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The gender of desire : essays on male sexuality

Summary: "Here, one of the world's pioneers in the field of masculinity studies explores the construction of male sexuality, pornography, and sexual violence. Michael S. Kimmel analyzes what male sexuality is, where it comes from, how it works, what affects it, pornography's impact on it, what fantasies men have about sex, what people think about sex, and how male ideas about sex affect what men actually do. Provocative and wide-ranging, these essays make important contributions to sociology, queer theory, American studies, history, and studies of gender, sexuality, and gay and lesbian issues."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 0791483886
ISBN: 9780791483886
ISBN: 9780791463383
ISBN: 0791463389
ISBN: 9780791463376
ISBN: 0791463370
ISBN: 9781423743750
ISBN: 142374375X
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 272 pages)
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Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Gendering desire -- Masculinity as homophobia : fear, shame, and silence in the construction of gender identity -- The gender of desire : the sexual fantasies of women and men / with Rebecca F. Plante -- Pornography and male sexuality -- Sexual violence in three pornographic media : toward a sociological explanation / with Martin Barron -- Does censorship make a difference? : an aggregate empirical analysis of pornography and rape / with Annulla Linders -- Sexual Balkanization : gender and sexuality as the new ethnicities -- Hard issues and soft spots : counseling men about sexuality / with Jeffrey C. Fracher -- Bisexuality : a sociological perspective / with John H. Gagnon and Cathy Stein Greenblat -- The kindest un-cut : feminism, judaism, and my son's foreskin -- "What's love got to do with it?" : rape, domestic violence, and the making of men -- Gender symmetry in domestic violence : a substantive and methodological research review -- The unnatural history of rape -- Reducing men's violence : the personal meets the political.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Language Note:	English.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.