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  • Muscle Boys Muscle Boys
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    Muscle Boys

    Muscle Boys: Gay Gym Culture is an inside look at the secret world of exercise and fitness that's become one of the country's fastest growing and most influential gay subcultures. The author, a personal trainer on the San Francisco gym scene for more...
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  • Pickles and Tarts Pickles and Tarts
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    Pickles and Tarts

    "Pickles and Tarts" is a metaphor for men and women. "Tarts" are defined as "a dish baked in a pastry shell" (Merriam-Webster), but it can also be "a promiscuous woman: a woman who has many sexual partners, a prostitute," which is something the young...
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  • Reconstructing Adult Masculinities Reconstructing Adult Masculinities
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    Reconstructing Adult Masculinities

    Over the past two decades, Japan's socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes Within this context, "freeters" - young part-time workers aged between fifteen and thirty-four who are not housewives or students - have emerged into the...
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    I Took Both Roads

    "There is an urgent need for more bisexual men to rise up and be heard. Thank you for contributing your voice to this still small but growing chorus."- Robyn Ochs, co-author, Recognize: the Voices of Bisexual Men Matteson's I Took Both Roads: My Journey...
    $41.00

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    She Wants a Ring--And I Don't Wanna Change a Thing

    James Douglas Barron offers humorous, practical advice for the guy who has trouble making commitment. Telling his one story of dating and engagement, he tackles the problems that plague millions of men: "Is She The One?" "No Other Woman for the Rest of...
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  • Attraction and Attachment Attraction and Attachment
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    Attraction and Attachment

    Here is a fascinating exploration of the powerful forces of attachment and attraction that determine the formation and styles of couples’relationships. What factors attract one person to another? What determines whether or not a healthy...
    $123.00

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  • Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film
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    Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film

    This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular U.S. film of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse, identifying and discussing dominant paradigms and tropes that emerge...
    $113.00

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  • Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy
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    Masculinity in the Contemporary Romantic Comedy

    This volume addresses the growing obsolescence of traditional constructions of masculine identity in popular romantic comedies by proposing an approach that combines gender and genre theory to examine the ongoing radical reconstruction of gender roles in...
    $113.00

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  • Affirmative Reaction Affirmative Reaction
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    Affirmative Reaction

    Affirmative Reaction explores the cultural politics of heteronormative white masculine privilege in the United States. Through close readings of texts ranging from the popular television drama 24 to the Marvel Comics miniseries The Call of Duty, and from...
    $58.00

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  • Very Recent History Very Recent History
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    Very Recent History

    Very Recent History by Choire Sicha is an idiosyncratic and elegant narrative that follows a handful of young men in New York City as they navigate the ruins of money and power in search of love and connection.After the Wall Street crash of 2008, the...
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  • Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa
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    Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa

    Affective Health and Masculinities in South Africa explores how different masculinities modulate substance use, interpersonal violence, suicidality, and AIDS as well as recovery cross-culturally.With a focus on three male protagonists living in very...
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  • Men Who Sell Sex Men Who Sell Sex
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    Men Who Sell Sex

    All over the world, men as well as women exchange sex for money and other forms of reward, sometimes with other men and sometimes with women. In contrast to female prostitution, however, relatively little is known about male sex work, leaving questions...
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  • Studying Men and Masculinities Studying Men and Masculinities
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    Studying Men and Masculinities

    The late-twentieth-century anxiety about a 'crisis in masculinity' still persists today, particularly in English-speaking cultures. Studying Men and Masculinities offers an engaging and comprehensive overview of masculinity. Drawing on a wide...
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  • The Way of Men The Way of Men
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    The Way of Men

    The Way of Men is the book that cracked the code of masculinity. Advertisers create the illusion that masculinity can be bought. States and institutions want men to believe that masculinity is the product of obedience. Some say that masculinity is a...
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  • Progressive Black Masculinities? Progressive Black Masculinities?
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    Progressive Black Masculinities?

    Progressive Black Masculinities brings together leading black cultural critics including Michael Eric Dyson, Mark Anthony Neal, and Patricia Hill Collins to examine an alternatively demonized and mythologized black masculinity.
    $398.00

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  • Imagining Masculinities Imagining Masculinities
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    Imagining Masculinities

    This book examines the intersections between debates in critical studies of men and masculinities and debates on visual representation, investigating representations of men and masculinities in contemporary culture and examples of visual art that...
    $385.00

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  • We Real Cool We Real Cool
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    We Real Cool

    "When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse."In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the...
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  • Men After War Men After War
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    Men After War

    This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity and sexuality in relation to the...
    $410.00

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  • Preserving the White Man's Republic Preserving the White Man's Republic
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    Preserving the White Man's Republic

    In Preserving the White Man's Republic, Joshua Lynn reveals how the national Democratic Party rebranded majoritarian democracy and liberal individualism as conservative means for white men in the South and North to preserve their mastery on the eve of...
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  • Race and Gender in Electronic Media Race and Gender in Electronic Media
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    Race and Gender in Electronic Media

    This volume examines the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. With a focus on race and gender, the chapters represent diverse approaches, including social scientific, humanistic,...
    $398.00

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  • The Modern Man And His Fellow Man (1903) The Modern Man And His Fellow Man (1903)
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    The Modern Man And His Fellow Man (1903)

    ""The Modern Man And His Fellow Man"" is a philosophical and sociological treatise written by Henry Codman Potter in 1903. Potter was an American bishop and theologian, and his book explores the relationship between individuals in modern society. The...
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  • Buffoon Men Buffoon Men
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    Buffoon Men

