Medicalized Masculinities

by Dana Rosenfeld (Editor), Christopher Faircloth (Editor)

Overview

When medicalization—the characterization of human traits in terms of disease and ailment—first appeared as a concept in the 1970s, most social science gender scholarship focused on female or genderless bodies. The work on men, health, and medicine was scant and tended to depict masculinity as intrinsically damaging to men's health.

Medicalized Masculinities considers how these threads in scholarship failed to consider the male body adequately and presents cutting-edge research into the definition and regulation of masculinity by medicine. Renowned health and gender studies experts examine medicalized conditions such as balding, aging, and other dimensions of the life cycle in the tradition of the sociology of health and gender.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439904572
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	09/04/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Dana Rosenfeld is Lecturer in the Department of Health and Social Care, Royal Holloway, University of London, and the author of The Changing of the Guard: Lesbian and Gay Elders, Identity, and Social Change (Temple). Her interests include the medical and lay interpretation, management and regulation of the body, the experience of embodiment in ill health and old age, and identity in historical and interactional context.

Christopher Faircloth is a Research Health Scientist at the North Florida- South Georgia VA Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy at the University of Florida. He is the editor of the forthcoming Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Medicalized Masculinities: The Missing Link? – Dana Rosenfeld and Christopher Alan Faircloth1. The Viagra Blues: Embracing or Resisting the Viagra Body – Meika Loe2. Sex the Natural Way: The Marketing of Cialis and Levitra – Chris Wienke3. The Leaky Male Body: Forensics and the Construction of the Sexual Suspect – Lisa Jean Moore and Heidi Durkin4. Medicalizing the Aging Male Body: Andropause and Baldness – Julia E. Szymczak and Peter Conrad5. Dissecting Medicine: Gender Biases in the Discourses and Practices of Medical Anatomy – Alan Petersen and Sam Regan De Bere6. Making the Grade: The Gender Gap, ADHD, and the Medicalization of Boyhood – Nicky Hart with Noah Grand and Kevin Riley7. The Sexual Savage: Race Science and the Medicalization of Black Masculinity – Ann Marie Hickey8. Medicalizing Military Masculinity: Reconstructing the War Veteran in PTSD Therapy – Marisa Smith

Editorial Reviews

"[A]n excellent collection that will be required reading for scholars interested in gender and health. Its clear and lively writing, the wealth of background information in the introduction, and its contributors’ compelling identification and analysis of key sites for the medicalization of masculinity in American today make it a pivotal addition to the fields of medicalization and gender research. Its accessibility and topicality will also make it an excellent teaching resource."
—Archives of Sexual Behavior

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