A Genealogy of Male Bodybuilding: From Classical to Freaky
ISBN: 9781138187115 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bodybuilding has become an increasingly dominant part of popular gym culture within the last century. Developing muscles is now seen as essential for both general health and high performance sport. At the more extreme end, the monstrous built body has become a pop icon that continues to provoke fascination. This original and engaging study explores the development of male bodybuilding culture from the nineteenth century to the present day, tracing its transformations and offering a new perspective on its current extreme direction. Drawing on archival research, interviews,... Bodybuilding has become an increasingly dominant part of popular gym culture within the last century. Developing muscles is now seen as essential f... |
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761,60 zł |
Manhood on the Line: Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland
ISBN: 9780252081545 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen...
Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles ...
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121,80 zł |
Manhood on the Line: Working-Class Masculinities in the American Heartland
ISBN: 9780252040054 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles of mass production, workers created a white-dominated culture that defended its turf against other racial groups and revived a crude, hypersexualized treatment of women that went far beyond the shop floor. At the same time, they recast unionization battles as manly struggles against a system killing their very selves. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Meyer recreates a social milieu in stunning detail--the mean labor and stolen...
Stephen Meyer charts the complex vagaries of men reinventing manhood in twentieth century America. Their ideas of masculinity destroyed by principles ...
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502,65 zł |
Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali: An Ethnography of Youth, Bodies, and Violence
ISBN: 9781137541451 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the tourist area of South Bali, gangs of male sex workers from the neighboring province of East Java engage in street warfare to control the sex market. Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali introduces the readers to the stories of these young migrants and the world of male sex work in Indonesia, where bodies are manipulated and violence is embodied to produce capital, and where accounts of marginality and the quest for success blur with reflections about failure. Based on participant observation among one youth gang and with a number of former sex workers,...
In the tourist area of South Bali, gangs of male sex workers from the neighboring province of East Java engage in street warfare to control the sex ma...
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194,52 zł |
My Brother Slaves: Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South
ISBN: 9780813166940 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days. In this pioneering study, Sergio A. Lussana offers the first in-depth investigation of the social dynamics between enslaved men and examines how individuals living under the conditions of bondage negotiated masculine identities. He demonstrates that African American men worked to create their own culture through a range of recreational pursuits similar to those enjoyed... Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shar... |
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162,48 zł |
Confucian Image Politics: Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China
ISBN: 9780295998534 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political culture. Confucian Image Politics considers the moral images of officials--as fathers, sons, husbands, and friends--circulated in a variety of media inside and outside the court. It shows how... During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and socia... |
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228,48 zł |
Psychiatria pod krawatem
ISBN: 9788365191175 / Polski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Czy mężczyźni chorują inaczej? Co powoduje, że szybciej umierają? Na czym polega specyfika ich zaburzeń psychicznych? Jakie są typowe reakcje na hasło "choroba mężczyzny"? Na ogół przecież często przytacza się opinię, że mężczyzna nie choruje, ale od razu umiera.
To pytania, na które znajdziemy odpowiedzi dzięki lekturze tej książki. Siedemnaścioro wspaniałych profesjonalistów z właściwą im lekkością pióra opisało w niej różne sfery życia mężczyzn i obserwowane u nich dolegliwości. Czy mężczyźni chorują inaczej? Co powoduje, że szybciej umierają? Na czym polega specyfika ich zaburzeń psychicznych? Jakie są typowe reakcje ...
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94,05 zł |
Russian Masculinities in History and Culture
ISBN: 9781349425921 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the romantic liaisons of Peter the Great to the birth of the Russian 'queen', this collection of essays presents recent research from the new field of Russian masculinity studies. Peasant patriarchs, aristocratic dandies, anxious young bureaucrats, workers in search of father figures, heroic warriors, promiscuous bathhouse attendants and vodka-soaked athletic stars populate this volume. Its essays take as a starting point the notion that masculinity, like femininity, has a history.
From the romantic liaisons of Peter the Great to the birth of the Russian 'queen', this collection of essays presents recent research from the new fie...
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194,52 zł |
Masculinity and Film Performance: Male Angst in Contemporary American Cinema
ISBN: 9781349329083 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing onwell-known male actors in American film and popular culturein the 1990s and 2000s.Peberdyexamines specific social, cultural, historical and political contexts that have affected age, race, sexuality and fatherhood on screen."
