Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys

Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9781443824538
ISBN-13 : 1443824534
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Book Synopsis Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys by : Steven L. Davis

Download or read book Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys written by Steven L. Davis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White, heterosexual, middle-class men have long served as the standard for masculine “beauty,” even if such men have refused to embrace this term. This study seeks to denaturalize this standard by exploring the connections between beauty and the broad spectrum of masculinities. The chapters included in Hunks, Hotties, and Pretty Boys contribute primarily to the field of gender studies, specifically masculinity studies. They consider twentieth-century representations of male beauty through a variety of mediums: performance, literature, art, photography, film and television. Although the contributors hail from both the humanities and the social sciences, all share a concern for how beauty informs, shapes, defines, and re-defines our understanding of masculinity itself. These scholars investigate a range of historical periods and draw from a broad scope of critical approaches. Some interrogate male beauty through the female gaze and look to the influence of female performance on notions of masculine beauty. Others examine how queer and racial constructions of male beauty refuse and offer alternatives to hegemonic models of identity. Another revisits previous philosophical and theoretical conceptions of beauty, only to deconstruct gendered conceptions of the beautiful and the sublime. In all, these essays complicate masculine beauty by examining Chicano, Asian, working class, and female constructions of male beauty in Western culture.


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