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The Gay Archipelagois the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism and globalization. Yet the case of gay and lesbian Indonesians also compels us to ask more fundamental questions about how we decide when two things are \"the same\" or \"different.\" The book thus examines the possibilities of an \"archipelagic\" perspective on sameness and difference. Tom Boellstorff examines the history of homosexuality in Indonesia, and then turns to how gay and lesbian identities are lived in everyday Indonesian life, from questions of love, desire, and romance to the places where gay men and lesbian women meet. He also explores the roles of mass media, the state, and marriage in gay and lesbian identities. The Gay Archipelagois unusual in taking the whole nation-state of Indonesia as its subject, rather than the ethnic groups usually studied by anthropologists. It is by looking at the nation in cultural terms, not just political terms, that identities like those of gay and lesbian Indonesians become visible and understandable. In doing so, this book addresses questions of sexuality, mass media, nationalism, and modernity with implications throughout Southeast Asia and beyond.

\"It's no secret that men often behave in confusing ways, but in recent years we've witnessed so many spectacular public displays of male excess-disgraced politicians, erotically desperate professors, fallen sports icons-that we're left to wonder whether something has come unwired in the collective male psyche. In the essays collected here, Laura Kipnis draws out the angst and emotional contradictions implicit in what look like exercises of male privilege, revisiting the archetypes of wayward masculinity that have captured her imagination over the years, and scrutinizing men who have figured in her own life, alongside more controversial public examples. Slicing through the usual clichés about the differences between the sexes, Kipnis mixes intellectual rigor and wit to give us a compelling survey of the affinities, jealousies, longings, and erotics that structure the male-female bond\"--Page 4 of cover.

Misframing Men, a collection of Michael Kimmel's commentaries on contemporary debates about masculinity, argues that the media have largely misframed this debate.Kimmel, among the world's best-known scholars in gender studies, discusses political moments, takes on antifeminists as the real male bashers, questions the unsubstantiated assertions that men suffer from domestic violence to the same degree as women, and examines the claims made by those who want to rescue boys from the \"misandrous\" reforms initiated by feminism. In writings both solidly grounded and forcefully argued, he pushes the boundaries of today's modern conversation about men and masculinity.

An avalanche of recent newspapers, weekly newsmagazines, scholarly journals, and academic books has helped to spark a heated debate by publishing warnings of a \"boy crisis\" in which male students at all academic levels have begun falling behind their female peers. InLearning the Hard Way, Edward W. Morris explores and analyzes detailed ethnographic data on this purported gender gap between boys and girls in educational achievement at two low-income high schools-one rural and predominantly white, the other urban and mostly African American. Crucial questions arose from his study of gender at these two schools. Why did boys tend to show less interest in and more defiance toward school? Why did girls significantly outperform boys at both schools? Why did people at the schools still describe boys as especially \"smart\"? Morris examines these questions and, in the process, illuminates connections of gender to race, class, and place. This book is not simply about the educational troubles of boys, but the troubled and complex experience of gender in school. It reveals how particular race, class, and geographical experiences shape masculinity and femininity in ways that affect academic performance. His findings add a new perspective to the \"gender gap\" in achievement.

In Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China, Geng Song and Derek Hird offer an account of Chinese masculinities in media discourse and everyday life, covering masculinities on television, in lifestyle magazines, in cyberspace, at work, at leisure, and at home.

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 reports the results of an extensive ethnographic study of contemporary Chinese gay men in a wide range of different locations including mainland China, Hong Kong and the Chinese overseas community in London, showing how Chinese gay men live their everyday lives. Relating Chinese male homosexuality to the extensive social and cultural theories on gender, sexuality and the body, postcolonialism and globalisation, the book examines the idea of queer space and numerous 'queer flows' – of capital, bodies, ideas, images, and commodities – around the world. The book concludes that different gay male identities – such as the conspicuously consuming memba in Hong Kong, the urban tongzhi , the 'money boy' in China and the feminised 'golden boy' in London – emerge in different locations, and are all caught up in the transnational flow of queer cultures which are at once local and global. \"Chinese Male Homosexualities is an original study of what happens when the translation of global gayness 'fails'. What we get are politically astute insights developed in dialogue between Kong and the Chinese gay men he came to know ... in Hong Kong, London and mainland China. Resolutely anti-essentialist about both gay identity and Chinese culture, Kong convincingly argues that contradictions lie at the heart of queer struggles for rights, community and intimacy ... A must read.\" – Professor Lisa Rofel, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA \"There is no book out there like this one. Navigating between European ideals of liberal recognition and Confucian notions of filial obligation, between neoliberal markets and residues of (post)colonial regulation, between cosmopolitan consumerism and alternative socialist imaginaries, Kong’s ethnography of Chinese gay men in Hong Kong, London, and the PRC is exhilarating and inimitable.\" – Professor David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania, USA \"Chinese Male Homosexualities is that rare and joyous thing: an intellectually substantial book that is also a good read. Individual interviewees’ stories bring the intellectual arguments to life.\" – Professor Chris Berry, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK \"This is a stunning empirical study of sexual worlds that are rarely associated with China, and a highly creative synthesis of the sociology of sexuality and queer theory. A powerful book that will be of interest to China scholars as well as sexuality researchers.\" – Arlene Stein, Rutgers University, USA \"This book charts new territory in Chinese studies in the scope of its multi-site approach to the study of Chinese homosexualities, and is written with a lightness of hand that balances a comples analytical framework with lively interview data. Its readability ensures its easy application in undergraduate teaching, and its sophisticated interweaving of empirical data and theoretical analysis is a 'textbook' example for researchers. It makes significant contributions to the sociology of homosexuality, 'new queer Asia studies' and, more widely, non-Western, non-normative gender and sexuality studies, as well as debates on globalization and sexual citizenship.\" - Derek Hird, The China Quarterly, Volume 205 - March 2011 \"This is a fascinating book on the subject of Chinese male homosexuality, including not only the life stories of Chinese homosexual men in Hong Kong but also those in London and the Chinese mainland... Kong has woven together different strands of sexuality studies to date in making sense of a postmodern movement of gays and lesbians in Hong Kong and beyond, ranging from those labeled as 'good consumer citizens', to subversive art and media adventurists, to those who take to the street for public contestation of sexual rights. The rich literature alluded to and the careful documentation provide readers with an excellent guide for their understanding and ongoing study of Chinese male homosexuality for the future.\" - Angela Wong Wai Ching, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Asian Anthropology, Volume 10 (2011) Introduction: Bodies that Travel 1. Study of Chinese Male Homosexualities and Citizenship Part I: Hong Kong 2. Queers are ready!? Sexual Citizenship and Tongzhi Movement 3. Memba Only: Consumer Citizenship and Cult Gay Masculinity 4. All about Family: Intimate Citizenship and Family Biopolitics Part II: London 5. Queer Disapora: Hong Kong Migrant Gay Men in London Part III: China 6. New New China, New New Tongzhi 7. Sex and Work in a Queer Time and Place Conclusion: Transnational Chinese Male Homosexualities