Cool Men and the Second Sex

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-12962-6
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

Reihe: Gender and Culture Series

Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in common? In Cool Men and the Second Sex, Susan Fraiman identifies them all with "cool masculinity" and boldly unpacks the gender politics of their work.

According to Fraiman, "cool men" rebel against a mainstream defined as maternal. Bad boys resist the authority of women and banish mothers to the realm of the uncool. As a result, despite their hipness or because of it these men too often feel free to ignore the insights of feminist thinkers. Through subtle close readings, Fraiman shows that even Gates, champion of black women's writing, and even queer theorists bent on undoing gender binaries, at times end up devaluing women in favor of men and masculinity.

A wide-ranging and fair-minded analysis, Cool Men acknowledges the invaluable contributions of its subjects while also deciphering the gender codes and baring the contradictions implicit in their work. Affirming the legacy of second-wave feminist scholars and drawing as well on the intersectional work of third-wavers, Cool Men helps to reinvent feminist critique for the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fraiman, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Quentin Tarantino: Anatomy of Cool2. Spike Lee and Brian De Palma: Scenarios of Race and Rape3. Edward Said: Gender, Culture, and Imperialism4. Andrew Ross: The Romance of the Bad Boy5. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Figures in Black Masculinity6. Queer Theory and the Second SexPostscript: Doing the Right Thing

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Fraiman is professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development, also published by Columbia.