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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... femininity scales. A vague concept of 'the male role' or 'men's role' persists in muchrecent talk and writing, butmeans little more thanstereotypes or norms oreven just sex differences. In the1980s athirdapproach to the genderof men ...
... femininity scales. A vague concept of 'the male role' or 'men's role' persists in muchrecent talk and writing, butmeans little more thanstereotypes or norms oreven just sex differences. In the1980s athirdapproach to the genderof men ...
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... femininity' we would be unable to talk about the questionsof gender ambiguity that have been so important inrecent culturalstudies, or about the contradictions inpersonality that aresoimportant inpsychoanalysis. If we giveup such terms ...
... femininity' we would be unable to talk about the questionsof gender ambiguity that have been so important inrecent culturalstudies, or about the contradictions inpersonality that aresoimportant inpsychoanalysis. If we giveup such terms ...
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... femininity and masculinity,and it offers very limited strategies of change. Even in a field like education, role theory offered noprotection against thebacklash that emerged in the 1990s, whichproposed an expansionof special ...
... femininity and masculinity,and it offers very limited strategies of change. Even in a field like education, role theory offered noprotection against thebacklash that emerged in the 1990s, whichproposed an expansionof special ...
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... femininity, wimpishness or being homosexual. We cannot get far withsuch questions without asking questions about boys' and men's interests in maintaininga particular status quo in gender arrangements and a particular positionwithin them ...
... femininity, wimpishness or being homosexual. We cannot get far withsuch questions without asking questions about boys' and men's interests in maintaininga particular status quo in gender arrangements and a particular positionwithin them ...
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... femininity arenotsimple opposites, arenot eveninitially constituted as a gender opposition—asinrole theory, categoricalism and most discursive accounts ofgender. Rather, gender emerges asan from the specific course of development of the ...
... femininity arenotsimple opposites, arenot eveninitially constituted as a gender opposition—asinrole theory, categoricalism and most discursive accounts ofgender. Rather, gender emerges asan from the specific course of development of the ...
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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