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Performing the Kinaidos is the first book-length study to explore the figure of the kinaidos (Latin, cinaedus), a type of person noted in ancient literature for his effeminacy and untoward sexual behaviour. By exploring the presence of this unmanly man in a wide range of textual sources (Plato, Aeschines, Plautus, Catullus, Martial, Juvenal, documentary papyri, and dedicatory inscriptions) and across numerous locations (classical Greece,Ptolemaic Egypt, and the Roman world), Tom Sapsford demonstrates how this figure haunted, in different ways, the binary oppositions structuring ancient societies located around the Mediterranean from the seventh century BCE to the second century CE.Moving beyond previous debates over whether the kinaidos was an ancient 'homosexual' or not, the book re-evaluates this figure by analysing the multiple axes of difference such as sex, status, ethnicity, and occupation through which this type of person gained legibility in antiquity. It also emphasizes the kinaidos' role in the development of the category of the professional performer. The book centres the numerous descriptions of the specific poetic and dance stylesassociated with the kinaidos in ancient sources--a racy verse metre called the Sotadean and a rapid shimmying of the buttocks--and integrates them with the closely related issue of acceptable forms of male social performance in classical cultures.

Effeminacy --- Men --- History --- Sexual behavior --- Mediterranean Region --- Antiquities. --- Civilization.

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Masculinity --- Men --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- History

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Men --- Women --- German fiction --- Human males --- German literature --- Hommes --- Femmes --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity

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This book is the first to look at the wide range of contrasting images of the gay male body in Japanese popular culture, both mainstream and gay, and relate these images to the experience of an interview sample of Japanese gay men. In so doing, it touches on a number of important issues, including whether there can be a universal 'gay identity' and whether or not strategies developed for increasing gay and lesbian visibility in western countries are appropriate to the social situation in Japan

Male homosexuality --- Men --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Homosexuality, Male --- Homosexuality --- Sexual behavior

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A multidisciplinary, international approach is taken in this volume which contextualizes men's health issues within the broader theoretical framework of men's studies. The contributors argue that gender is a key factor for understanding the patterns of men's health risks, the ways men perceive and use their bodies and men's psychological adjustment to illness itself.

Men --- Human males --- Human beings --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Health and hygiene --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects.