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Aims
Objectives
By the end of the course unit, the successful student will have demonstrated:
Content
The course will examine the development and deployment of masculine identities in America from 1800 onwards. It will look at the social, political, cultural, and economic underpinnings of male roles, and their relation to the formation of American culture, in a number of historical eras. Issues to be addressed will include race, region, class, ethnicity, sexuality, and popular culture, and the course will utilise written texts, visual culture, film, and music.
Readings
The basic textbooks for the course are E. Anthony Rotundo’s American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era and Susan Faludi’s Stiffed: The Betrayal of Modern Man. Both are available for purchase at Blackwell's bookstore in the Precinct Centre or from Amazon.
Teaching method
One two-hour seminar per week.
Contacting me
My office is located in Room N.2.8 of the Arts Faculty Building, and my office hours are posted on the door. You can also contact me by phone at 275-7073, by e-mail at natalie.a.zacek@man.ac.uk, or by leaving a notice in my pigeonhole in the American Studies office.
Assessment By coursework (one 2,500-word essay) (50%) and 2-hour written examination (50%).
| Week 1 | Introduction: theorising masculinity |
| R.W. Connell, “The Social Organization of Masculinity,” in Stephen Whitehead and Frank Barrett, eds., The Masculinities Reader | |
| Nancy F. Cott, “Men’s History and Women’s History,” in Mark Carnes and Clyde Griffen, eds., Meanings for Manhood: Constructions of Masculinity in Victorian America | |
| E. Anthony Rotundo, “Introduction,” in Rotundo, American Manhood | Week 2 | Patriarchs and prodigals: the memory and meaning of the American Revolution |
| Ruth Bloch, “The Gendered Meaning of Virtue in Revolutionary America,” Signs 13 (1987): 37-58 (OL) | |
| Wayne Bodle, “Soldiers in Love: Patrolling the Gendered Frontiers of the Early Republic,” in Merril D. Smith, ed., Sex and Sexuality in Early America | |
| Ellen Carol DuBois, “Outgrowing the Compact of the Fathers: Equal Rights, Woman Suffrage, and the United States Constitution, 1820-1878,” Journal of American History 74 (1987): 836-862 (OL) | |
| Jay Fliegelman, "George Washington and the Reconstituted Family," in Fliegelman, Prodigals and Pilgrims: The American Revolution Against Patriarchal Authority | |
| Joanne B. Freeman, “Dueling as Politics: Reinterpreting the Burr-Hamilton Duel,” William and Mary Quarterly 53 (1996): 289-318 (OL) | |
| Joan R. Gundersen, “Independence, Citizenship, and the American Revolution,” Signs 13 (1987): 59-76 (OL) | |
| Mark E. Kann, “The Founders’ Gendered Legacy,” in Kann, A Republic of Men: The American Founders, Gendered Language, and Patriarchal Politics | |
| Linda Kerber, "The Inheritance of the Enlightenment," in Kerber, Women of the Republic: Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America | |
| Jesse Lemisch, "Jack Tar in the Streets: Merchant Seamen in the Politics of Revolutionary America," William and Mary Quarterly 25 (1968): 371-407 (OL) | |
| Jan Lewis, “’The Blessings of Domestic Society’: Thomas Jefferson’s Family and the Transformation of American Politics,” in Peter Onuf, ed., Jeffersonian Legacies (X) | |
| Jan Lewis, “The Republican Wife: Virtue and Seduction in the Early Republic,” William and Mary Quarterly 44 (1987): 689-721 (OL) | |
| Janet Moore Lindman, “Acting the Manly Christian: White Evangelical Masculinity in Revolutionary Virginia,” William and Mary Quarterly 57 (2000), 393-416 (OL) | |
| Michael Rogin, “Andrew Jackson: The Family Romance,” in Rogin, Fathers and Children: Andrew Jackson and the Destruction of the American Indian | |
| Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, “Coquettes and Revolutionaries in Early America," in Elaine Scarry, ed., Literature and the Body | |
| Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, “Dis-Covering the Subject of the ‘Great Constitutional Discussion’," Journal of American History 79 (1992): 841-873 (OL) | |
| Mason Weems, “The Character of Washington,” in Weems, The Life of Washington | |
| Alfred Young, “George Robert Twelves Hewes: A Boston Shoemaker and the Memory of the American Revolution,” William and Mary Quarterly 38 (1981): 561-623 (OL) | |
| Rosemarie Zagarri, “The Rights of Men and Women in Post-Revolutionary America,”William and Mary Quarterly 55 (1998):203-230 (OL) | |
| Week 3 | Chants democratic: masculinity and class formation in the early American republic |
| Patricia Cline Cohen, “Unregulated Youths: Masculinity and Murder in the 1830s City,” Radical History Review 52 (1992): 33-52 | |
