About the book, from the publisher:
The masculinity of those who serve in the American military would seem to be indisputable, yet it is full of contradictions. To become a warrior, one must renounce those things in life that are perceived to be unmasculine. Yet at the same time, the military has encouraged and even mandated warriors to do exactly the opposite.Read chapter 1 of Bring Me Men, and learn more about the book and author at Aaron Belkin's website.
Bring Me Men explores these contradictions in great detail and shows that their invisibility has been central to the concealment of American empire’s darkest secrets. By examining case studies that expose these contradictions—the phenomenon of male-on-male rape at the U.S. Naval Academy, for example, as well as historical and contemporary attitudes toward cleanliness and filth—Belkin utterly upends our understanding of the relationship between warrior masculinity, American empire and the fragile processes sustaining it.
The Page 99 Test: Bring Me Men.
--Marshal Zeringue
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