    Film scholars and fans have used distinctive terms to describe the Classic Hollywood comedian: He is a "trickster," a "rebel," or a "buffoon." Yet the performer is almost always described as a "he." In Buffoon Men:...
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  • Millennial Masculinity Millennial Masculinity
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    Millennial Masculinity

    In virtually every aspect of culture-health, marriage, family, morals, politics, sex, race, economics-American men of the past two decades have faced changing social conditions and confronted radical questions about themselves. In Millennial Masculinity:...
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  • If We Must Die If We Must Die
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    If We Must Die

    In If We Must Die: From Bigger Thomas to Biggie Smalls, author Aimé J. Ellis argues that throughout slavery, the Jim Crow era, and more recently in the proliferation of the prison industrial complex, the violent threat of death has functioned as a...
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  • The Gender and Media Reader The Gender and Media Reader
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    The Gender and Media Reader

    The Gender and Media Reader is an essential text for those interested in gender and media studies, its main topics, debates, and theoretical approaches. The primary objective of this collection is to expand readers' knowledge of how gender operates...
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  • Windows on Life Windows on Life
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    Windows on Life

    Windows on Life is the story of our life-the story of our age and time, the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries. Many of our readers will find in it a touch of their heart and mind. Living in an identical age of history, land and social environment is...
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  • The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition
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    The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition

    Montenegro has been a much neglected part of former Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin Warrior Tradition aims to scrutinize the identity debates in Montenegrin public opinion over the question of membership to NATO and to explore how narratives created for that...
    $92.00

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  • Middle-Aged Gay Men, Ageing and Ageism Middle-Aged Gay Men, Ageing and Ageism
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    Middle-Aged Gay Men, Ageing and Ageism

    Is midlife for gay men the start of a slide towards the rejection, exclusion and misery associated with the spectre of the lonely old queen? Whilst exclusion is possible as gay men age, Middle Aged Gay Men, Ageing and Ageism offers a more nuanced view of...
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  • Black Masculinity in the Obama Era Black Masculinity in the Obama Era
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    Black Masculinity in the Obama Era

    Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Obama era. In the era of the first black president, Barack H. Obama, this book gauges the status of black...
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  • Men, Masculinity, Music and Emotions Men, Masculinity, Music and Emotions
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    Men, Masculinity, Music and Emotions

    This book looks at the historic and contemporary links between music's connection to emotions and men's supposed discomfort with their own emotional experience. Looking at music tastes and distaste, it demonstrates how a sociological analysis of music...
    $294.00

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  • Metrosexual Masculinities Metrosexual Masculinities
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    Metrosexual Masculinities

    Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. This book examines 'metrosexuality', highlighting the negotiation and construction of...
    $116.00

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  • An Intimate History of the Front An Intimate History of the Front
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    An Intimate History of the Front

    The epochal shifts that the First World War effected in political, economic, and intellectual history has long been an object of scholarly inquiry, but the war's impact on ideas of gender and sexuality have received far less attention. This eye-opening...
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  • A More Complete Beast A More Complete Beast
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    A More Complete Beast

    A More Complete Beast is men's writer Jack Donovan's third book in a series that started with the runaway cult hit, The Way of Men. The second book, Becoming a Barbarian, showed disconnected modern men - men born into the anti-identity...
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  • Becoming a Barbarian Becoming a Barbarian
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    Becoming a Barbarian

    Becoming a Barbarian is a follow-up to Donovan's cult hit, The Way of Men.Good, modern, "civilized" Western men today are expected to think like "citizens of the world" - obligated to everyone and no one. Natural, meaningful tribal connections have been...
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  • Walking The Hill Walking The Hill
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    Walking The Hill

    Feeling alone with no sense of purpose? Not sure where you belong?  This is our story of finding direction in a commitment to a healing ritual, a strenuous trail climb. What was intended to be a simple sharing exercise and a time to bond...
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  • The Parts Men Play The Parts Men Play
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    The Parts Men Play

    In this insightful and incisive study of male behavior, Baxter draws on his experience as a journalist and editor to offer a penetrating analysis of the roles and stereotypes that men are expected to adopt in modern society. From the hero and the...
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  • True Words for Brave Men True Words for Brave Men
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    True Words for Brave Men

    Written by influential 19th century clergyman and social reformer Charles Kingsley and his wife Frances, True Words for Brave Men is a collection of essays and meditations aimed at inspiring and uplifting young men of the day. Kingsley writes with...
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  • Agrifood System Transitions in Brazil Agrifood System Transitions in Brazil
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    Agrifood System Transitions in Brazil

    This book explores the agrifood system transitions in Brazil to provide a new understanding of the trajectory of agriculture and rural development in this country. It accentuates the increasing diversifi cation and hybridization of food production and...
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  • Men and the Language of Emotions Men and the Language of Emotions
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    Men and the Language of Emotions

    In Men and the Language of Emotions, Dariusz Galasinski challenges the commonly held association of rationality with masculinity, involving distancing from the language of emotions. Drawing on a major study of heterosexual men talking about their life...
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  • Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment
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    Gender, Informal Institutions and Political Recruitment

    Parliaments around the world are still overwhelmingly populated by men, yet studies of male dominance are much rarer than are studies of female under-representation. In this book, men in politics are the subjects of a gendered analysis. How do men manage...
    $122.00

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  • Acts of Manhood Acts of Manhood
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    Acts of Manhood

    Through his study of American masculinity, Kippola constructs a theatrical history inextricably linked to the dynamic social, political, and cultural changes of the nineteenth-century American stage. The shift from the passionate muscularity of Edwin...
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