Cool Men and the Second Sex
by Susan Fraiman
224 pages· 2012· ISBN 9780231503327
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Academic superstars Andrew Ross, Edward Said, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Bad boy filmmakers Quentin Tarantino, Spike Lee, and Brian de Palma. What do these influential contemporary figures have in common? In Cool Men and the Second Sex, Susan Fraiman identifies them all with ""cool masculinity"" and boldly unpacks the gender politics of their work. According to Fraiman, ""cool men"" rebel against a mainstream defined as maternal. Bad boys resist the authority of women and banish mothers to the realm of the uncool. As a result, despite their hipness -- or because o.
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