© Columbia University Press
Cool Men and the Second Sex
Paper, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12963-3
$30.00
/ £17.50
November, 2003
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12962-6
$75.00
/ £44.00
"Cool Men and the Second Sex is a much needed, timely "speakout" book." — Women's Review of Books
"With wit, guts, and the kind of critical crankiness that can give left critique what it really needs, Susan Fraiman dissects the celebrity culture of academic masculine cool. Required reading for anyone unafraid of being abad girl!" — Robyn Wiegman, Margaret Taylor Smith Director of Women's Studies at Duke University and author of American Anatomies
"Bad girls will cackle; good girls may cringe: a must-read for both! Susan Fraiman rounds up not the usual suspects, but some of the most influential stars on the cinematic and academic circuit for a rousing feminist critique." — Susan Gubar, Indiana University
"Addressing recent key offerings in contemporary cinema as well as in critical race and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies, Susan Fraiman carefully demonstrates how women and femininity are implicitly derogated even in the most consciously progressive cultural work. Motivated by a time-honored ethic of left self-critique rather than simple iconoclasm, Fraiman engages emblematic figures in various fields in order to suggest that sexism continues to implicate us all, and that we all must accordingly recommit ourselves to combating sexism." — Phillip Brian Harper, New York University
"A smart, lively, provocative work. . . . The chapters on Tarantino and Gates are absolutely brilliant: the writing is dazzling, the analysis powerful and completely persuasive. There were moments. . . that I felt like applauding." — Jane Gallop, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee