Cool Men and the Second Sex / / Susan Fraiman.

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&qu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2003]
©2003
Year of Publication:2003
Language:English
Series:Gender and Culture Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE: THE UNCOOL MOTHER
  • 1 QUENTIN TARANTINO: ANATOMY OF COOL
  • 2 SPIKE LEE AND BRIAN DE PALMA: SCENARIOS OF RACE AND RAPE
  • 3 EDWARD SAID: GENDER, CULTURE, AND IMPERIALISM
  • 4 ANDREW ROSS: THE ROMANCE OF THE BAD BOY
  • 5 HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.: FIGURES IN BLACK MASCULINITY
  • 6 QUEER THEORY AND THE SECOND SEX
  • POSTSCRIPT: DOING THE RIGHT THING
  • NOTES
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX