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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... emotion anddeny vulnerability. To emphasize thatmendohave emotional troubles, that masculine stereotypescan bedamaging, thatmensuffer fromisolation, andthat men toocan hold hands and cry—this isnotabad thing. Writers like Keen ...
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... emotional relationships from those that can be seen in economic relationships. Accordingly ithas become familiar to identify multiple structures. In aprevious book (Connell 1987) I suggested that the analysisofgender hadto recognizeat ...
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... (emotional relations) Desire isso oftenseenas natural that it is commonly excluded from social theory. Emotion is, however, increasingly seenas an important topic for social theory (Barbalet1998). When weconsider desirein Freudian terms ...
... (emotional relations) Desire isso oftenseenas natural that it is commonly excluded from social theory. Emotion is, however, increasingly seenas an important topic for social theory (Barbalet1998). When weconsider desirein Freudian terms ...
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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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