The gender of desire : essays on male sexuality /

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 fanta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kimmel, Michael S
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2005], ©2005
Albany : c2005
Albany : ©2005
Albany : [2005]
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Gendering desire
  • 2. Masculinity as homophobia : fear, shame, and silence in the construction of gender identity
  • 3. The gender of desire : the sexual fantasies of women and men / Michael S. Kimmel and Rebecca F. Plante
  • 4. Pornography and male sexuality
  • 5. Sexual violence in three pornographic media : toward a sociological explanation / Michael S. Kimmel and Martin Barron
  • 6. Does censorship make a difference? : an aggregate empirical analysis of pornography and rape / Michael S. Kimmel and Annulla Linders
  • 7. Sexual Balkanization : gender and sexuality as the new ethnicities
  • 8. Hard issues and soft spots : counseling men about sexuality / Michael S. Kimmel and Jeffrey C. Fracher
  • 9. Bisexuality : a sociological perspective / Michael S. Kimmel, John H. Gagnon and Cathy Stein Greenblat
  • 10. The kindest un-cut : feminism, Judaism, and my son's foreskin
  • 11. "What's love got to do with it?" : rape, domestic violence, and the making of men
  • 12. Gender symmetry in domestic violence : a substantive and methodological research review
  • 13. The unnatural history of rape
  • 14. Reducing men's violence : the personal meets the political.
  • Gendering desire
  • Masculinity as homophobia : fear, shame, and silence in the construction of gender identity
  • The gender of desire : the sexual fantasies of women and men / with Rebecca F. Plante
  • Pornography and male sexuality
  • Sexual violence in three pornographic media : toward a sociological explanation / with Martin Barron
  • Does censorship make a difference? : an aggregate empirical analysis of pornography and rape / with Annulla Linders
  • Sexual Balkanization : gender and sexuality as the new ethnicities
  • Hard issues and soft spots : counseling men about sexuality / with Jeffrey C. Fracher
  • Bisexuality : a sociological perspective / with John H. Gagnon and Cathy Stein Greenblat
  • The kindest un-cut : feminism, judaism, and my son's foreskin
  • "What's love got to do with it?" : rape, domestic violence, and the making of men
  • Gender symmetry in domestic violence : a substantive and methodological research review
  • The unnatural history of rape
  • Reducing men's violence : the personal meets the political