The Gender of Desire: Essays on Male Sexuality

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Articles and essays on the construction of male sexuality by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies. Here one of the worlds pioneers in the field of masculinity studies explores the construction of male sexuality pornography and sexual violence. Michael S. Kimmel analyzes what male sexuality is where it comes from how it works what affects it pornographys impact on it what fantasies men have about sex what people think about sex and how male ideas about sex affect what men actually do. Provocative and wide-ranging these essays make important contributions to sociology queer theory American studies history and studies of gender sexuality and gay and lesbian issues.