Debating Modern Masculinities

Change, Continuity, Crisis?
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-48403-4
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, with its chapters drawing on original research to present a more nuanced reality, whilst also developing a critical dialogue with one another.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Masculinities in Transition: Change, Continuity, Crisis?; Steven Roberts 2. The Limits of Masculinity: Boys, Taste and Cultural Consumption; Victoria Cann 3. Degrees of Masculinity: Working and Middle Class Undergraduate Students' Constructions of Masculine Identities; Nicola Ingram and Richard Waller 4. 'We're Different to Everyone Else': Contradictory Working-Class Masculinities in Contemporary Britain; Michael R.M Ward 5. Oppression, Acceptance or Civil Indifference? Middle-aged Gay Men's Accounts of 'Heterospaces'; Paul Simpson 6. Brothers of Metal! Heavy Metal Masculinities, Moshpit Practices and Homosociality; Gabby Riches 7. Straight Guys do Wear Make-up: Contemporary Masculinities and Investment in Appearance; Brendan Gough, Matthew Hall, Sarah Seymour-Smith 8. Theorizing Masculinities in Contemporary Britain; Eric Anderson and Mark McCormack

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Anderson, University of Winchester, UK Victoria Cann, University of East Anglia, UK Brendan Gough, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Matthew Hall, Nottingham Trent University, UK Nicola Ingram, University of Bath, UK Mark McCormack, Durham University, UK Gabby Riches, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Steven Roberts, University of Kent, UK Sarah Seymour-Smith, Nottingham Trent University, UK Paul Simpson, University of Manchester, UK Richard Waller, University of the West of England, UK Michael R.M Ward, Open University, UK.