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Masculinity, as both performed and studied, continues to be a particularly productive site for understanding cultural dynamics. This title provides a basic introduction to the question of masculinity before moving on to studies of masculinity, science, and the body.

Masculinity, as both performed and studied, continues to be a particularly productive site for understanding cultural dynamics. This title provides a basic introduction to the question of masculinity before moving on to studies of masculinity, science, and the body.

Portraits of self-made men are rife in Western culture, as James V. Catano observes. Positive and negative, admittedly fictional and ostensibly factual, these portraits endure because the general rhetorical practice embodied in the myth of the self-made man enacts both the need and the very means for making oneself masculine: verbal power and prowess. The myth of the self-made man, in short, is part of ongoing rhetorical practices that constit...