Books like International encyclopedia of men and masculinities by Michael Flood

A pioneering study of 19th‑century American gender relations, examining male attitudes toward masculinity, women's roles and sexuality, and the social context that shaped sexual customs in the United States.

An exploration of the fears, desires, and challenges faced by Black men, examining how patriarchy and societal expectations influence their lives and how redemption and love can offer healing.

John Tosh explores how Victorian ideals shaped men's lives, revealing the tensions between domestic expectations and emerging bachelor culture in 19th‑century Britain.

Examining the turn‑of‑the‑century shift in American masculinity, this book traces how evolving ideals linked primitive virility with white superiority.

"Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectations that we struggle to call it fully into question. Pierre Bourdieu's ethnographic analysis of gender divisions in Kabyle society, as a living reservoir of the Mediterranean cultural tradition, provides a potent instrument for disclosing the symbolic structures which survives in the men and women of our own societies." "Bourdieu analyses masculine dominations as a paradigmatic form of symbolic violence - the kind of gentle, invisible, pervasive violence which is exercised through cognition and misrecognition, knowledge and sentiment, often with the unwitting consent of the dominated. To understand this form of domination we must analyse both its invariant features and the historical work of dehistoricization through which social institutions - family, school, church, state - eternalize the arbitrary at the root of men's power. This analysis leads directly to the political question: can we neutralize the mechanisms through which history is continuously turned into nature, thereby freeing the forces of change and accelerating the incipient transformations of the relations between the sexes?" "This new book by Pierre Bourdieu - which has been a bestseller in France - will be essential reading for students and scholars across the social sciences and humanities, and for anyone concerned with questions of gender, sexuality and power."--BOOK JACKET.