Acknowledgments vi Introduction: The Study of Masculinity 1 1 Theorizing Masculinity 17 2 Social Masculinity and Triangulation 55 3 Sexing Masculinity 72 4 Theorizing the Male Body 91 5 Masculinity in Disguise 121 6 Female Masculinities 133 7 Transing Cis Masculinity 142 8 Masculinity and Racialized Subjectivities 161 9 Masculinity and the Nation 188 10 Interracial Masculinities 217 11 Unstable Time: Masculinity in History 233 Index 245
Todd W. Reeser is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, where he also holds a secondary appointment in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program. Much of his work has explored concepts of gender, sexuality, and identity, with a particular focus on the Renaissance and on cinema. His other books include Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture, Setting Plato Straight: Translating Ancient Sexuality in the Renaissance, and Queer Cinema in Contemporary France.