Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Body, the Will and the Fear of Falling: The History of Masculine Self-Control -- 3 Consuming Manhood: The Feminization of American Culture and the Recreation of the Male Body, 1832-1920 -- 4 Men, Bodies and Identities -- 5 What's Behind the Mask? Bodybuilding and Masculinity -- 6 Putting on Make-up with Red Gloves: Masculine Aesthetics in an Exclusive Male Culture -- 7 When Boys Become Men: The Martial Arts as Young People's Revolt against the Youth Rebellion -- 8 Sylvester Stallone's Body: "A Peculiar, Not To Say Pathological, Interest -- 9 Searching for the Body: Making Connections between Health, Bodies and Men's Violence -- 10 Male Ways of Giving Birth -- 11 The Psychodynamics of Shame in the Autobiographies of Modern Finnish Men -- 12 Asthma: The Construction of the Masculine Body -- 13 Disabling Men: Masculinity and Disability in Al Davison's Graphic Autobiography The Spiral Cage -- 14 Ethos of Sexual Liberation and the Masculine Other -- 15 Coming Out to be Straight: Young Men's Constructions of Heterosexualities -- 16 "There has always been ..." Gay History in Politics and in Reality -- 17 Coming of Age in England: Black Gay Young Men's Schooling Experiences -- Index