Overview

The construction of masculinity is becoming a field of growing interest because it is opening up new and fascinating perspectives, thus adding a further dimension to Gender Studies. However, so far the analysis has focused mostly on homosexuality. By contrast, the author examines social processes and relations that constitute hegemonic masculinity, the central model that attempts to subordinate alternative masculinities, and which is the model of male domination, compulsory monogamy, heterosexuality and reproduction. It is fascinating to follow the author as he gradually unfolds this kind of masculinity in its nearly pure state. Moreover, he involves the reader in his critical reflections on the material and invites him or her to give some thought to such wider questions as whether the hegemonic male is more resistant to change in oral cultures than in urban settings, or up to which point the agents of domination are also its victims. In fact, the author concludes that the hegemonic male is an ideal model practically unattainable by any single man, which exerts over all men a strong controlling power and often forces on them ritualization of everyday behavior that leads to an impoverishment of their lives.

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Author:   Miguel Vale de Almeida
Publisher:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Imprint:   Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Edition:   illustrated edition
Volume:   v. 4
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9781571818881

ISBN 10:   157181888
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   01 July 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Abbreviations, pg. xi*Introduction. Poets and Goatherds, Forests and Consuls: Art, Imagination, and Realism in Ancient Pastoral Poetry, pg. 1*1. Since Daphnis Dies : The Meaning of Theocritus' First Idyll, pg. 25*2. Death by Water: A Narrative Pattern in Theocritus (Idylls 1, 13, 22, 23), pg. 47*3. Adonis and Aphrodite: Theocritus, Idyll 3.48, pg. 66*4. Simaetha and the lynx (Theocritus, Idyll 2), pg. 73*5. Theocritean Criticism and the Interpretation of the Fourth Idyll, pg. 85*6. Theocritus' Seventh Idyll and Lycidas, pg. 110*7. Simichidas' Modesty: Theocritus, Idyll 7.44, pg. 167*8. Thematic Coherence in Theocritus' Bucolic Idylls, pg. 176*9. Landscape into Myth: Theocritus' Bucolic Poetry, pg. 210*10. Virgil's Caelatum Opus: An Interpretation of the Third Eclogue, pg. 235*11. Pastoral Realism and the Golden Age: Correspondence and Contrast between Virgil's Third and Fourth Eclogues, pg. 265*12. Tamen Cantabitis, Arcades: Exile and Arcadia in Eclogues 1 and 9, pg. 271*13. Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Problem of Evil, pg. 301*14. Two Fauns and a Naiad? (Virgil, Eel. 6.13-26), pg. 330*15. Caves, Pan, and Silenus: Virgil's Sixth Eclogue and the Pastoral Epigrams of Theocritus, pg. 336*Index, pg. 341

Reviews

... A stimulating and skillfully crafted book ... An important contribution to gender studies and to the anthropology of Europe. * Choice, Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, 1997. ... a highly successful study which maps masculinity in all its 'constructedness' and fragility ... it is excellent on the present and its immediate historical past. * South European Society & Politics This detailed and meticulously researched book will be valuable to anthropologists, but also toreaders interested in Southern Europe and Gender Studies. * Journal of Area Studies ... an important addition to the literature of gender studies ... well worth reading. * H-Net Reviews (H-SAE)

Author Information

Miguel Vale de Almeida is lecturer of Anthropology at I.S.C.T.E., Lisbon. He is also a political and social activist in Portugal, and a fiction writer.

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