1st Edition

Producing Masculinity The Internet, Gender, and Sexuality

By Michele White Copyright 2019
244 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Thoughtful, witty, and illuminating, in this book Michele White explores the ways normative masculinity is associated with computers and the Internet and is a commonly enacted online gender practice. Through close readings and a series of case studies that range from wedding forums to men’s makeup video tutorials, White considers the ways masculinities are structured through people’s... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Producing Masculinity by Using Women and Femininity

Chapter 1: "But I’m a Nice Guy": A Voice for Men, Anti-feminist Men’s Rights, and the Straw Feminist

Chapter 2: "Penis, penis, who’s got" the Pants: Levi’s® Ex-Girlfriend Jeans and the Ex-girlfriend

Chapter 3: "You never want to ever looked caked in makeup": Men’s Natural Look Makeup Video Tutorials

Chapter 4: "It’s boner bashing time": Leandra Medine’s Man Repeller Blog

Chapter 5: "Not a newbridetobe": Wedding Masculinity and Forums for Grooms

Afterword: Turning Masculinity Around: Breasted Masculinity, Wedding Suits, and Altered Terms

Selected Bibliography

Index

Biography

Michele White is a Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University. Her field is media and visual culture studies, with a focus on the forms of cultural production that are associated with the Internet and computer. She is the author of Producing Women: The Internet, Traditional Femininity, Queerness, and Creativity (2015), Buy It Now: Lessons from eBay (2012), and The Body and the Screen: Theories of Internet Spectatorship (2006).