The Masculinity Studies Reader

by Rachel Adams (Editor), David Savran

The Masculinity Studies Reader brings together widely-read and -cited work by key theorists in a new context that is intended simultaneously to establish the contours of and to raise questions about masculinity as a field of academic inquiry.

Genres: Academic, Feminism

432 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 2002

About the author

Rachel Adams is a writer and Professor of English and American Studies at Columbia University. She is the author of numerous academic articles and book reviews, as well as two books: Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination and Continental Divides: Remapping the Cultures of North America (both published by the University of Chicago Press). Her writing has also appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education and the Times of London. Her book, Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery, will be published by Yale University Press in September. She lives in New York City.

Source: About Rachel Adams.

Reviews

[Alieda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very enlightening.

[Victoria · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too many of these essays are superficial, generalizing, and essentialist. I liked a few, but found most unbearably shallow. I hope to find a better text/collection dealing with masculinity studies.