1st Edition

Constructing Masculinity

Edited By Maurice Berger, Brian Wallis, Simon Watson Copyright 1995
    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    350 Pages
    by Routledge

    This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.

    Introduction, What is Masculinity? Masculinity and Representation, How Science Defines Men, How Science Defines Men, Masculinity and the Rule of Law, Male Subjectivity and Responsibility.

    Biography

    Maurice Berger is Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School for Social Research in New York. Simon Watson is the founding director of The Contemporary Art Institute of New York, sponsor of the annual SoHo Arts Festival. Brian Wallis is a cultural critic, living in New York. He has written extensively on contemporary art, and is the editor of numerous books, including Art After Modernism (1984), and Rock My Religion: Writing and Art Projects by Dan Graham (1994).