Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering

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http://www.mediaed.org Wrestling with Manhood is the first educational program to pay attention to the enormous popularity of professional wrestling among male youth, addressing its relationship to real-life violence and probing the social values that sustain it as a powerful cultural force. Richly illustrating their analysis with numerous examples, Sut Jhally and Jackson Katz � the award-winning creators of the videos Dreamworlds and Tough Guise, respectively � offer a new way to think about the enduring problems of men�s violence against women and bullying in our schools. Drawing the connection between professional wrestling and the construction of contemporary masculinity, they show how so-called �entertainment� is related to homophobia, sexual assault and relationship violence. They further argue that to not engage with wrestling in a serious manner allows cynical promoters of violence and sexism an uncontested role in the process by which boys become �men.� Designed to engage the wrestling fan as well as the cultural analyst, Wrestling with Manhood will provoke spirited debate about some of our most serious social problems.

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Uploaded: October 4th, 2006 @ 9:16 am
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