A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing onwell-known male actors in American film and popular cu...
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194,52 zł |
Masculinity and Nationhood, 1830-1910: Constructions of Identity and Citizenship in Belgium
ISBN: 9781349483174 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgians were taught how to move and fight, but also how they spoke and sang to express masculinity and patriotism.
A history of what it meant to be a man, and a citizen of an emerging nation throughout the nineteenth century. This book not only relates how Belgians...
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194,52 zł |
The Body and Military Masculinity in Late Qing and Early Republican China: The Art of Governing Soldiers
ISBN: 9781498531689 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1894-1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing government initiated fundamental military reforms and established "New Armies" modeled after the German and Japanese military. Besides reorganizing the structure of the army and improving military training, the goal was to overcome the alleged physical weakness and lack of martial spirit attributed to Chinese soldiers in particular and to Chinese men in general. Intellectuals, government officials, and military circles criticized the pacifist and civil orientation of Chinese...
In 1894-1895, after suffering defeat against Japan in a war primarily fought over the control of Korea, the Qing government initiated fundamental mili...
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561,17 zł |
Engaging Men in the Fight Against Gender Violence: Case Studies from Africa
ISBN: 9781349436897 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide. However, despite the increasing attention which is now paid to this violence by policy makers data seem to indicate that these efforts are not having as great an impact as may have been hoped. In all countries of the world, reports of gender-related violence remain elevated, whilst many incidents of such violence probably remain unreported due to fear of stigma or reprisals for those who are victims. One of the problems in tackling gender-based violence has been that for too long men have been ignored as part of...
Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide. However, despite the increasing attention which is now paid to this vio...
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194,52 zł |
Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature from the Middle Ages to the Present
ISBN: 9781349296439 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been constructed in British literature from the Middle Ages to the present. This book is an important contribution to the emerging field of masculinity studies.
An in-depth analysis into the construction of male identity as well as a unique and comprehensive historical overview of how masculinity has been cons...
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Negotiating Work, Family, and Identity among Long-Haul Christian Truck Drivers: What Would Jesus Haul?
ISBN: 9780739196625 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigate work and family tensions in ways that resonate across categories of race, class, gender and religion. It examines how Christianity and constructions of masculinity are significant in the lives of long-haul drivers and how truckers work to construct narratives of their lives as good, moral individuals in contrast to competing cultural narratives which suggest images of romantic, rule-free, renegade lives on the open road. Based upon...
This book draws upon ethnographic and qualitative research in the United States to demonstrate the means through which long-haul truck drivers navigat...
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384,80 zł |
Performing Masculinity
ISBN: 9781349367597 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - including literature, classical ballet, sports, rock music, films and computer games - from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - includ...
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194,52 zł |
Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828-1865
ISBN: 9781349343041 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage.
Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage.
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194,52 zł |
The Uwi Gender Journey: Recollections and Reflections
ISBN: 9789766405823 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documents the visionary commitment and struggles for recognition and respect of a relatively small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each of them powerful academics and leaders, as they collaborated to institutionalize gender and development studies at the University of West Indies.
Documents the visionary commitment and struggles for recognition and respect of a relatively small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each of them...
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213,27 zł |
Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism
ISBN: 9781349298525 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity, ' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism.
This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity, ' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Heming...
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194,52 zł |
Routledge Revivals: Homosexuality: A Research Guide (1987)
ISBN: 9781138280908 / Angielski / Twarda / 853 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality -- displaying a full spectrum of points of view -- and, given that the major traditions of modern homosexual research began in Europe, is not restricted to works in English.. In general topics that are densely covered in the literature are presented in this guide selectively, with some less studied topics, such as Economics and Music, fleshed out with signposts to more comprehensive research. It seeks to not only mirror existing publications, but also to stimulate new work by... First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality -- displaying a full spectrum of points ... |
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1218,55 zł |
Men in Reserve: British Civilian Masculinites in the Second World War
ISBN: 9781526100696 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore how this group articulated their wartime experiences and how they positioned themselves in relation to the hegemonic discourse of military masculinity. It considers the range of masculine identities circulating amongst civilian male workers during the war and investigates the extent to...
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the ...
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454,28 zł |