| Susan Davis, “’Making Night Hideous’: Christmas Revelry and Public Disorder in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia,” American Quarterly 34 (1982); 185-199 | |
| Toby L. Ditz, “Shipwrecked, or, Masculinity Imperiled: Mercantile Representations of Failure and the Gendered Self in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia,” Journal of American History 81(1994): 51-80 (OL) | |
| Nicole Etcheson, “Manliness and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1790-1860,” Journal of the Early Republic 15 (1995): 59-77 | |
| Karen Halttunen, "The Era of the Confidence Man," in Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle Class Culture in America | |
| Karen Hansen, “’Our Eyes Beheld Each Other’: Masculinity and Intimate Friendship in Antebellum New England,” in Peter Nardi, ed., Men’s Friendships | |
Nathaniel Hawthorne, My Kinsman, Major Molineux | |
| Paul E. Johnson, “The Modernization of Mayo Greenleaf Patch: Land, Family, and Marginality in New England, 1766-1818,” New England Quarterly 55 (1982): 488-516 (OL) | |
Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener | |
| Mary P. Ryan, "Privacy and the Making of the Self-Made Man," in Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865 | |
| Asa Sheldon, Yankee Drover: Being the Unpretending Life of Asa Sheldon, Farmer, Trader, and Working Man, 1788-1870 | |
| Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, “The Female World of Love and Ritual,” in Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America | |
| Sean Wilentz, "Artisan Republicanism," in Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Formation of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 | |
| Week 4 | Go west, young man: putting the “man” in “manifest destiny” |
| Durwood Ball, “Cool to the End: Public Hangings and Western Manhood,” in Matthew Basso, et al., eds., Across the Great Divide : Cultures of Manhood in the American West | |
| Dee Brown, “Standing Bear Becomes a Person,” in Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West | |
| Joan Cashin, "In Search of Manly Independence" and "To Live Like Fighting Cocks," in Cashin, A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier | |
| Edward Curtis, The North American Indians | |
| Robert Murray Davis, “The Virginian: Inventing the Westerner,” in Davis, Playing Cowboys: Low Culture and High Art in the Western | |
| Philip Deloria, “Fraternal Indians and Republican Identities,” in Deloria, Playing Indian | |
| Leonard Dykstra, "The Adjustment to Violence," in Dykstra, The Cattle Towns | |
| John Mack Faragher, "Masculine Men and Feminine Women," in Faragher, Women and Men on the Overland Trail | |
| Mary Jemison, Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison | |
| Susan Lee Johnson, “Bulls, Bears, and Dancing Boys: Race, Gender, and Leisure in the California Gold Rush,” in Matthew Basso, et al., eds., Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West | |
| Brian Klopotek, “’I Guess Your Warrior Look Doesn’t Work Every Time’: Challenging Indian Masculinity in the Cinema,” in Matthew Basso, et al., eds., Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West | |
| Patricia Nelson Limerick, "The Persistence of Natives," in Limerick, The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West | |
| Michael Rogin, Fathers and Children, part 2 | |
| William Roscoe, “’Strange Country This’: An Introduction to North American Gender Diversity,” in Roscoe, Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America | |
| Henry Nash Smith, "Book Two: The Sons of Leatherstocking," in Nash, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth | |
| Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, “Davy Crockett as Trickster,” in Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America | |
| Jane Tompkins, “Women and the Language of Men,” in Tompkins, West of Everything: The Inner Life of Westerns | |
| Peter Van Lent, “’Her Beautiful Savage’: The Current Sexual Image of the Native American Male,” in S. Elizabeth Bird, ed., Dressing in Feathers: The Construction of the Indian in American Popular Culture | |
| Walter L. Williams, "Seafarers, Cowboys, and Indians: Male Marriage in Fringe Societies on the Anglo-American Frontier," in Williams, The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture | |
| Week 5 | Am I not a man and a brother?: the making of black manhood |
| Derrick Bell, “The Race-Charged Relationship of Black Men and Black Women,” in Maurice Berger, et al., eds., Constructing Masculinity | |
| John Blassingame, “The Slave Family,” in Blassingame, The Slave Community Blues lyrics | |
| Hazel Carby, “The Souls of Black Men,” in Carby, Race Men | |
