This is an impressive, informative handbook on masculinity research with an interdisciplinary and international perspective. The editors are a well-known and respected team at the TechnicalUniversity of Dresden, Germany, active in the interdisciplinary GenderConceptGroup in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The main editor Stefan Horlacher who holds a professorship (Lehrstuhl) in English Literature at the TU is a distinguished, prolific scholar who has pioneered masculinity studies in Germany with, among other publications, Conceptions of Masculinity in Thomas Hardy and D.H. Lawrence (in German, 2006) and the edited volumes Constructions of Masculinity in British Literature (Palgrave 2011) and Taboo and Transgressions in British Literature (Palgrave, 2010). It is much to the credit of Stefan Horlacher that this handbook on masculinity is a readable, accessible, and reliable research tool to which some thirty German scholars - all gender specialists in their respective fields – contributed (all articles are in German).