Task 10

Author Surname, Author First Name (Year of Publication): Title. Place of Publication. Publisher.

When on a date with my study buddy Gurveer, I choose these particular books to help guide me with my independant study...

1) Brook, Will (2001): Batman Unmasked - Analysing a Cultural Icon. United States of America: The Continum publishing Group Inc.
Page 33 - Origins and Wartime:
"Batman survival as a cultural icon oer sixty years can be attributed to his ability to adapt and change with the period"
"The Batman of this period is not able more for his consistency and adherance to an established template than his fludity; a fast made all the more remarkable when we consider that the surronding culture was undergoing the profound changees of the second world war"

2) Tannen, Deborah (1991): You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in conversation. Great Britain: William Morrow and company.
Page 236
Damned if you do:
"When women and men got together, they tended to avoid the topics that each group liked best and settle on topics to interest to both"

3) Glover, David/ Kaplan, Cora (2000): Genders the new critical idiom. London + New York: Routledge.
Page 59-61
The Manly Ideal
"Mosse presents a broad brush survey that charts the rise and gradual erosion of what he variously calls "the dominant masculine sterotype", "Normative masculinity", or more simply, "the manly ideal", a highly charged bundle of ideal that he traces back to the late eighteenth century".

4) Clare, Anthony (2001): Masculinity in crisis. United Kingdom: Arrow Books.
Page 33
Origiins and Wartime
"Boys and grown men have always taken for granted that what they were doing was more important than what the other sex was doing, that where they were was where the action was, that their women accpeted the defintion"
"Men were doing was some altruistic and life enhancing and intellectually demanding activities"

5) Craig, Steve (1992): Men, Masculinity and the Media. Newbury Park, CA:Sage.