| Jim Cullen, “’I’s a Man Now’: Gender and African-American Men,” in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds., Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War | |
| Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom | |
| W.E.B. DuBois, "Of the Training of Black Men," in DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk | |
| Frantz Fanon, "The Fact of Blackness," in Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks | |
| John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, “Profile of a Runaway,” in Franklin and Schweninger, Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation | |
| Martha Hodes, “Murder,” in Hodes, White Women, Black Men: Illicit Sex in the Nineteenth-Century South | |
| James Horton, “Freedom’s Yoke: Gender Conventions Among Antebellum Free Blacks,” Feminist Studies 12 (1986): 51-76 (OL) | |
| Larry E. Hudson, Jr., ed., Working Toward Freedom: Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South | |
| Robin D.G. Kelley, "Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved My Head," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Lawrence W. Levine, Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom, pt. 6 | |
| Norman Mailer, “The White Negro," in Mailer, Advertisements For Myself | |
| Stephanie McCurry, “The Two Faces of Republicanism: Gender and Proslavery Politics,” Journal of American History 78 (1992): 1245-1264 (OL) | |
| James Mellon, Bullwhip Days: The Slaves Remember | |
| Kobena Mercer, “Reading Racial Fetishism: The Photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe,” in Mercer, Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin | |
| William L. VanDeburg, “Cyril Briggs and the African Blood Brotherhood,” in VanDeburg, Modern Black Nationalism from Marcus Garvey to Louis Farrakhan | |
| Michele Wallace, “Masculinity in Black Popular Culture,” in Maurice Berger et al., eds., Constructing Masculinity | |
| Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery | |
| Shane White, “The Death of James Johnson," American Quarterly 51 (1999): 753-795 (OL) | |
| Marcus Wood, Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865 | |
| Bertram Wyatt-Brown, “The Mask of Obedience: Male Slave Psychology in the Old South,” American Historical Review 93 (1988): 1228-1252 (OL) | |
| Week 6 | NO MEETING (Reading Week) |
| Week 7 | Arms and the man: masculinity and warfare |
| Julie Addelston and Michael Stirratt, "The Last Bastion of Masculinity: Gender Politics at the Citadel," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Beth Bailey and David Farber, "Culture of Heroes," in Bailey and Farber, The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii | |
| Gail Bederman, “Remaking Manhood through Race and ‘Civilization’,” in Bederman, Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 | |
| David W. Blight, “No Desperate Hero: Manhood and Freedom in a Union Soldier’s Experience,” in Catherine Clinton and Nina Silber, eds., Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War | |
| Allan M. Brandt, “’The Cleanest Army in the World’: Venereal Disease and the AEF,” in Brandy, No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 | |
| Joan Cashin, “’Since the War Broke Out’: The Marriage of Kate and William McLure,” in Clinton and Silber, Divided Houses | |
| Frank Costigliola, “’Unceasing Pressure for Penetration’: Gender, Pathology, and Emotion in George Kennan’s Formation of the Cold War,” Journal of American History 83 (1997): 1309-1339 | |
| Cynthia Enloe, “Nationalism and Masculinity,” in Enloe, Bananas, Beaches, and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics | |
| Kristin Hoganson, Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars | |
| Tony Horwitz, "Confederates in the Attic" and "The Civil Wargasm," in Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War | |
| David Kennedy, Over Here: The First World War and American Society | |
| James McPherson, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, chs. 1-2 | |
| Reid Mitchell, "Soldiering, Manhood, and Coming of Age," in Mitchell, The Vacant Chair: The Northern Soldier Leaves Home | |
| Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II | |
| Wallace Terry, Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans | |
| Walt Whitman poems | |
| Bell Irvin Wiley, “Billy Yank and Johnny Reb,” in Wiley, The Life of Billy Yank | |
| Week 8 | Men at work and out of work: masculinity and employment |
| James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men | |
| Ava Baron, “An ‘Other’ Side of Gender Antagonism at Work: Men, Boys, and the Remasculinization of Printers’ Work,” in Baron, Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor | |
