Dear friends and colleagues
A new issue of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (JMMS) is now
available online on an open access basis. Volume 1, Number 2 contains:
Editorial:
Joseph Gelfer, Editor's Note (pp. 114-115)
Articles:
Stefan Horlacher, From a Metaphysics of Presence to the Blessings of
Absence: The Medial Construction of Masculine Identity in Thomas Hardy's
Novel Jude the Obscure (pp. 116-136)
Elizabeth Ruchti, The Performance of Normativity: Mormons and the
Construction of an American Masculinity (pp. 137-154)
Lisa Tyler, “He Was Pretty Good in There Today”: Reviving the Macho Christ
in Ernest Hemingway’s "Today is Friday" and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the
Christ (pp. 155-169)
Brendan Smyth, To Love the Orientalist: Masculinity in Leila Aboulela's The
Translator (pp. 170-182)
Book Reviews:
Bjorn Krondorfer, Review of Kathryn M. Ringrose, The Perfect Servant:
Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium (pp. 183-185)
Bjorn Krondorfer, Review of Donald Boisvert, Sanctity and Male Desire: A Gay
Reading of Saints (pp. 186-188)
William G. Doty, Review of Richard Jeffrey Newman, The Silence of Men: Poems
(pp. 189-190)
Craig This, Review of Scott Thumma & Edward R. Gray (Eds.), Gay Religion
(pp. 191-193)
Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Review of John Ibson, Picturing Men: A Century of
Male Relationships in Everyday American Photography (pp. 194-195)
Myron M. Beasley, Review of Charise L. Cheney, Brothers Gonna Work It Out:
Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (pp. 196-198)
JMMS is currently seeking papers and reviews for its third general issue,
with a deadline of 1 September 2007. JMMS will consider previously published
papers that are not available elsewhere on the Internet if the author has
retained copyright.
Please refer to our website for further information: http://www.jmmsweb.org
Kind regards,
Joseph Gelfer
Managing Editor
Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality
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