{"product_id":"some-styles-of-masculinity-paperback","title":"Some Styles of Masculinity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGregg Bordowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHua Hsu\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn intimate, urgent and riotous account of masculinity, whiteness, queerness and belief in America\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn winter 2018, Gregg Bordowitz performed a three-part lecture series at the New Museum as part of \u003ci\u003eTrigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon\u003c\/i\u003e. Each evening, he explored an avatar of masculinity that was formative to him as he came of age as an outer-borough child of Jewish immigrants, then as an artist-activist in Manhattan at the dawn of the AIDS crisis: the rock star, the rabbi and the comedian. He merged personal and political history, ribald humor and social criticism, performer and persona.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome Styles of Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e is a self-portrait and an essay on upheaval and plague, based on transcripts of the eponymous series, which Bordowitz has reimagined for the page. He asserts that gender can't be separated from ethnicity, sexuality, class or nationality, and he connects these aspects of himself through personal anecdotes as well as reflections on whiteness, diaspora, comedy and Jewish mysticism. \u003ci\u003eSome Styles of Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e evokes David Antin's \"talk poems,\" Maggie Nelson's \"autotheory,\" David France's \u003ci\u003eHow to Survive a Plague\u003c\/i\u003e and Wayne Koestenbaum's casually erudite criticism. This book is a winding, intimate, urgent, freewheeling account of thinking and enduring in difficult times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGregg Bordowitz\u003c\/b\u003e (born 1964) is the author of \u003ci\u003eGlenn Ligon: Untitled (I Am a Man)\u003c\/i\u003e (2018), \u003ci\u003eGeneral Idea: Imagevirus\u003c\/i\u003e (Afterall Books, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eThe AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous and Other Writings, 1986-2003\u003c\/i\u003e (2004). He was an early participant in ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), where he cofounded several video collectives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.1 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765176271136,"sku":"9780997852455","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dd342ca0c2d31d0ea6f7ca8ad13cbe46.webp?v=1780263045","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/some-styles-of-masculinity-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}