseball bat--there's a homo-erotic panto playing near you..
–The Modern Review
Discussions of masculinity have hitherto been characterized by a timid tone of pious apology--here at last is the antidote to that all-too-sombre debate. Sharp, astute and decidedly spunky, Simpson's essays are guaranteed to amuse, provoke and illuminate..
–Andy Medhurst, University of Sussex
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