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The psychology of men and masculinities
\"Decades ago, the emergence of feminist psychology upended the old order by redefining sex and gender. Soon thereafter, scholars such as Ron Levant recognized the importance of doing a similar critical analysis of men. Now, years later, the psychology of men and masculinities is a thriving, growing field illuminating the impact of sex and gender on the lives of men.
This highly anticipated volume shows how far the field has advanced and what directions it is taking. It explains and evaluates major theories, research, and applications, with an emphasis on the gender role strain paradigm, which is an empirical, feminist, and social constructionist approach that is based primarily in psychology and that relies largely on quantitative research. The chapters also synthesize research on men's mental and physical health, including depression, help-seeking, stigma, body image, and the physical health effects of masculinity. Special attention is given to ethnic, racial, and sexual minority men. Finally, the book surveys the growing body of work on therapeutic and preventive interventions for men, as well as programs aimed at men's violence, substance use, and lack of self-care. With such broad and inclusive coverage, this volume will be a standard reference for researchers and practitioners in this field and an essential part of university courses on men and masculinities.
\"-- Provided by publisher.
This highly anticipated volume shows how far the field has advanced and what directions it is taking. It explains and evaluates major theories, research, and applications, with an emphasis on the gender role strain paradigm, which is an empirical, feminist, and social constructionist approach that is based primarily in psychology and that relies largely on quantitative research. The chapters also synthesize research on men's mental and physical health, including depression, help-seeking, stigma, body image, and the physical health effects of masculinity. Special attention is given to ethnic, racial, and sexual minority men. Finally, the book surveys the growing body of work on therapeutic and preventive interventions for men, as well as programs aimed at men's violence, substance use, and lack of self-care. With such broad and inclusive coverage, this volume will be a standard reference for researchers and practitioners in this field and an essential part of university courses on men and masculinities.
\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Medieval Sex Lives
Medieval Sex Lives examines
courtly song as a complex cultural product and social force in the
early fourteenth century, exploring how it illuminates the
relationship between artistic production and the everyday lives of
the elites for whom this music and poetry was composed and
performed. In a focused analysis of the Oxford Bodelian
Library's Douce 308 manuscript-a fourteenth-century compilation
that includes over five hundred Old French lyrics composed over two
centuries alongside a narrative account of elaborate courtly
festivities centered on a week-long tournament-Elizabeth Eva Leach
explores two distinct but related lines of inquiry: first, why the
lyric tradition of \"courtly love\" had such a long and successful
history in Western European culture; and, second, why the songs in
the Bodleian manuscript would have been so important to the book's
compilers, owners, and readers.
The manuscript's lack of musical notation and authorial
attributions make it unusual among Old French songbooks; its
arrangement of the lyrics by genre invites inquiry into the
relationship between this long musical tradition and the emotional
and sexual lives of its readers. Combining an original account of
the manuscript's contents and their likely social milieu with
in-depth musical and poetic analyses, Leach proposes that lyrics,
whether read or heard aloud, provided a fertile means of
propagating and enabling various sexual scripts in the Middle Ages.
Drawing on musicology, literary history, and the sociology and
psychology of sexuality, Medieval Sex Lives presents a
provocative hypothesis about the power of courtly songs to model,
inspire, and support sexual behaviors and fantasies.
