Manly Drunkenness: Binge Drinking as Disciplined Play

Bloom, Gina

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“…Similarly, studies such as Masculinity and the Metropolis of Vice , edited by Amanda Bailey and Roze Hentschell, demonstrate the range of masculine ideals operating in the urban space of London, indicating how not only age and class but also social location influence ideas of masculinity. For example, Gina Bloom's essay in this collection shows how binge drinking provides an alternative discourse of masculine fortitude for those excluded by age or rank from patriarchal forms of masculinity. Similarly, Jennifer Panek's study of male prostitutes demonstrates how a discourse of masculine sexual inexhaustibility competed with aristocratic ideas of male temperance and sexual self‐control as forms of masculine fortitude.…”

Section: Masculinity At the Margins: Masculinity Studies Todaymentioning

confidence: 99%

Shakespeare and Masculinity

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2015

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The peculiar challenge posed by studying Shakespearean masculinity is its resistance to inquiry. Patriarchal ideologies function precisely by taking a specific form of male power, the power of the father, as neutral, given and, therefore, not an available object of study. Scholars have faced this challenge by examining masculinity at those very moments when it falters and fractures. The study of Shakespeare's male characters has an extensive history, and for much of that history, these characters were interesting and significant because they told us something about mankind, about human beings in general. Examining masculinity rather than men, scholars rethought the study of maleness as a feminist project and made a fertile space for historical study that draws out the contours of manliness in all its historical specificities. Such study lays the groundwork for new analyses that interrogate the association between masculine attributes and culturally valued forms of self. These analyses do more than simply question the dominance of men but propose alternative ideas of the masculine and alternative forms of human flourishing.

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Section: Masculinity At the Margins: Masculinity Studies Todaymentioning

confidence: 99%