The Gender of Desire: Essays on Male Sexuality
Articles and essays on the construction of male sexuality by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.
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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 wideranging, these essays make important contributions to sociology, queer theory, American studies, history, and studies of gender, sexuality, and gay and lesbian issues.Author Biography: Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He has written and edited many books, including The History of Men: Essays on the History of American and British Masculinities, also published by SUNY Press, and The Gendered Society, Second Edition. He is also the editor of Men and Masculinities, a leading journal in the field.
1Gendering desire32Masculinity as homophobia : fear, shame, and silence in the construction of gender identity253The gender of desire : the sexual fantasies of women and men454Pornography and male sexuality655Sexual violence in three pornographic media : toward a sociological explanation976Does censorship make a difference? : an aggregate empirical analysis of pornography and rape1117Sexual Balkanization : gender and sexuality as the new ethnicities1278Hard issues and soft spots : counseling men about sexuality1399Bisexuality : a sociological perspective14910The kindest un-cut : feminism, Judaism, and my son's foreskin17511"What's love got to do with it?" : rape, domestic violence, and the making of men18712Gender symmetry in domestic violence : a substantive and methodological research review19713The unnatural history of rape21714Reducing men's violence : the personal meets the political227
