Gender Threat: American Masculinity in the Face of Change

201 Pages·2021·2.088 MB·English

by  Yasemin Besen-Cassino, Dan Cassino

GENDER THREAT
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GENDER THREAT
American Masculinity in the Face of Change
Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen-C assino
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Stanford, California
Stanford University Press
Stanford, California
© 2022 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.
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Printed in the United States of America on acid- free, archival- quality paper
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Cassino, Dan, 1980- author. | Besen- Cassino, Yasemin, author.
Title: Gender threat : American masculinity in the face of change /
(cid:2)Dan Cassino and Yasemin Besen- Cassino.
Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. |
(cid:2)Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifi ers: LCCN 2021018468 (print) | LCCN 2021018469 (ebook) |
(cid:2)ISBN 9781503610361 (cloth) | ISBN 9781503629899 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781503629905 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Masculinity— United States. | Men— United States—
(cid:2)Identity. | Gender identity— United States.
Classifi cation: LCC HQ1090.3 .C385 2021 (print) | LCC HQ1090.3 (ebook) |
(cid:2)DDC 305.310973— dc23
LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2021018468
LC ebook record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov /2021018469
Cover design: Michel Vrana
Cover photo: iStock
Typeset by Newgen North America in 10/14 Mercury Text G1
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
1 Threatened Identity 1
2 Mad Men at Work 17
3 Men and Politics 41
4 Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity 63
5 God, Guns, and Pornography 83
6 Alternate Masculinities 109
7 The Future of Men 128
Appendix: Methodology Notes 141
Works Cited 173
Index 185
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We were invited to the University Gothenburg during the summer of 2018.
The Gender Diversity Workshop held there in June 2018 was essential
for the theoretical conceptualization of our book. We would like to thank
Aliya Saperstein, Laurel Westbrook, Katie Bolzendahl, Lena W ängnerud,
Elizabeth Goodyear- Grant, Amanda Bittner, and Johanna Rickne.
We are also grateful to the teams at Data For Progress, CIDE Mexico,
and our colleagues at the FDU/PublicMind Poll for providing essential
data.
We would like to thank the wonderful team at Stanford University
Press, especially our editor Marcela Cristina Maxfi eld. We also thank our
series editors Paula England and David Grusky for their insightful com-
ments and suggestions.
We would like to acknowledge a Career Development Grant from
Montclair State University. And we thank our graduate assistant Hean
Zeidner Kaspi, who helped us to code blogs and websites for our discus-
sion in Chapter 6.
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