Description: A theologically astute exploration of the varieties of masculinity, both historical and contemporary, through the lens of the psychoanalytic concept of sublimation.
Review Quotes: This is an intriguing, important, and timely book on multiple masculinities depicted through the prism of the concept of sublimation. Carlin and Capps, using biblical and contemporary examples, invite the reader toward a more complex, flexible, and deeper understanding of the varied ways men sublimate their erotic desires with other men and women. Indeed, the book itself is an illustration of the sublimation of sexual instincts, revealed in the shared serious and playful scholarship and friendship of these authors.--Ryan Lamothe, Professor of Pastoral Care and Counselling, St Meinrad School of Theology