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标题：What a Man's Gotta Do? Masculinities in Performance edited by Adrian Kiernander, Jonathan Bollen and Bruce Parr
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作者：Benjamin Miller
期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2007
卷号：7
页码：143-146
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：There is a need for balance in masculinity studies. The field must be complicated with issues of gender, race, sexuality and class to avoid the risk of normalising white, male heterosexuality as the natural/essential norm of masculinity. The fourteen essays collected in What a Man¡¯s Gotta Do? Masculinities in Performance aim to address these factors. The collection has excellent contributions from the fields of race, gender, queer and performance studies; most essays view masculinity as a performance whilst hinting at the enormous institutionalised and ideological pressures for men to perform ¡°dominant masculinities¡±. Yet, there is inconsistency in the definition of ¡°dominant masculinity¡± (with some contributors even simplifying the term to a universal ¡°masculinity¡±, ignoring how race, sexuality and class structure dominance). The strength of the overall collection, however, is that in presenting essays from a wide range of fields contradiction emerges, highlighting the complexities within the field of masculinity studies.