[GET] Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live

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Quote:"Murphy reveals much about the heterosexual/masculine assumptions that all of us contend with on a daily basis. This book has the potential to make us, both men and women, rethink our beliefs and change the way we configure our language and relationships." - James D. Armstrong, editor of Distant Mirrors: America as a Foreign Culture "In this brave and provocative book, Peter F. Murphy looks inside the metaphors of masculinity to reveal that sexual slang is more about fear than power, more about distrust than control, more about softness than hardness. Our language, our bodies, our selves - a paper-thin veneer that masquerades as cold, hard steel." - Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America"

Quote:"How we talk about ourselves as men can alter the way we live as men," contends Peter F. Murphy in his impressive Studs, Tools, and the Family Jewels: Metaphors Men Live By. Citing the machine "finely tuned, well-oiled, unemotional, hard, and cost-effective" as "the most powerful cultural metaphor for masculinity," Murphy, chair of the English and philosophy department at Murray State University in Kentucky and editor of Fictions of Masculinity, traces this and other gendered imagery used to describe men, women, sexuality and sex. Zeroing in on words battle terminology, terms from "studmuffin" to "gang bang," sexual slurs and euphemisms this scholarly treatise exhaustively probes the influence of sexual language on human relationship.

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