Male impersonators : men performing masculinity /

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Author / Creator:Simpson, Mark
Imprint:London ; New York : Cassell, 1994.
Description:xii, 290 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1624726
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ISBN:0304328065 (hardback) : $70.00
0304328081 (pbk.) : $20.00
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Alan Sinfield
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Big Tits!: Masochism and transformation in bodybuilding
  • 3. Sex Hunters: The 'homosexual' male heterosexual economy
  • 4. Active Sports: The anus and its goal-posts
  • 5. Narcissus Goes Shopping: Homoeroticism and narcissism in men's advertising
  • 6. A World of Penises: Gay videoporn
  • 7. Marky Mark and the Hunky Bunch: The hustler syndrome
  • 8. A Crying Shame: Transvestism and misogyny in The Crying Game
  • 9. Dragging It Up and Down: The glamorized male body
  • 10. Rock and Revolution: Business as usual?
  • 11. Don't Die on Me, Buddy: Homoeroticism and masochism in war movies
  • 12. Top Man: Tom Cruise and the narcissistic male hero
  • 13. Iron Clint: Queer weddings in Robert Bly's Iron John and Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven
  • 14. Popular Men: Manly v. unmanly.