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Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, & Keith Pringle, eds., INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEN AND MASCULINITIES. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007. 704p. Print edition, $230.00, ISBN 978-0415333436; ebook, ISBN 9780203413067.
Diederik F. Janssen, ed., INTERNATIONAL GUIDE TO LITERATURE ON MASCULINITY: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Harriman, TN: The Men's Studies Press, 2008. 312p. Pap., $45.00, ISBN 978-1931342179; ebook, $15.00, ISBN 978-1931342186.
Reviewed by Gwen C. Verkuilen-Chevalier
The field of masculine studies has seen tremendous growth in terms of scholarship in the past twenty years. Similar to women's studies in its approach, masculine or men's studies relies on cross-cultural, interdisciplinary analysis to inform its research. Although a number of existing readers, handbooks, and compilations have gathered scholarship on this burgeoning discipline, it has not been until the release of the International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities (IEMM) and the International Guide to Literature on Masculinity: A Bibliography (IGLM) that men's studies has had reference works that view the discipline through an international lens.
The IEMM is a milestone in the field of men's studies. The first reference work to tackle the daunting task of placing men's studies in an international landscape, it excels at injecting an international examination into its discussion. Consisting of a total of 353 entries, ranging from what its editors term "major topic" essays, through "important" topics to "concept/term" entries, the IEMM is an exemplar of what a reference work should be: effortlessly usable, thematically and alphabetically organized,...