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Revised and updated, this book reverses the tendency in gender studies to portray men as villains and women as victims in a bi-polar paradigm, presenting data and studies from the US, Canada and the UK in the development of a comparative and revised perspective on gender.

Masculinities: Football, Polo and the Tango in Argentina. Eduardo P. Archetti. New York: Berg, 1999. 212 pp.Football Hooligans: Knowing the Score. Gary Armstrong. New York: Berg, 1998. 361 pp.Manhood and Morality: Sex, Violence and Ritual in Gisu Society. Suzette Heald. New York: Routledge, 1999. 192 pp.What It Means to Be. Man: Reflections on Puerto Rican Masculinity. Rafael L. Ramírez. translated by Rosa E. Casper. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999 139 pp.

An exploration of the social construction of sight, considering: (1) the supremacy of sight in the sensorium, in language, proverbs, & literature, rooted in the ancient Greek & Christian traditions; (2) the evil eye: the distrust of sight in the ascetic Christian tradition, & more recent critiques in Rene Descartes, & then in Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel Foucault, & the women's movement, from very different perspectives; & (3) the semiotics of the eye as symbolic of the self: the I is the eye, & the eye is the I. 47 References. AA

Rares sont les sociologues qui ont étudié les sens. Or, de tous les sens, c'est l'odorat qui a toujours été et demeure sans doute encore le moins valorisé. Dans cette communication, l'auteur examine quelques‐uns des rôles de l'odorat dans les interactions sociales, notamment l'importance de l'odorat dans la construction morale du soi et de l'autre dans le cadre des relations entre personnes de classe différente, d'origine ethnique différente et de sexe différent. Les équations fondamentales, symboliques plutôt que chimiques, sont les suivantes: celui ou ce qui sent bon est bon et vice versa; et celui ou ce qui est mauvais sent mauvais et vice versa. Dans les relations entre groupes, ces équations servent, d'une part, à légitimer les différences de pouvoir et, d'autre part, à les contester d'une manière fort intime.Sociologists have rarely researched the senses; and of all the senses, smell has been, and probably still is, the least valued. In this paper we consider some of the roles of smell in social interaction, particularly the significance of smell in the moral construction of the self and the other, in terms of class, ethnic and gender relations. The fundamental equations, symbolic rather than chemical, are that who or what smells good is good, and vice versa; and who or what is bad or evil smells bad, and vice versa. Such equations are utilized in intergroup relations to legitimate power differentials, and also to challenge them, in a most intimate way.

The use of the beauty mystique to distinguish "good" guys from "bad" guys in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels is discussed. It is argued that in these novels beauty is equated with goodness & ugliness with foreigners & evil; chauvinist & fascist implications of this semiotic formula for success are discussed. 34 References. D. Generoli