Behold the man : the hype and selling of male beauty in media and culture

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    • Dotson, Edisol Wayne

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Behold the man : the hype and selling of male beauty in media and culture

Edisol Wayne Dotson

（Haworth gay & lesbian studies）

Harrington Park Press, c1999

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

The first comprehensive study of how images of male beauty are projected onto society, Behold the Man: The Hype and Selling of Male Beauty in Media and Culture examines the role media and society play in creating the image of the idealized male. This book explores how these images are interpreted by all genders and sexual orientations in order to investigate the phenomenon's effect on the self-esteem of adolescent and adult males. Behold the Man provides you with research and examples that identify this problem from many angles to help you realize that being a man is more than merely possessing muscles and good looks.Discussing examples in which both attractive men and women are idealized as "the norm," Behold the Man argues that men are experiencing the same injustices as women--splashed on the covers of magazines and in advertisements, based on their sex appeal, sometimes to promote nothing more than their looks. Within Behold the Man, you'll find topics that relate to the reasons for and effects of male beauty standards, such as: aspects of male beauty, from Ancient Greek ideals to how it is visualized throughout history in art the vision of "the ideal male," along with sexual connotations, in advertisements for clothing, cologne, sunglasses, automobiles, and shaving products the emphasis of strong, well-built males and their bodies in movies, music videos, and literature how men alter their bodies by dieting and cosmetic surgery to achieve the look found in advertisements today's growing numbers of male eating disorders caused by the notion that only good-looking, muscular men are acceptable reasons behind the exploitation of the male body and the double standards for male beauty found within gay male communities how advertisers and authors faithfully follow the "bigger is better" theory--from pectoral and bicep muscles to penis sizeRecognizing how society has created and changed the appearance of the ideal male, this text explains to you the danger men of all ages face who feel they need to be physically handsome to be desirable. From Behold the Man, you'll learn about the real messages of advertising and media, the problems they cause, and that true self-worth cannot be measured by physical attributes.

目次

Contents Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Where We Are The New Man Emerges Chapter 2. Fine Lines: Painting, Sculpture, and Photography The Early Aesthetes The Renaissance of Man Modern Heroes Art As Sex Picture This In Defense of Stereotypes Chapter 3. A Real Head Turner: Fiction Myths and Legends Romancing the Body Best-Selling Bodies Pink Pages Bedtime Bodies Chapter 4. Buy Me: Advertising The Smell of It Briefing the Stereotype Gorilla Suits The Apparel Oft Proclaims the Man Accessories and Then Some Make the Man If It Says So in a Magazine, It Must Be True Here's the Beef Chapter 5. Me Tarzan, You Wimp: Films Good Bodies Bad Bodies Soft Bodies, Aging Sex Symbols, and Rubber Suits Chapter 6. Body Guide: Television Prime-Time Beef Daytime Hunks Singing the Body Fantastic Chapter 7. Bigger Is Better: Pornography and Erotica The Male Centerfold Chapter 8. Skin and Bones: Dieting and Eating Disorders Chapter 9. The Unkindest Cut of All: Cosmetic Surgery Popular Procedures What Price Beauty? Chapter 10. The Fitness Fallacy: Muscles Sex and Salvation Muscles Equal Survival Muscle Medicine Chapter 11. Is He Cute?: Gay Male Culture The Real Men of Gay Sex Going for the Gay Dollar The Gay Media Chapter 12. Where Do We Go from Here? Notes Index

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