| Susan Porter Benson, “The Clerking Sisterhood,” in Benson, Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Managers, and Customers in American Department Stores, 1890-1930 | |
| Mary H. Blewett, “Manhood and the Market,” in Ava Baron, Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor | |
| Patricia Cooper, “The Workday of a Union Man,” in Cooper, Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 | |
| Margaret Creighton, “Sailors, Sweethearts, and Wives: Gender and Sex in the Deep-water Workplace,” in Creighton, Rites and Passages: The Experience of American Whaling, 1830-1870(X) | |
| Leon Fink, “Working-Class Radicalism in the Gilded Age,” in Fink, Workingmen’s Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics | |
| Woody Guthrie lyrics | |
| Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, et al., "From the Cradle to the Grave," in Hall, et al., Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World | |
| Judy Hilkey, “Manhood is Everything,” in Hilkey, Character is Capital: Success Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America | |
| Lewis Hine, America | |
| Dolores Janiewski, “Southern Honor, Southern Dishonor: Managerial Ideology and the Construction of Gender, Class, and Race Relations in Southern Industry,” in Ava Baron, ed., Work Engendered | |
| G.L. Kaster, “Labour’s True Man: Organised Workingmen and the Language of Manliness in the USA, 1827-1877,” Gender and History 13 (2001): 24-64 | |
| Angel Kwollek-Folland, “Gender, Self, and Work in the Life Insurance Industry, 1880-1930,” in Ava Baron, ed., Work Engendered | |
| David Montgomery, “Wage Labor, Bondage, and Citizenship,” in Montgomery, Citizen Worker: The Experience of Workers in the United States | |
| Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation | |
| David Perlmutter, Policing the Media: Street Cops and Public Perceptions of Law Enforcement | |
| Jennifer Pierce, "Rambo Litigators: Emotional Labor in a Male-Dominated Occupation," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Don Snyder, The Cliff Walk (X) | |
| John Taylor, "Charlie Atkins and the Glamour of Investment Banking," and “John Gutfreund and the Cult of Ruthlessness,” in Taylor, Circus of Ambition: The Culture of Wealth and Power in the Eighties (X) | |
| Studs Terkel, Working | |
| Carole Turbin, “Fashioning the American Man: The Arrow Collar Man, 1907-1931,” Gender and History 14 (2002): 470-491 | |
| William H. Whyte, The Organization Man | |
| Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit | |
| Week 9 | Homo ludens: masculinity and leisure |
| Kathleen M. Blee, Women of the Klan, ch. 1 | |
| Lisa Bloom, “Nationalism on Ice: Technology and Masculinity at the North Pole,” in Bloom, Gender on Ice: American Ideologies of Polar Expeditions(X) | |
| Mark Carnes, Secret Ritual and Victorian Manhood, prologue | |
| Elliott J. Gorn, "The Meanings of Prize Fighting," in Gorn, The Manly Art: Bare Knuckle Prize Fighting in America | |
| Kenneth Greenberg, “The Nose, the Lie, and the Duel,” in Greenberg, Honor and Slavery | |
| John Kasson, Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century, pp. 37-54 | |
| John Kasson, “Who is the Perfect Man?: Eugene Sandow and a New Standard for America,” in Kasson, Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge of Modernity in America (X) | |
| Bernard Lefkowitz, Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape Case and the Secret Life of the Perfect American Suburb (X) | |
| Norman Mailer, The Fight | |
| Margaret Marsh, “Suburban Men and Masculine Domesticity, 1870-1915,” in Mark Carnes and Clyde Griffen, eds., Meanings for Manhood | |
| R.D. McBee, “’He Likes Women More Than He Likes Drink, and That is Quite Unusual’: Working-Class Social Clubs, Male Culture, and Heterosocial Relations in the United States, 1920s-1930s,” Gender and History 11 (1999): 84-112 | |
| Michael A. Messner, "Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the Construction of Masculinities," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Jonathan Munby, Public Enemies, Public Heroes: Screening the Gangster | |
| Ted Ownby, Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 (X) | |
| Kathy Peiss, “The Homosocial World of Working-Class Amusements,” in Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (X) | |
| Madelon Powers, Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman’s Saloon, 1870-1920, ch.2 (X) | |
| Steven Riess, Touching Base: Professional Baseball and American Culture in the Progressive Era, ch. 7 | |
| Kim Townsend, “Teaching Men Manhood at Harvard,” in Townsend, Manhood at Harvard | |
| Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "Personal Strategies and Community Life: Hospitality, Gambling, and Combat," in Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South | |
