Author: Tim Bergling
Publisher: Haworth Pre
Keywords: behavior, effeminate, men, gay, sissyphobia
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2001-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1560239905
ISBN-13: 9781560239901

Why are Some Gay Men Effeminate, and Some Not?; Why are effeminate men despised by gay and straight alike?; Sissyphobia is the first book of its kind - a revealing look into male effeminacy that explores why some gay men are swishy, why other gay men are more masculine, and why effeminate men provoke anger, disgust, and disdain in both gay and straight men. Sissyphobia explores those negative feelings that are aimed at people termed fairies, faggots, flamers and queens; men who, as author Tim Bergling puts it ’run more toward what we could term the Quentin Crisp school of homosexuality&#

Author: ROBYN R. WARHOL
Publisher: Ohio State University Pre
Keywords: theory, interpretation, narrativ, forms, culture, effeminate, feelings, pop, having
Number of Pages: 148
Published: 2003-01-15
List price: $62.95
ISBN-10: 0814209289
ISBN-13: 9780814209288

Author: Matthew Biberma
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: modern, women, jew, gender, world, effeminate, literature, anti, semitism, english, masculinity, satanic
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2004-12-31
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754650456
ISBN-13: 9780754650454

Offering a profound re-assessment of the conceptual, rhetorical, and cultural intersections among sexuality, race and religion in English Renaissance texts, this study argues that anti-Semitism is a by-product of tensions between received Classical conceptions of masculinity and Christianity’s strident critique of that ideal. Utilizing works by Shakespeare, Milton, Marlowe and others, Biberman illustrates how modern anti-Semitism develops as a way to stigmatize hypermasculine behavior, thus facilitating the transformation of the culture’s gender ideal from knight to businessman. Su

Author: Mrinalini Sinha
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: nineteenth, century, studies, imperialism, bengali, effeminate, masculinity, manly, englishman, colonial
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1995-10-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 071904653X
ISBN-13: 9780719046537

Colonial masculinity places masculinity at the centre of colonial and nationalist politics in the late 19th century in India. Mrinalini Sinha situates the analysis very specifically in the context of an imperial social formation, examining colonial masculinity not only in the context of social forces within India, but also as framed by and framing political, economic, and ideological shifts in Britain.