This special issue of Paragraph brings together differing approaches (from a diverse range of disciplines) to the question of the representation of men's bodies in twentieth-century visual culture.

Judith Still is Professor of French and Critical Theory and Head of the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Justice and Differences in the Works of Rousseau (CUP, 1993), Feminine Economies: Thinking against the Market in the Enlightenment and the Late Twentieth Century (MUP, 1997), Derrida and Hospitality (EUP, 2010, Gapper Prize winner 2011) and Enlightenment Hospitality (Voltaire Foundation, 2011).

(Re)presenting Masculinities: Introduction to Men's Bodies, JUDITH STILL; SECTION I: Re-posing Men; Masculinity and Muscularity: Dr Paul Richer and Modern Manhood, ANTHEA CALLEN; Kitsch and Classicism: the Male Nude in the 20th Century, EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH; Morimura/Duchamp: 'Image Recycling' and Parody, KERSTIN BRANDES; Show your Wounded Manliness: Promises of Salvation in the Work of Joseph Beuys, CORINNA TOMBERGER; Tom's Men: the Masculinization of Homosexuality and the Homosexualization of Masculinity at the end of the Twentieth Century, GUY SNAITH; Freak Flag: Humour and the Photography of George Dureau, MELODY D. DAVIS; In Conversation: Photographer Ajamu and Cultural Critic Anita Naoko Pilgrim, AJAMU X AND ANITA NAOKO PILGRIM; What is a Man? Looking at the Traces of Men's Sexuality, Race and Class in the Work of Some Contemporary Photographers, JUDITH STILL; Fellas in Full Frontal Frolics: Naked Men in For Women magazine, CLARISSA SMITH; Underexposed: Spectatorship and Pleasure in Men's Underwear Advertising in the Twentieth Century, PAUL JOBLING; The Language of Bodybuilding, JEREMY STRONG; 'Support our Boys': AIDS, Nationalism and the Male Body, JOHN LYNCH; A Genealogical Approach to Idealised Male Body Imagery, ROSALIND GILL, KAREN HENWOOD AND CARL McLEAN; Section II: Moving Men: Masculinity and the Moving Image; Reclaiming the Corporeal: The Black Male Body and the 'Racial' Mountain in Looking for Langston, CHI-YUN SHIN; Exposing Himself: Sweet Sweetback's Body, DOROTHY C. BROADDUS
The W/hole and the Abject, PHIL POWRIE; Queer Masculinity: The Representation of John Paul Pitoc's Body in Trick, NIALL RICHARDSON; Racing Forms and the Exhibition(ist) (Mis)Match: Second Thoughts on the Anxiety of Production, CALVIN THOMAS; Mainstreaming the Money Shot. Reflections on the Representation of Ejaculation in Contemporary American Cinema, GREG TUCK; Homosexual Prototypes: Repetition and the Construction of the Generic in the Iconography of Gay Pornography, JOHN ME