| Week 10 | Queer and now: masculinity and homosexuality |
| Tomas Almaguer, "Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Donald C. Barrett, “Masculinity Among Working-Class Gay Males,” in Peter M. Nardi, ed., Gay Masculinities | |
| Allan Berube, “Marching to a Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War II,” in Martin Bauml Duberman, et al., eds., Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past | |
| Clifford Chase, "Outtakes," in Chase, ed., Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade (X) | |
| George Chauncey, “Introduction,” in Chauncey, Gay New York | |
| John D’Emilio, “Forging a Group Identity,” in D’Emilio, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority | |
| Alexander Doty, “The Gay Straight Man,” in Doty, Making Things Perfectly Queer: Interpreting Mass Culture | |
| Jeffrey Escoffier, American Homo: Community and Perversity, chs. 1-2 | |
| Richard Fung, "Looking For My Penis: The Eroticized Asian in Gay Video Porn," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| William G. Hawkeswood, “’Gay is Lovin’ Men’,” in Hawkeswood, One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem | |
| John Howard, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, introduction and ch. 1 | |
| Jonathan Ned Katz, “No Two Men Were Ever More Intimate,” in Katz, Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality | |
| Martin P. Levine, "The Life and Death of Gay Clones," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Kobena Mercer, “Dark & Lovely: Black Gay Image-Making,” in Mercer, Welcome to The Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies | |
| Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir | |
| Stephen Murray, “The Growth and Diversification of Gay Culture,” in Murray, American Gay | |
| Peter M. Nardi, Growing Up Before Stonewall, pt. 2 | |
| Randy Shilts, “Glory Days,” in Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic | |
| Randy Shilts, “The Years Without Hope,” in Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk | |
| Martha Nell Smith, “Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen,” in Anthony DeCurtis, ed., Present Tense (X) | |
| Siobhan Somerville, “Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body,” in Somerville, Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in America | |
| Angelia Wilson, “Conditional Love,” in Wilson, Below the Belt: Sexuality, Religion, and the American South | |
| Week 11 | What kind of a man are you?: masculinity and subcultures |
| Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast | |
| Harry Brod, "Of Mice and Supermen: Images of Jewish Masculinity," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Rich Cohen, "Nate'n'Al's," in Cohen, Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams (X) | |
| Scott Coltrane, "Stability and Change in Chicano Men's Lives," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Yen Le Espiritu, "All Men Are Not Created Equal: Asian Men in U.S. History," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Marjorie Garber, "The Transvestite Continuum: Liberace--Valentino--Elvis," in Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety | |
| Dick Hebdige, Subculture: The Meaning of Style | |
| Ronald Hutton, "Uncle Sam and the Goddess," in Hutton, The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft | |
| Michael S. Kimmel and Michael Kaufman, “Weekend Warriors: The New Men’s Movement,” in Harry Broad and Michael Kaufman | |
| Jose E. Limon, “Tex-Sex-Mex: American Identities, Lone Stars, and the Politics of Racialized Sexuality,” in Matthew Basso, et al., eds., Across the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West | |
| Annette Lynch, “It Was Style with a Capital’S’: Versions of Being Male Presented at The Beautillion Ball,” in Lynch, Dress, Gender, and Cultural Change: Asian American and African American Rites of Passage | |
| Alfredo Mirande, “Latino Men and Masculinity : An Overview,” in Mirande, Hombres y Machos: Masculinity and Latino Culture | |
| Esther Newton, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America | |
| Michael Schwalbe, "Mythopoetic Men's Work as a Search for Communitas," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds., Men's Lives | |
| Dana Y. Takagi, “Maiden Voyage,” in Russell Leong, ed., Asian-American Sexualities | |
| Tom Wolfe, "The Hair Boys," in Wolfe, The Pump House Gang | |
| Maxine Baca Zinn, "Chicano Men and Masculinity," in Michael Kimmel and Michael A. Messner, eds, Men's Lives | |
| Week 12 | Stiffed? |
| Susan Faludi, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the Modern Man |
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