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From the Beat poets' incarnation of the "white Negro" through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David Savran explores the social and sexual tensions that have helped to produce this phenomenon. Beginning with the 1940's, when many white, middle-class men moved into a rule-bound, corporate culture, Savran sifts through literary, cinematic, and journalistic examples that construct the white man as victimized, feminized, internally divided, and self-destructive. Savran considers how this widely perceived loss of male power has played itself out on both psychoanalytical and political levels as he draws upon various concepts of masochism--the most counterintuitive of the so-called perversions and the one most insistently associated with femininity. Savran begins with the writings and self-mythologization of Beat writers William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac. Although their independent, law-defying lifestyles seemed distinctively and ruggedly masculine, their literary art and personal relations with other men in fact allowed them to take up social and psychic positions associated with women and racial minorities. Arguing that this dissident masculinity has become increasingly central to U.S. culture, Savran analyzes the success of Sam Shepard as both writer and star, as well as the emergence of a new kind of action hero in movies like Rambo and Twister. He contends that with the limited success of the civil rights and women's movements, white masculinity has been reconfigured to reflect the fantasy that the white male has become the victim of the scant progress made by African Americans and women. Taking It Like a Man provocatively applies psychoanalysis to history. The willingness to inflict pain upon the self, for example, serves as a measure of men's attempts to take control of their situations and their ambiguous relationship to women. Discussing S/M and sexual liberation in their historical contexts enables Savran to consider not only the psychological function of masochism but also the broader issues of political and social power as experienced by both men and women.

Hommes dans la culture populaire --- Hommes dans la littérature --- Mannen in de literatuur --- Mannen in de volkscultuur --- Men in literature --- Men in popular culture --- Psychological study of literature --- Sociology of culture --- United States --- Reverse discrimination --- Masochism --- Men in literature. --- Masculinity --- Men, White --- Discrimination --- Psychic masochism --- Paraphilias --- Personality disorders --- Sadomasochism --- Suffering --- Popular culture --- White men --- United States of America

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A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform (www. oapen. org).Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything from a simple plot device to a commentary on the foundations of Victorian society. But while madness in Victorian fiction has been much studied, most scholarship has focused on the portrayal of madness in women; male mental disorder in the period has suffered comparative neglect. Valerie Pedlar corrects this imbalance in The 'Most Dreadful Visitation.' This extraordinary study explores a wide range of Victorian writings to consider the relationship between the portrayal of mental illness in literary works and the portrayal of similar disorders in the writings of doctors and psychologists. Pedlar presents in-depth studies of Dickens's Barnaby Rudge, Tennyson's Maud, Wilkie Collins's Basil, and Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, considering each work in the context of Victorian understandings-and fears-of mental degeneracy.

-Psychiatry and Psychology --- Medicine in Literature --- English fiction --- Mental illness in literature. --- Men in literature. --- Men --- History and criticism. --- Mental health. --- Insanity in literature --- Psychopathology in literature --- victoriaans --- male --- madness --- mannen --- victorian --- gekte --- Charles Dickens --- Dracula --- Insanity --- Masculinity --- Renfield

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This book challenges standard accounts of early Christian exegesis of the Bible. Professor Young sets the interpretation of the Bible in the context of the Graeco-Roman world - the dissemination of books and learning, the way texts were received and read, the function of literature in shaping not only a culture but a moral universe. For the earliest Christians, the adoption of the Jewish scriptures constituted a supersessionary claim in relation to Hellenism as well as Judaism. Yet the debt owed to the practice of exegesis in the grammatical and rhetorical schools is of overriding significance. Methods were philological and deductive, and the usual analysis according to 'literal', 'typological' and 'allegorical' is inadequate to describe questions of reference and issues of religious language. The biblical texts shaped a 'totalizing discourse' which by the fifth century was giving identity, morality and meaning to a new Christian culture.

22.06 --- 267.1 --- Christianity and culture --- Civilization, Christian --- Contextualization (Christian theology) --- Culture and Christianity --- Inculturation (Christian theology) --- Indigenization (Christian theology) --- 267.1 Religieuze verenigingen voor mannen en vrouwen--(alfabetisch) --- Religieuze verenigingen voor mannen en vrouwen--(alfabetisch) --- Bijbel: exegese; hermeneutiek --- Christian literature, Early --- Christian civilization --- Christianity and culture. --- Littérature chrétienne primitive --- Civilisation chrétienne --- Christianisme et culture --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Bible --- Hermeneutics. --- Culture --- Christianity --- Civilization --- Biblia --- Civilization, Christian. --- Christian civilization. --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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Fatherhood is on the political agenda in many countries, often cast in terms of crisis. One side of the policy debate focuses on fathers as deadbeat dads who do not provide financial support and care for their children. The other revolves around making men into active and engaged fathers. However, these policies are often at odds with the employers' reluctance to accommodate work schedules to fathers' needs. In Making Men into Fathers, prominent scholars in gender studies and the critical studies of men consider how varied institutional settings and policy logics around cash and care contour the possibilities and constraints for new models of fatherhood, determining the choices open to men. From different historical and societal perspectives, the authors provide insights into the studies of men as gendered subjects, including the role of transnational and global issues of fatherhood, and the emergence of men's movements, contesting and reimaging fatherhood.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Fatherhood. --- Fathers --- Men --- Masculinity. --- Men's movement. --- Paternité --- Pères --- Hommes --- Masculinité --- Mouvement masculiniste --- Government policy. --- Politique gouvernementale --- 316.346.2-055.1 --- Fatherhood --- -Men --- -Masculinity --- Men's movement --- #SBIB:316.346H30 --- #SBIB:316.356.2H5530 --- Men's liberation movement --- Men's rights movement --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Dads --- Human males --- 316.346.2-055.1 Demografische stratificatie naar geslacht: mannen --- Demografische stratificatie naar geslacht: mannen --- Government policy --- Gender studies: mannenproblematiek: algemeen --- Gezinsbeleid: maatregelen: kinderbijslag, gezinshulp, kinderopvang e.a. --- Masculinity --- Social movements --- Sex (Psychology) --- Parenthood --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Parents --- Househusbands --- Gezinsbeleid: maatregelen: kinderbijslag, gezinshulp, kinderopvang e.a --- Social Sciences --- Sociology --- Fathers - Government policy --- Men - Government policy

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African American men in literature --- Afro-Amerikaanse mannen in de literatuur --- Hommes afro-americains dans la littérature --- Hommes dans la littérature --- Mannelijkheid in de literatuur --- Mannen in de literatuur --- Masculinity in literature --- Masculinité dans la littérature --- Men in literature --- Race dans la littérature --- Race in literature --- Ras in de literatuur --- African Americans --- American fiction --- Modernism (Literature) --- Masculinity (Psychology) in literature --- American literature --- Afro-American men in literature --- Intellectual life --- African American authors&delete& --- History and criticism --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Toomer, Jean, --- Characters --- Men. --- African American authors --- 20th century --- Men --- United States --- Toomer, Jean --- Morrison, Toni --- Naylor, Gloria --- Wideman, John Edgar --- African American men in literature. --- Masculinity in literature. --- Race in literature. --- Men in literature. --- History and criticism.