The Men and the BoysIn recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men’s gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted disease. Teachers are increasingly preoccupied with the poor educational performance of boys, and criminologists have begun to explore why men and boys continue to dominate the crime statistics. In this timely new volume, one of the world’s leading authorities on masculinity helps us to understand these developments, and make sense of the multiplying issues about men and boys. Five years on from the publication of the seminal study Masculinities, this book reflects on the growing social scientific research in this area. Connell assesses its strengths and weaknesses and explores its implications for contemporary problems from boys’ education and men’s health to international peacemaking. Written in a lively and accessible way, this book will be essential reading for all students of sociology, politics and gender studies, as well as anyone interested in the future of gender relations. |
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... construction of masculinity in particular timesand places. The locales include: ahighland community in Papua New Guinea (Herdt 1981); aprivateschoolin interwar England (Heward 1988); Hollywood filmsafterthe Vietnamwar (Jeffords 1989); ...
... construction of masculinity in particular timesand places. The locales include: ahighland community in Papua New Guinea (Herdt 1981); aprivateschoolin interwar England (Heward 1988); Hollywood filmsafterthe Vietnamwar (Jeffords 1989); ...
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... masculinities and define relationships between them. Barrett's (1996) illuminating studyof the 'organizational construction' of hegemonic masculinity intheUSNavy shows different forms in the differentsubbranches ofthe one military ...
... masculinities and define relationships between them. Barrett's (1996) illuminating studyof the 'organizational construction' of hegemonic masculinity intheUSNavy shows different forms in the differentsubbranches ofthe one military ...
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... construction of masculinities inadultpeer groups. The friendshipgroups notonly draw lines tofendoff women's intrusion intomasculine social space, but draw in a whole technologyaspartofthe definition of masculinity. Internal. complexity.
... construction of masculinities inadultpeer groups. The friendshipgroups notonly draw lines tofendoff women's intrusion intomasculine social space, but draw in a whole technologyaspartofthe definition of masculinity. Internal. complexity.
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Raewyn Connell. much of the discussion of masculinity smuggles in a kind of gender essentialism, while conversely those ... construction ofgender canalso point in directions otherthan the Foucauldianfocus on thesubjectionof bodies. Inthe ...
Raewyn Connell. much of the discussion of masculinity smuggles in a kind of gender essentialism, while conversely those ... construction ofgender canalso point in directions otherthan the Foucauldianfocus on thesubjectionof bodies. Inthe ...
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... construction of meaning, the making of ideology. But ofall materialist analyses of men and masculinity, the most original and farreaching is the workof Holter (1995, 1997), unfortunately still little knownoutside Scandinavia. Holter ...
... construction of meaning, the making of ideology. But ofall materialist analyses of men and masculinity, the most original and farreaching is the workof Holter (1995, 1997), unfortunately still little knownoutside Scandinavia. Holter ...
Contents
Masculinities and globalization | |
Globalization and mens bodies | |
Homosexual desire and practice among working | |
Cool guys swots and wimps | |
Mens health Research evidence on mens health | |
The politics of change in masculinity | |
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Acknowledgments and sources | |
Index | |
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