Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys write by Steven L. Davis. This book was released on 2010-08-11. Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. White, heterosexual, middle-class men have long served as the standard for masculine “beauty,” even if such men have refused to embrace this term. This study seeks to denaturalize this standard by exploring the connections between beauty and the broad spectrum of masculinities. The chapters included in Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys contribute primarily to the field of gender studies, specifically masculinity studies. They consider twentieth-century representations of male beauty through a variety of mediums: performance, literature, art, photography, film and television. Although the contributors hail from both the humanities and the social sciences, all share a concern for how beauty informs, shapes, defines, and re-defines our understanding of masculinity itself. These scholars investigate a range of historical periods and draw from a broad scope of critical approaches. Some interrogate male beauty through the female gaze and look to the influence of female performance on notions of masculine beauty. Others examine how queer and racial constructions of male beauty refuse and offer alternatives to hegemonic models of identity. Another revisits previous philosophical and theoretical conceptions of beauty, only to deconstruct gendered conceptions of the beautiful and the sublime. In all, these essays complicate masculine beauty by examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and female constructions of male beauty in Western culture.
Transgressive Bodies
Transgressive Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transgressive Bodies write by Niall Richardson. This book was released on 2016-02-17. Transgressive Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, arguing that popular cultural representations create the transgressive or freak body and then proceed to either contain its threat or (s)exploit it. Through studies of extreme bodybuilding, obesity, disability and transsexed bodies, it examines the implications of such transgressive bodies for gender politics and sexuality. Transgressive Bodies engages with contemporary cultural debates, always relating these to concrete studies of media and cultural representations. This book will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including media and film studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sports studies and cultural theory.
Critical Readings in Bodybuilding
Critical Readings in Bodybuilding - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Readings in Bodybuilding write by Adam Locks. This book was released on 2013-03-01. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship available on contemporary bodybuilding. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding is the first collection to address the contemporary practice of bodybuilding, especially the way in which the activity has become increasingly more extreme and to consider much neglected debates of gender, eroticism, and sexuality related to the activity. Featuring the leading scholars of bodybuilding and the body as well as emerging voices, this volume will be a key addition to the fields of Sociology, Sport Studies, and Cultural Studies.
Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture
Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture write by D. Pérez. This book was released on 2016-02-05. Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a gender, ethnicity, and sexuality lens, Pérez demonstrates that queer Chicana/o and Latina/o identities are much more prevalent in cultural production than most people think. By claiming a variety of characters and texts as queer, he expands the breadth of queer representation in cultural production.
The British National Bibliography
The British National Bibliography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The British National Bibliography write by Arthur James Wells. This book was released on 2009. The British National Bibliography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
