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Mixing Memory and Desire: Red Sorghum: A Chinese Version of Masculinity and Femininity
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Public Culture (1989) 2 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 January 1989
...Yeujin Wang Copyright © 1989-90 by Duke University Press 1989 Mixing Memory and Desire:
Red Sorghum
A Chinese Version of
Masculinity and Femininity
Yeujin Wang
East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department
Harvard University
The film Red Sorghum (Dir. Zhang Yimou, 1987...
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The Ethics of Self-Rule: Violence and Masculinity in Contemporary South Africa
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Public Culture (2011) 23 (2): 275–284.
Published: 01 May 2011
... . Zevenbergen, Aernout. 2009 . Spots of a leopard: On being a man. Cape Town, South Africa: Laughing Leopard. Žižek, Slavoj. 2008 . Violence: Six sideways reflections. New York: Picador. The Ethics of Self-Rule:
Violence and Masculinity...
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Reconstructing Corrosion: A Conversation with Pallavi Govindnathan
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Public Culture (2010) 22 (1): 17–23.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Poornima Paidipaty Poornima Paidipaty interviews the artist Pallavi Govindnathan on two recent series, Acerbic Drips and Reconstruction , which chronicle the social, psychic, and physical effects of acid attacks on young women in Bangladesh. This conversation explores questions of masculinity...
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“It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp... with... a Whole Lot of Bitches Jumpin' Ship”: Navigating Black Politics in the Wake of Katrina
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Public Culture (2009) 21 (2): 343–376.
Published: 01 May 2009
... and exploring the spellbinding power of masculine leadership in Hustle and Flow , where the labor of an entire household is required to produce a male rapper as an icon of fame whose lyrical talent propels him into the spotlight. I consider these two episodes against the political backdrop of 2005–6, defined...
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Every Turk Is Born a Soldier
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Public Culture (2017) 29 (3 (83)): 418–432.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Noah Arjomand This essay follows a young barber named Mehmet as he joins the Turkish military in the wake of the country’s July 15, 2016, coup attempt. Mehmet’s preconscription rituals are used as an synecdochic entry point for a discussion of masculine dignity and control over public space as key...
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Dragon Ladies, Draggin’ Men: Some Reflections on Gender, Drag and Homosexual Communities
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Public Culture (1994) 6 (2): 343–363.
Published: 01 May 1994
... invisibility in our society.
This invisibility allows us to see both how the masculine and the feminine are
defined in opposition to each other, and how relationships to men function as
the critical factor in gaining social visibility and cultural...
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Power, Privilege, and the (Extrajudicial) Punishment of Rape in Brazil
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Public Culture (2020) 32 (1): 163–183.
Published: 01 January 2020
... imprisonment to be a humiliating loss of honor that throws their masculinity in crisis; the act of sexually violating a more abject prisoner provides a way for an inmate to redeem his own honor and virility, while also restoring to the institution of the family the sanctity that the sex offender had violated...
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Man: An American Assay
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 55–64.
Published: 01 January 2003
... Lipman’s decade-long inquiry
Tinto the rituals that mark the production of masculinity in late-capitalist
America. They are a testament to the energies generated, and always incompletely
incorporated, by liberal governmentality...
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A Consumer and a Gentleman
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Public Culture (1990) 2 (2): 129–134.
Published: 01 May 1990
... the others for the tourists.
Serious cheesecake is not just urban, it is masculine: rich, dense, solid,
heavy, plain, appreciated by aficionados. Unserious cheesecake is light,
flurry, airy, cloying. "If the traces of lemon and vanilla are more than barely
detectable, the cake is wrong." WRONG...
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Measurement and Modernity: Height, Gender, and Le Corbusier’s Modulor
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Public Culture (2019) 31 (1): 21–43.
