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THE NATURE OF MASCULINITY Sexuality Studies Series This series focuses on original, provocative, scholarly research examining from a range of perspectives the complexity of human sexual practice, identity, community, and desire. Books in the series explore how sexuality interacts with other aspects of society, such as law, education, feminism, racial diversity, the family, policing, sport, government, religion, mass media, medicine, and employment. The series provides a broad public venue for nurturing debate, cultivating talent, and expanding knowledge of human sexual expression, past and present. Recent volumes in the series include: Masculinities without Men? Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions, by Jean Bobby Noble Every Inch a Woman: Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text, by Carellin Brooks The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada, by Christopher Dummitt The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation, by Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900–65, by Cameron Duder Judging Homosexuals: A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France, by Patrice Corriveau Sex Work: Rethinking the Job, Respecting the Workers, by Colette Parent, Chris Bruckert, Patrice Corriveau, Maria Nengeh Mensah, and Louise Toupin Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada, edited by Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love The Man Who Invented Gender: Engaging the Ideas of John Money, by Terry Goldie Religion and Sexuality: Diversity and the Limits of Tolerance, edited by Pamela Dickey Young, Heather Shipley, and Tracy J. Trothen Fraught Intimacies: Non/Monogamy in the Public Sphere, by Nathan Rambukkana Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging, edited by OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964–84, by Liz Millward We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles, edited by Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline Rankin STEVE GARLICK THE NATURE OF MASCULINITY Critical Theory, New Materialisms, and Technologies of Embodiment © UBC Press 2016 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without prior written permission of the publisher, or, in Canada, in the case of photocopying or other reprographic copying, a licence from Access Copyright, www.accesscopyright.ca. Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Garlick, Steve, author The nature of masculinity : critical theory, new materialisms, and technologies of embodiment / Steve Garlick. (Sexuality studies series) Includes bibliographical references and index. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-0-7748-3329-5 (hardback). – ISBN 978-0-7748-3331-8 (pdf). – ISBN 978-0-7748-3332-5 (epub). 1. Masculinity – Philosophy. I. Title. II. Series: Sexuality studies series HQ1090.G37 2016 305.31 C2016-904109-3 C2016-904110-7 UBC Press gratefully acknowledges the financial support for our publishing program of the Government of Canada (through the Canada Book Fund), the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council. This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Set in Myriad and Minion by Marquis Interscript Copy editor: Robert Lewis Cover designer: Martyn Schmoll UBC Press The University of British Columbia 2029 West Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 www.ubcpress.ca Contents Acknowledgments / ix Introduction: The Nature of Masculinity / 3 1 Social Theory, Masculinity, and New Materialisms / 9 2 Technologies of Embodiment: Toward a New Critical Theory of Masculinity / 58 3 Autoerotic Bodies: Biopolitics, Masculinity, and Nature / 99 4 Pornographic Bodies: Affect, Masculinity, and Technology / 131 5 Violent Bodies: Complexity and the Spectacle of Masculinity / 163 6 The Work of Masculinity / 195 References / 206 Index / 222 This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgments Ideas and books emerge out of environments, both professional and personal. Disentangling contributions and lines of causality is a never-ending pursuit. Nevertheless, I wish to acknowledge colleagues and students in the Cultural, Social, and Political Thought program at the University of Victoria for their part in fostering a stimulating environment in which theoretical endeavours flourish. Similarly, support from and conversations with Myra Hird and Patricia Clough, in what now seems like the distant past, helped to nurture nascent forms of the ideas contained here, which persist in different ways. I would like to thank everyone at UBC Press, especially my editor Darcy Cullen, as well as the press’s anonymous readers, who helped clarify the arguments that run throughout this book. Finally, I would like to acknowledge and thank Marisa and Louisa for their contributions to everything that has found its way into these pages. This page intentionally left blank THE NATURE OF MASCULINITY
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