Gender Threat: American Masculinity in the Face of Change PDF
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GENDER THREAT This page intentionally left blank GENDER THREAT American Masculinity in the Face of Change Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen-C assino STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California © 2022 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid- free, archival- quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Cassino, Dan, 1980- author. | Besen- Cassino, Yasemin, author. Title: Gender threat : American masculinity in the face of change / (cid:2)Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen- Cassino. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. | (cid:2)Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifi ers: LCCN 2021018468 (print) | LCCN 2021018469 (ebook) | (cid:2)ISBN 9781503610361 (cloth) | ISBN 9781503629899 (paperback) | ISBN 9781503629905 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Masculinity— United States. | Men— United States— (cid:2)Identity. | Gender identity— United States. Classifi cation: LCC HQ1090.3 .C385 2021 (print) | LCC HQ1090.3 (ebook) | (cid:2)DDC 305.310973— dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2021018468 LC ebook record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2021018469 Cover design: Michel Vrana Cover photo: iStock Typeset by Newgen North America in 10/14 Mercury Text G1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii 1 Threatened Identity 1 2 Mad Men at Work 17 3 Men and Politics 41 4 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 63 5 God, Guns, and Pornography 83 6 Alternate Masculinities 109 7 The Future of Men 128 Appendix: Methodology Notes 141 Works Cited 173 Index 185 This page intentionally left blank ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We were invited to the University Gothenburg during the summer of 2018. The Gender Diversity Workshop held there in June 2018 was essential for the theoretical conceptualization of our book. We would like to thank Aliya Saperstein, Laurel Westbrook, Katie Bolzendahl, Lena W ängnerud, Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant, Amanda Bittner, and Johanna Rickne. We are also grateful to the teams at Data For Progress, CIDE Mexico, and our colleagues at the FDU/PublicMind Poll for providing essential data. We would like to thank the wonderful team at Stanford University Press, especially our editor Marcela Cristina Maxfi eld. We also thank our series editors Paula England and David Grusky for their insightful com- ments and suggestions. We would like to acknowledge a Career Development Grant from Montclair State University. And we thank our graduate assistant Hean Zeidner Kaspi, who helped us to code blogs and websites for our discus- sion in Chapter 6. This page intentionally left blank GENDER THREAT
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