Young men and masculinities : global cultures and intimate lives / Victor J. Seidler.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.

Introduction: young men and masculinities -- Masculinities, histories, cultures and religions -- Listening, speaking and learning -- Questioning Adam : men, power and love -- Rethinking fatherhood -- Masculinities, bodies and emotional life -- Bodies, desires, pleasures and love -- Authority, identities, bodies and intimacy -- Bodies, ethics, fears and desires -- Friends, risks and transgressions -- Risks, fears, race and belongings -- Risk, self-harm, abuse and control -- Young men, bodies, sexualities and health -- Young men's sexual and reproductive health -- Young men, heroes, violence and conflict.

In this book Victor J Seidler, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about masculinities, turns his attention to the lives of young men and their understandings of themselves as gendered beings. By contextualizing their experiences and subjectivities within a rapidly globalizing world, Seidler pays particular attention to the impact of the global media. How does the mass circulation of images of men's bodies, desires and sexualities affect their self-perception and behaviours, and how are these images framed within particular histories, cultures and traditions? Questioning univ.

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