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Sexploitation : helping kids develop healthy sexuality in a porn-driven world
\"As surprising as it may be to parents, young people today are immersed in porn culture everywhere they look. Through Internet porn, gaming, social media, marketing, and advertising, kids today have a much broader view of social and sexual possibilities, which makes it difficult for them to establish appropriate expectations or to feel adequate in their own sexuality. Even more important, no one is talking to kids directly about the problem. Parents tend to convince themselves that their children are immune to cultural influences, wait until it comes up, or hope schools and pediatricians will address the issues. Educators and doctors may be able to start the conversation but it is fundamentally a parent's job to provide information about sex and relationships early and often to help young people find their way through their social and sexual lives. Delaying the necessary but awkward conversations with their kids leaves them vulnerable. The media, marketers, and porn and gaming industries are eager to step in anywhere parents choose to hold back. Sexploitation exposes the truth to parents, kids, educators, and the medical profession about the seen and unseen influences affecting children, inspiring parents to take the role as the primary sexuality educator. With more information, parents will gain conviction to discuss and develop values, expectations, boundaries, and rules with their kids. Kids who enter their teens with accurate information and truths stand a better chance of developing an \"inner compass\" when it comes to sex and relationships, which sets them up for a healthy adulthood. In her comic and straightforward style, Pierce brings together the latest research with anecdotal stories shared with her by high school and college students in the thick of it. Above all else, her goal is to get people to develop more comfort around those difficult conversations so that kids gain more confidence and courage about drawing boundaries based on their own values not those put upon them\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up
Scholars and social critics are looking at gender and sexuality, as well as masculinity, in new ways and with more attention to the way cultural ideologies affect men’s and women’s lives. With the rise of an online “incel” (involuntarily celibate) community and the perpetration of acts of violence in their name, as well as increased awareness about the complexities of sexual interaction brought to the fore by the #metoo movement, it has become critical to discuss how men’s sexuality and masculinity are related, as well as the way men feel about the messages they get about being a man. Prior research on masculinity and masculine sexuality has examined the experiences of adolescent boys. But what happens to boys as they become men and as many move away from homo-social environments into sexual relationships? What happens when they no longer have a crowd of peers to posture or perform for? How do their sexual experiences and sexual selves change? How do they prove their masculinity in a society that demands it when they are no longer surrounded by peers? And how do they cultivate sexual selves and sexual self-confidence in a culture that expects them to always already be knowledgeable, desiring sexual subjects? In Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up , Beth Montemurro explores the cultivation of heterosexual men’s sexual selves. Based on detailed, in-depth interviews with a large, diverse group of heterosexual men between the ages of 20 and 68, she investigates how getting sex, having sex, and keeping up their sex lives matters to men. Ultimately, Montemurro uncovers the tension between public, cultural narratives about hetero-masculinity and men’s private, sexual selves and their intimate experiences.
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Playing on the Edge
Representations of consensual sadomasochism range from the dark, seedy undergrounds of crime thrillers to the fetishized pornographic images of sitcoms and erotica. In this pathbreaking book, ethnographer Staci Newmahr delves into the social space of a public, pansexual SM community to understand sadomasochism from the inside out. Based on four years of in-depth and immersive participant observation, she juxtaposes her experiences in the field with the life stories of community members, providing a richly detailed portrait of SM as a social space in which experiences of \"violence\" intersect with experiences of the erotic. She shows that SM is a recreational and deeply gendered risk-taking endeavor, through which participants negotiate boundaries between chaos and order. Playing on the Edge challenges our assumptions about sadomasochism, sexuality, eroticism, and emotional experience, exploring what we mean by intimacy, and how, exactly, we achieve it.
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Histories of French Sexuality
Histories of French Sexuality contends that the history of
sexuality is at a crossroads. Decades of scholarship have shown
that sexuality is implicated in a wide range of topics, such as
studies of reproduction, the body, sexual knowledge, gender
identity, marriage, and sexual citizenship. These studies have
broadened historical narratives and interpretations of areas such
as urbanization, the family, work, class, empire, the military and
war, and the nation. Yet while the field has evolved, not everyone
has caught on, especially scholars of French history. Covering the
early eighteenth century through the present, the essays in
Histories of French Sexuality show how attention to the
history of sexuality deepens, changes, challenges, supports, or
otherwise complicates the major narratives of French history. This
volume makes a set of historical arguments about the nature of the
past and a larger historiographical claim about the value and place
of the field of the history of sexuality within the broader
discipline of history. The topics include early empire-building,
religion, the Enlightenment, feminism, socialism, formation of the
modern self, medicine, urbanization, decolonization, the social
world of postwar France, and the rise of modern and social media.
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Unsafe Words
Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been
pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have
been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer
people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer
communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This
provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and
sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power,
consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be
consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist
the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege
underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that
queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical
sex-from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man
having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they
explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to
sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is
frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer
side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge
dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools
and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for
everyone.
