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Masculinities in transition

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Genders and sexualities in the social sciencesPublication details: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011Description: ix,221p. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780230201590
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.31 22 RO-M
LOC classification:
  • BF692.5 .R59 2011
Other classification:
  • SOC018000 | SOC032000 | SOC026000 | SOC002000
Contents:
Meeting men on the move -- Transitions: Masculinities and transition -- Home and work in historical context -- Continuities, conflicts and contradictions -- Masculinities in prospect: The life course and chronology -- Belonging: scrutiny, irony and performance -- Embodiment: Masculinity and the body -- 'I'm a suit man': embodying occupational masculinities -- The sociable body -- The performing body -- Embodying mundane and life course transitions -- Emotionality, masculinity and gender: Masculinity and emotionality -- Emotional labour revisited -- Sharing emotion: men's experience of vulnerability -- Men and friendship -- Emotionality and the research process -- Undoing gender/gender undone.
Summary: "Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity"--
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-217) and index.

Meeting men on the move -- Transitions: Masculinities and transition -- Home and work in historical context -- Continuities, conflicts and contradictions -- Masculinities in prospect: The life course and chronology -- Belonging: scrutiny, irony and performance -- Embodiment: Masculinity and the body -- 'I'm a suit man': embodying occupational masculinities -- The sociable body -- The performing body -- Embodying mundane and life course transitions -- Emotionality, masculinity and gender: Masculinity and emotionality -- Emotional labour revisited -- Sharing emotion: men's experience of vulnerability -- Men and friendship -- Emotionality and the research process -- Undoing gender/gender undone.

"Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity"--

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