What is masculinity? Drawing on psychoanalysis and an understanding of ideology, Easthope shows how the masculine myth forces men to try to be masculine and only masculine, denying their feminine side. In an original contribution to the understanding of gender, he analyzes masculinity as it is represented in a wide range of mass media --films, television, newspapers, pop music, and pop novels. Why are two men in a John Wayne western more concerned with each other than with the women in their lives? Is aggressive male banter a sign that men hate or love each other? Why does a jealous man always have to see his rival? Written in lively, witty, and accessible style, What a Man's Gotta Do is certain to become controversial but essential reading.

What a Man's Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture

Politics & Social Sciences

Easthope,Antony

Social Sciences

Unwin Hyman

Privileging Difference

Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way. Celebrating variety for its own sake, Antony Easthope argues, cultural criticism too readily ignores the role of the text itself in addressing the desire of the reader. With characteristic directness, he takes to task the foremost theorists of the current generation one by one, including Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, Dona Haraway, Rosi Braidotti and Judith Butler. In a final tour de force, he contrasts what he calls the two Jakes, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida, to bring out the way their respective theories need each other. The book is vintage Easthope: wide-ranging, fearless, witty and a radical challenge to complacency wherever it is to be found.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Red Globe Press

A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

Literature & Fiction

Taylor & Francis Group

Praise for the first edition “The selection is judicious and valuably supplemented by thorough commentaries that contextualise and clarify the debates and issues and the importance of each excerpt. Though today there may be many readers in and around cultural and media studies, Easthope and McGowan’s remains vital…” Times Higher Educational Supplement This Reader introduces the key readings in critical and cultural theory. It guides students through the tradition of thought, from Saussure’s early writings on language to contemporary commentary on world events by theorists such as Baudrillard and Žižek. The readings are grouped according to six thematic sections: Semiology; Ideology; Subjectivity; Difference; Gender and Race; and Postmodernism.
 The second and expanded edition of this highly successful Reader reflects the growing diversity of the field. 
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<li>Featuring thirteen new essays, including essays by Homi Bhabha, Simone de Beauvoir, Franz Fanon and Judith Butler </li> <li>With a general introduction as well as useful introductions to each of the thematic sections</li> <li>Including summaries of each of the extracts – invaluable for students and lecturers. </li>
</ul> Key reading for areas of study including cultural studies, critical theory, literature, linguistics, English, media studies, communication studies, cultural history, sociology, gender studies, visual arts, film and architecture. Essays by: Louis Althusser, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Homi K. Bhabha, Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous, Simone de Beauvoir, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Frederick Engels, Franz Fanon, Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Colin MacCabe, Pierre Macherey, Karl Marx, Kobena Mercer, Laura Mulvey, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, Edward Said, Slavoj Žižek.

McGowan,Kate

Open University Press

What impact has post-structuralism had in England? The author suggests that French post-structuralism has acquired a radical and political force because it has been adopted within the British Marxist and left-culturalist inheritance.

British Post Structuralism

Routledge

Literary into Cultural Studies

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Poetry as Discourse (New Accents)

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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What a Man's Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture

Privileging Difference

Privileging Difference

A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

A Critical and Cultural Theory Reader

British Post Structuralism

Literary into Cultural Studies

Literary into Cultural Studies

Poetry as Discourse (New Accents)

Poetry as Discourse (New Accents)