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Smitten
In Smitten ,
Rodney Hessinger examines how the Second Great Awakening disrupted
gender norms across a breadth of denominations. The
displacement and internal migration of Americans created ripe
conditions for religious competition in the North. Hessinger argues
that during this time of religious ferment, religious seekers
could, in turn, play the missionary or the convert. The dynamic of
religious rivalry inexorably led toward sexual and gender
disruption. Contending within an increasingly democratic religious
marketplace, preachers had to court converts in order to flourish.
They won followers through charismatic allure and making
concessions to the desires of the people. Opening their own hearts
to new religious impulses, some religious visionaries offered up
radical dispensations-including new visions of how God wanted them
to reorder sex and gender relations in society. A wide array of
churches, including Methodists, Baptists, Mormons, Shakers,
Catholics, and Perfectionists, joined the fray.
Religious contention and innovation ultimately produced
backlash. Charges of seduction and gender trouble ignited fights
within, among, and against churches. Religious opponents insisted
that the newly converted were smitten with preachers, rather than
choosing churches based on reason and scripture. Such criticisms
coalesced into a broader pan-Protestant rejection of religious
enthusiasm. Smitten reveals the sexual disruptions and
subsequent domestication of religion during the Second Great
Awakening.
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The myth of sex addiction
The media today is filled with powerful men in trouble for their sexual behaviors, and invariably, they are diagnosed as sexual addicts. Since Adam first hid his nakedness from God and pointed the finger at Eve, men have struggled to take responsibility for their sexuality. Over the past three decades, these behaviors have come to reflect not a moral failing, but instead, evidence of an ill-defined disease, that of “sexual addiction.” The concept of sexual addiction is a controversial one because it is based on questionable research and subjective moral judgments. Labeling these behaviors as sex addiction asserts a false, dangerous myth that undermines personal responsibility. Not only does this epidemic of sex addiction excuses mislabel male sexuality as dangerous and unhealthy, but it destroys our ability to hold people accountable for their behaviors. By labeling males as weak and powerless before the onslaught and churning tide of lust, we take away those things that men should live up to: personal responsibility; integrity; self-control; independence; accountability; self-motivation; honor; respect for self and others. In The Myth of Sex Addiction, Ley presents the history and questionable science underlying this alleged disorder, exposing the moral and cultural judgments that are embedded in the concept, as well as the significant economic factors that drive the label of sex addiction in clinical practice and the popular media. Ley outlines how this label represents a social attack on many forms of sexuality—male sexuality in particular—as well as presenting the difficulty this label creates in holding people responsible for their sexual behaviors. Going against current assumptions and trends, Ley debunks the idea that sex addiction is real, or at least that it is as widespread as it appears to be. Instead, he suggests that the high-sex behaviors of some men is something that has been tacitly condoned for countless years and is only now labeled as a disorder as men are being held accountable to the same rules that have been applied to women. He suggests we should expect men to take responsibility for sexual choices, rather than supporting an approach that labels male sexual desire as a \"demonic force\" that must be resisted, feared, treated, and exorcised.
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Heinrich Kaan’s “Psychopathia Sexualis\ (1844)
\"With Heinrich Kaan's book we have then what could be called the date of birth, or in any case the date of the emergence, of sexuality and sexual aberrations in the psychiatric field.\"⎯Michel Foucault, Abnormal: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
Heinrich Kaan's fascinating work-part medical treatise, part sexual taxonomy, part activist statement, and part anti-onanist tract-takes us back to the origins of sexology. He links the sexual instinct to the imagination for the first time, creating what Foucault called \"a unified field of sexual abnormality.\" Kaan's taxonomy consists of six sexual aberrations: masturbation, pederasty, lesbian love, necrophilia, bestiality, and the violation of statues. Kaan not only inaugurated the field of sexology, but played a significant role in the regimes of knowledge production and discipline about psychiatric and sexual subjects.
As Benjamin Kahan argues in his Introduction, Kaan's text crucially enables us to see how homosexuality replaced masturbation as the central concern of Euro-American sexual regulation. Kaan's work (translated into English for the first time here) opens a new window onto the history of sexuality and the history of sexology and reconfigures our understanding of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's book of the same name, published some forty years later.
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