Published: 01 January 2019
... [1948]: 55) created a drawing (see fig. 1 ) that featured two tape measures set vertically adjacent to a masculine body. Known as the Modulor Man (or as “Charlie” to Le Corbusier’s critics [ Pevsner 1957 ]), the body was intersected by golden ratios. Because the Modulor Man conformed to the proportions...
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Transforming Heroes: Hollywood and the Demonization of Women
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Public Culture (1991) 3 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 May 1991
... of self-reliance and candor with masculinity
brought the very manhood of the organization man into question.
Deferential and self-effacing in the presence of superiors, obliged to rely on
charm, seduction, and deceit, the dependent bureaucratic employee appeared
to social critics to have assumed...
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Moving Rape: Trafficking in the Violence of Postliberalization
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Public Culture (2015) 27 (2 (76)): 331–359.
Published: 01 May 2015
... violence to illuminate the relationship between economic privatization and privacy in India today. 2015 call centers cars class India masculinity rape culture violence The protests initially provoked by the gang rape and murder of a physiotherapy student on a bus in New Delhi...
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Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion: Affective Materiality and Agential Ambivalence in Sisi's Cairo
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Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 49–71.
Published: 01 January 2023
... focus on a specific category of activist “middle-class” men and modes of masculinities. It is difficult to describe the kind of manhood that characterizes this category, since there are always differences within one group. The production of masculinities is an open-ended embodied life process, actively...
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Making Citizens, Reassembling Devices: On Gender and the Development of Contemporary Public Sites of Repair in Northern California
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Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 51–77.
Published: 01 January 2014
... Alex . 2008 . “ Hacker Practice: Moral Genres and the Cultural Articulation of Liberalism .” Anthropological Theory 8 , no. 1 : 255 – 77 . doi: 10.1177/1463499608093814 . Connell Robert W . 1998 . “ Masculinities and Globalization .” Men and Masculinities 1 , no. 1 : 3 – 23...
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From Bobbitt to SCUM: Re-memberment, Scatological Rhetorics, and Feminist Strategies in the Contemporary United States
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Public Culture (1996) 8 (3): 511–537.
Published: 01 September 1996
.... 1969 . Masculine/Feminine: Readings in Sexual Mythology and the Liberation of Women . New York: Harper and Row. Ryan , Mary . 1990 . Women in the Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825–1880 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Scholder , Amy . 1993 . Critical Condition...
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A Response to Bill Maurer
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Public Culture (1992) 4 (2): 149–156.
Published: 01 May 1992
... the post-American mapped on to recent
arguments about the post-masculine, for instance; the resulting topography
would highlight how rhetorics of re-Americanization and remasculinization
intersect in the depiction of sports? But even that discussion, I suspect,
would not quite achieve Maurer’s...
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Public Culture (2003) 15 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 January 2003
... photographic
meditation on the physicality and rituals of late-capitalist, heteronormative, Amer-
ican masculinity in the making. These photographs capture strangely unguarded
moments in such highly disciplined contexts as military academies, boot...
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Sounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in Urban South Africa
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Public Culture (2006) 18 (1): 185–208.
Published: 01 January 2006
..., the infinite play of desire
and pleasure in the city, assertive masculinity — but it also signals the township
itself, that is, a space of blackness that is plebeian, no-nonsense, defiant, and,
potentially, violent. While the thumping bass...
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Keith Haring and Queer Xerography
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Public Culture (2007) 19 (2): 329–348.
Published: 01 May 2007
... of Criminality (New York: Garland, 1993); Ivor L. Miller, Aerosol Kingdom: Sub-
way Painters of New York City (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002); Nancy Macdonald,
The Graffiti Subculture: Youth, Masculinity, and Identity in London and New York (New York...
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Red Mosque
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Public Culture (2008) 20 (1): 19–26.
Published: 01 January 2008
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than to the masculine character of Sunni militancy, especially of the anti-Shiite
kind that we are told dominated the Red Mosque. Neither of the institution’s lead-
ers, for example, made any anti-Shia statements in the numerous interviews...
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