Masculinity Books

New and Published Books

1. Chinese Male Homosexualities

   Memba, Tongzhi and Golden Boy

   By Travis S. K. Kong

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men. It provides a sociological account of masculinity, desire, sexuality, identity and citizenship in contemporary Chinese societies, and within the constellation of global culture. Kong...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
2. Sport, Masculinities and the Body

   By Ian Wellard

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or...

   Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Ultimate Fighting and Embodiment

   Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts

   By Dale C. Spencer

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents. This book explores the carnal experience of fighting through a sensory ethnography of MMA, and how it...

   Published November 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Men, Law and Gender

   Essays on the ‘Man’ of Law

   By Richard Collier

   What does it mean to speak of ‘men’ as a gender category in relation to law? How does law relate to masculinities? This book presents the first comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the relationship between men, law and gender; outlining the contours of the ‘man’ of law across diverse...

   Published July 29th 2011 by Routledge-Cavendish
5. Inclusive Masculinity

   The Changing Nature of Masculinities

   By Eric Anderson

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   Drawing on qualitative studies of teamsport athletes and fraternity members, this book describes the rapidly changing world of masculinities among men in both the United States and Great Britain. As cultural homophobia decreases, university-aged men are influenced to construct a softer version of...

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Social Theory in Contemporary Asia

   By Ann Brooks

   Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

   Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
7. The Achilles Heel Reader (Routledge Revivals)

   Men, Sexual Politics and Socialism

   Edited by Victor Seidler

   First published in 1991, The Achilles Heel Reader brings together key articles from Achilles Heel, the path-breaking and influential magazine of men's sexual politics. It also includes an important introduction by the editor, setting the magazine in its intellectual and historical context. Achilles...

   Published January 6th 2011 by Routledge
8. Violence, Prejudice and Sexuality

   By Stephen Tomsen

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   The binary model of sexuality can be devastating and even fatal for people left outside the category of heterosexuality. Essentialist categories of sexuality and gender are often enforced by harassment and violence, as is clear in the case of violence directed against sexual minorities such as...

   Published September 29th 2010 by Routledge
9. Black Masculinity and Sexual Politics

   By Anthony J. Lemelle, Jr.

   Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

   African American males occupy a historically unique social position, whether in school life, on the job, or within the context of dating, marriage and family. Often, their normal role expectations require that they perform feminized and hypermasculine roles simultaneously. This book focuses on...

   Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
10. Migrant Men

    Critical Studies of Masculinities and the Migration Experience

    Edited by Mike Donaldson, Raymond Hibbins, Richard Howson, Bob Pease

    Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

    This edited volume contributes an important collection of chapters to the growing theoretical and empirical work being undertaken at the international level on men and migration. The chapters presented here focus on what we might call ‘migratory masculinities': the experiences men have of...

    Published June 25th 2009 by Routledge