McDowell Redundant Masculinities?

Employment Change and White Working Class Youth
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-77535-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Antipode Book Series

Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between theso-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in thelabour market through the lives of young working class men.
* Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to beheard.
* Looks at how the labour market is changing.
* Emphasises the social construction of gender and racialidentities.
* Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDowell, Linda

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates.
List of Tables.
Preface.
1. Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class.
2. The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and ChangingClass and Gender Identities.
3. The Contemporary Crisis Of Masculinity: It's Hard To Be(Come)A Man or The Problem of/for Boys.
4. Living on The Edge: Marginal Lives In Cambridge andSheffield.
5. Leaving School: Pathways To Employment and FurtherEducation.
6. Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and ReluctantLearners.
7. Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, TheExcluded and Escape Attempts.
8. Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities.
9. Conclusions: What Is To Be Done About Boys?
Postscript.
Appendix 1: Research Methodology.
Appendix 2: The Participants.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Linda McDowell is Professor of Geography at University College, London. Her previous publications include Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City (Blackwells, 1997) and Gender, Identity and Place (1999).