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Readings are (at least) listed for the first week that they are introduced.
I (cameron) tried to link later weeks back to the same pages but there is no guarantee that it worked perfectly so I would recommend checking the syllabus. This is mostly relevant for the books that we are reading over the course of multiple weeks.
Week 1: Introduction: Why Manhood?
Week 2: Encounters: Masculinity in Contact
Week 3: Masculinity, Race, and Slavery
Week 4: Self-Making in the North
Week 5: Becoming Bourgeois Men
Week 6: Making Southern White Manhood
Week 7: Violence, Race, and Manhood
Week 8: Gendered “Civilization”
Week 9: Manhood and Empire
Week 10: Work, Play, and Manhood
Week 11: Making Heterosexuals and Homosexuals
Week 12: Female Husbands
Week 13: Sexuality and Manhood in the Twentieth Century
Week 14: Manhood and Race in the Twentieth Century
Kimmel:
Here, Kimmel places emphasis on the masculinity crisis of the 20th Century, where masculinity became reconstructed via socioeconomic change. At this point in time, industrial labor began to decline which compromised the identities of traditional male roles. Masculinity shifted and men experienced challenges to their authority at the hands of the Women's Movement which urged men to reshape their roles in the workplace and at home. This shift contributed to the hypermasculine “angry white male” as a response to the renegotiation of their roles in society. Here is another point in which men chose to redefine manhood through various groups that focus on emotional male healing and gender equality in regards to emotional expression and introspection through personal, political, and social outlets. This reaction highlights the instability and constantly contested nature of masculinity with a very traditional blueprint. (Reiley Gibson)