Duelling, the Russian Cultural Imagination, and Masculinity in Crisis, Digioia Amanda

Автор: Michael Stewart
Название: Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius
ISBN: 9462988234 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789462988231
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Описание: A generation of historians has been captivated by the notorious views on gender found in the mid-sixth century Secret History by the Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea. Yet the notable but subtler ways in which gender coloured Procopius' most significant work, the Wars, have received far less attention. This monograph examines how gender shaped the presentation of not only key personalities such as the seminal power-couples Theodora/ Justinian and Antonina/ Belisarius, but also the Persians, Vandals, Goths, Eastern Romans, and Italo-Romans, in both the Wars and the Secret History. By analysing the purpose and rationale behind Procopius' gendered depictions and ethnicizing worldview, this investigation unpicks his knotty agenda. Despite Procopius's reliance on classical antecedents, the gendered discourse that undergirds both texts under investigation must be understood within the broader context of contemporary political debates at a time when control of Italy and North Africa from Constantinople was contested.

Автор: Rashad Shabazz
Название: Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago
ISBN: 0252039645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780252039645
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Описание: Over 277,000 African Americans migrated to Chicago between 1900 and 1940, an influx unsurpassed in any other northern city. From the start, carceral powers literally and figuratively created a prison-like environment to contain these African Americans within the so-called Black Belt on the city's South Side.

A geographic study of race and gender, Spatializing Blackness casts light upon the ubiquitous--and ordinary--ways carceral power functions in places where African Americans live. Moving from the kitchenette to the prison cell, and mining forgotten facts from sources as diverse as maps and memoirs, Rashad Shabazz explores the myriad architectures of confinement, policing, surveillance, urban planning, and incarceration. In particular, he investigates how the ongoing carceral effort oriented and imbued black male bodies and gender performance from the Progressive Era to the present. The result is an essential interdisciplinary study that highlights the racialization of space, the role of containment in subordinating African Americans, the politics of mobility under conditions of alleged freedom, and the ways black men cope with--and resist--spacial containment.

Автор: Juliette Harrisson
Название: Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination
ISBN: 1474217079 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474217071
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: The history and literature of the Roman Empire is full of reports of dream prophecies, dream ghosts and dream gods. This volume offers a fresh approach to the study of ancient dreams by asking not what the ancients dreamed or how they experienced dreaming, but why the Romans considered dreams to be important and worthy of recording. Dream reports from historical and imaginative literature from the high point of the Roman Empire (the first two centuries AD) are analysed as objects of cultural memory, records of events of cultural significance that contribute to the formation of a group's cultural identity. The book also introduces the term ‘cultural imagination', as a tool for thinking about ancient myth and religion, and avoiding the question of ‘belief', which arises mainly from creed-based religions. The book's conclusion compares dream reports in the Classical world with modern attitudes towards dreams and dreaming, identifying distinctive features of both the world of the Romans and our own culture.

Автор: Ward Keeler
Название: The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma
ISBN: 0824883128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824883126
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Until its recent political thaw, Burma was closed to most foreign researchers, and fieldwork-based research was rare. In The Traffic in Hierarchy, one of the few such works to appear in recent years, author Ward Keeler combines close ethnographic attention to life in a Buddhist monastery with a broad analysis of Burman gender ideology. The result is a thought-provoking analysis of Burmese social relations both within and beyond a monastery’s walls. Keeler shows that the roles individuals choose in Burman society entail inevitable trade-offs in privileges and prestige. A man who becomes a monk gives up some social opportunities but takes on others and gains great respect. Alternatively, a man can become a head of household. Or he can choose to take on a feminine gender identity—to the derision of many but not necessarily his social exclusion. A woman, by contrast, is expected to concern herself with her relations with family and kin. Any interest she might show in becoming a nun arouses ambivalent reactions: although it fulfills Buddhist teachings, it contravenes assumptions about a woman’s proper role. In Burma, hierarchical understandings condition all relationships, but hierarchy implies relations of exchange, not simply inequality, and everyone takes on subordinate roles in their bonds with some, and superordinate ones with others. Knowing where power lies and how to relate to it appropriately is key. It may mean choosing at times to resist power, but more often it involves exercising care as to whom one wishes to subordinate oneself, in what ways, and on what terms.Melding reflections on the work of theorists such as Dumont, Anderson, Warner, and Kapferer with close attention to the details of Burman social interaction, Keeler balances theoretical insights and ethnographic observation to produce a rich and challenging read. The conundrum at the heart of this book—whether to opt for autonomy, the Buddhist seeking of detachment, or for attachment, the desire for close bonds with others—is one that all humans, not just Burmans, must confront, and it is one that admits of no final resolution.

Автор: Kristen Barber
Название: Styling Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Inequality in the Men`s Grooming Industry
ISBN: 081356560X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813565606
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Описание: The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multi-billion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as this innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearance, it still relies on women to do much of the work. Styling Masculinity investigates how men's beauty salons have persuaded their clientele to regard them as masculine spaces. To answer this question, sociologist Kristen Barber goes inside Adonis and The Executive, two upscale men's salons in Southern California. Conducting detailed observations and extensive interviews with both customers and employees, she shows how female salon workers not only perform the physical labor of snipping, tweezing, waxing, and exfoliating, but also perform the emotional labor of pampering their clients and pumping up their masculine egos.  Letting salon employees tell their own stories, Barber not only documents occasions when these workers are objectified and demeaned, but also explores how their jobs allow for creativity and confer a degree of professional dignity. In the process, she traces the vast network of economic and social relations that undergird the burgeoning male beauty industry.  

Автор: Mundy Robert, Denny Harry
Название: Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men`s Identity: Literacies of Masculinity
ISBN: 1032088591 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032088594
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book uses mass media and contemporary cultural topics to examine masculinity at a point of unprecedented change - in which many men are evaluating, some for the first time, their gendered/sexed selves, and how to perform such aspects of identity when past markers of masculinity are challenged.

Автор: Li, Zhuying (ph.d In Communication And Media Studies From Rmit University, Australia.)
Название: Gender hierarchy of masculinity and femininity during the chinese cultural revolution
ISBN: 036762270X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367622701
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Описание: Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation to the historic and cultural context in which they were made.

Автор: Digioia, Amanda
Название: Duelling, the russian cultural imagination, and masculinity in crisis
ISBN: 0367279657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367279653
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Описание: This book, written from a feminist perspective, uses the focus of duelling to discuss the nature of masculinity in Russia. It traces the development of duelling and masculinity historically from the time of Peter the Great onwards, considers how duelling and masculinity have been represented in both literature and film.

Автор: Godfrey E.
Название: Masculinity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature: Duelling with Danger
ISBN: 1349323950 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349323951
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Now in paperback, this book considers crime fighting from the perspective of the civilian city-goer, from the mid-Victorian garotting panics to 1914. It charts the shift from the use of body armour to the adoption of exotic martial arts through the works of popular playwrights and novelists, examining changing ideals of urban, middle-class heroism.

Автор: Helfant Ian M.
Название: That Savage Gaze: Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination
ISBN: 1618118439 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618118431
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Описание: Imperial Russia`s large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies.

Автор: Helfant Ian M.
Название: That Savage Gaze: Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination
ISBN: 1644691345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644691342
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Описание: Imperial Russia`s large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies.

Автор: Li, Zhuying (ph.d In Communication And Media Studies From Rmit University, Australia.)
Название: Gender hierarchy of masculinity and femininity during the chinese cultural revolution
ISBN: 0367617218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367617219
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Описание: Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation to the historic and cultural context in which they were made.