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Author Dececco, Phd, John

Title The Bear Book : Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (309 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; About the Editor; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Theoretical Bears; Introduction; The Indeterminacy of Social Identity; Utopia, Queer Nationalism, and Bears in Community; Bears and the Beauty Myth; Bears Among the Social Classes; Bears as a Response to AIDS; Section I: History; Chapter 1. A Concise History of Self-Identifying Bears; Roots; First-Wave Bears of the Zeitgeist, 1986-1989; Play Parties; BEAR Magazine; Cybearspace -- Second Wave: Formalizing, 1989-1994
A Decade of Bears: Globalization or Tribalism?Chapter 2. Bear Roots; Chapter 3. The Bear Clan: North American Totemic Mythology, Belief, and Legend; The Bear as Healer -- The Bear as Creator -- The Bear as Warrior -- The Bear as Renewer -- Chapter 4. Aroused from Hibernation; Chapter 5. Bearaphernalia: An Exercise in Social Definition; Chapter 6. Academics as Bears: Thoughts on Middle-Class Eroticization of Workingmen's Bodies; Class, Silences, and Ursine Representations; The Subtext of Erotic Class Warfare; Bears, Ideology, and the Urge for Reunification; Section II: Bear Images
Chapter 7. Male Images in the Gay Mass Media and Bear-Oriented Magazines: Analysis and ContrastIntroduction; Male Body Imagery in the Mass Media; A Content Analysis of Gay Mass Media Images; A Beauty Myth for Gay Men?; Body Types, Self-Esteem, and Identity; Voices in the Woods -- The Rise of Bear Media; What Does a Bear Look Like?; The ""Superbear"" Stereotype; Conclusion and Areas for Further Research; Chapter 8. Beardom; Chapter 9. The Natural Bears Classification System: A Classification System for Bears and Bearlike Men Version 1.10; The Classification Scheme; Other Classifiers for Bears
Additional PunctuationChapter 10. John Rand, Photographer: An Interview with Les Wright; Section III: Bear Spaces; Chapter 11. The Original Bears Mailing List: An Interview with Steve Dyer; Chapter 12. Front Range Bears: A History; Chapter 13. The Bear Essentials of Country Music; Section IV: Bear Spaces: San Francisco; Chapter 14. The Bear Hug Group: An Interview with Sam Ganczaruk; Chapter 15. BEAR Magazine; Chapter 16. Bear Mecca: The Lone Star Saloon Revisited; Section V: Bears Abroad; Chapter 17. Bears in the Land Down Under; Bear Clubs in Oz; The Demise of Ozbears
The Future of Bears in AustraliaChapter 18. Kiwi Bears; Chapter 19. Atlantic Crossing: The Development of the Eurobear; Bear Mark I-The American Model; Bear Mark II-Eurobear: The General Model; Bear Mark III-Eurobear: The German Model; Bear Mark IV-Whither Eurobear?; Chapter 20. A French Bear Asks: Are Bears an American Thing?; Index
Summary The Bear Book brings together an impressive range of bear--usually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts--viewpoints to explore this unique social and cultural phenomenon that stretches from America to western Europe to Australia! On the personal level, you learn what beardom means to different people in their daily lives, and on a broader level, its cultural implications for not only the gay community, but also society as a whole. As this book moves across the wide spectrum of bear identities, you learn about the defining forces of identity, the
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Form Electronic book
Author Wright, Les
ISBN 9781317712404
1317712404