This collection of essays exposes the contradictions and constituencies in the ongoing reconstruction of white heterosexual masculinity during the 1980s and 1990s. From the rock 'n' roll bodies of Bruce Springsteen, Axl Rose and the late Kurt Cobain, the male-rampage films Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, and the sensitive transformation movies that followed in their wake, through to Fred Pfeil's humorous observations of the men's movement: Pfeil considers white, mainstream masculinity through direct participation in its rituals and practices.