The Most Beautiful Boy In the World.

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Beautiful boys/outlaw bodies : devising Kabuki female-likeness / Katherine Mezur. by Mezur, Katherine

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Manga : an anthology of global and cultural perspectives / edited by Toni Johnson-Woods.

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Montgomery Clift, queer star / Elisabetta Girelli. by Girelli, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Montgomery Clift and queer theory -- Irruption in Hollywood : the beautiful boy -- The peak of stardom : desire, multiplicity, deviancy -- The 1956 car accident and a new queerness -- The final period : "abnormality," asexuality, asynchrony -- Epilogue.…”
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Male homosexuality in modern Japan : cultural myths and social realities / Mark J. McLelland. by McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Homosexuality in Japanese history -- Just like a girl : images of homosexual men as feminine -- The love between "beautiful boys" in women's comics -- Gay men as women's best friends and ideal marriage partners -- Images of homosexuality in the gay media -- Interviews with Japanese gay men -- Japanese gay men's self-understanding -- Is there a Japanese gay identity?…”
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Can't I love what I criticize? : the masculine and Morrison / Susan Neal Mayberry. by Mayberry, Susan Neal, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Something other than a family quarrel: Morrison's review of the masculine -- Black boys, White gaze: a respectful publication of The bluest eye -- An elegy on Black masculinity: the beautiful boys in Sula -- Flying without ever leaving the ground: feminine masculinity in Song of Solomon -- The nigger in the woodpile: sons and lovers in Tar baby -- Circles of sorrow, sites of memory, forms of flooding: colored men's time in Beloved -- Classically re-training blues boys: Morrison's Jazz men -- Putting down parking lots out there: Morrison's unpaved male Paradise -- Laying down the law of the father: men in Love.…”
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Rebel Souls : Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians. by Martin, Justin

Table of Contents: “…Bold Women and Whitman's Beautiful Boys; 6. The Saturday Press -- 7. Leaves, Third Edition; 8. …”
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Asian masculinities : the meaning and practice of manhood in China and Japan / edited by Kam Louie and Morris Low.

Table of Contents: “…Chinese, Japanese and global masculine identities / Kam Louie -- "Beautiful boys made up as beautiful girls": anti-masculine taste in Qing China / Cuncun Wu -- Mr butterfly in defunct capital: "soft" masculinity and (mis)engendering China / Yiyan Wang -- Gay men, masculinity and the media in Japan / Mark McLelland -- The emperor's sons go to war: competing masculinities in modern Japan / Morris Low -- Sport and the construction of masculinity in the Japanese education system / Richard Light -- Creating corporate warriors: the "salaryman" and masculinity in Japan / Romit Dasgupta -- Rethinking male socialisation: life histories of Japanese male youth / Futoshi Taga -- The cooking man in modern Japanese literature / Tomoko Aoyama -- Desire and masculinity at the margins in Gu Cheng's ying'er / Simon Patton -- Male gender identity among Chinese male migrants / Ray Hibbins -- "Angry yellow men": cultural space for diasporic Chinese masculinities / Tseen Khoo.…”
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Sexual personae. Camille Paglia. by Paglia, Camille, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Apollo daemonized : decadent art -- Chapter 20. The beautiful boy as destroyer : Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray -- Chapter 21. …”
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Following Hadrian : a second century journey through the Roman Empire / Elizabeth Speller. by Speller, Elizabeth

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AsiaPacifiQueer : rethinking genders and sexualities / edited by Fran Martin Peter A. Jackson, Mark McLelland, and Audrey Yu.

Table of Contents: “…Darren Mackintosh -- Lilies of the margin : beautiful boys and queer female identities in Japan / James Welker -- Grrrl-queens : on-kotoba and the negotiation of heterosexist gender language norms and lesbo(homo)phobic stereotypes in Japanese / Claire Maree -- Politics and islam : factors determining identity and the status of male-to-female transsexuals in Malaysia / Yik Koon The -- Recognition through mis-recognition : masculine women in Hong Kong Kam Yip Lo Lucetta -- Being a young tomboy in Hong Kong : the life and identity construction of lesbian schoolgirls / Carmen Ka Man Tong -- The romance of the queer : the sexual and gender norms of Tom and Dee in Thailand / Megan Sinnott -- Bad-assed honeys with a difference : South Auckland Fa'afafine -- Talk about identity / Heather Worth -- Villa, Montano, Perez : postcoloniality and gay liberation in the Philippines / J. …”
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Words We Call Home : Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC. by Svendsen, Linda

Table of Contents: “…""ELIZABETH GOURLAY""""The Excuse""; ""The Discipline""; ""Snapshot""; ""PAUL GREEN""; ""The Age of Gold""; ""GENNI GUNN""; ""On the Road""; ""GEOFF HANCOCK""; ""The Stainless Steel Streamliner""; ""HART HANSON""; ""Beautiful Boy Fades""; ""ROBERT HARLOW""; ""Felice: A Travelogue""; ""ERNEST HEKKANEN""; ""The Rite""; ""GLADYS HINDMARCH""; ""Ucluelet""; ""JACK HODGINS""; ""Earthquake""; ""MARGARET HOLLINGSWORTH""; ""The House that Jack Built""; ""DEBBIE HOWLETT""; ""The Broom Closet""; ""ANN IRELAND""; ""The Doppler Effect""; ""SALLY IRELAND""; ""Lullaby""; ""SURJEET KALSEY""…”
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Men in the mirror : men's fashion, masculinity and consumer society / Tim Edwards. by Edwards, Tim, 1963-

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