Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The New Men of 1998 -- 1 Alibis of Essence and Enemies Within: At the Well of Obscenity -- 2 Passionate Fictions: Radclyffe Hall's The Well Of Loneliness -- 3 Impressions of the Man: Sacred Countries and the Stone Butch Blues -- 4 Boys Do Cry: Hilary Swank and the Politics of a Pronoun -- 5 Postscript: Notes Towards a Radical (Re)Thinking of the Politics of Gender -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.