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Masculinities

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ISBN-10: 0520246985

ISBN-13: 9780520246980

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: R. W. Connell

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This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's groundbreaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. In its first edition,Masculinitiesprovided one of the most important voices in feminist scholarship by men. Connell argued that there is no such thing as a single concept of masculinity, but, rather, that many different masculinities exist, each associated with different positions of power. In a world in which gender order continues to extend privilege to men over women, but that also raises difficult issues for men and boys, Connell's account is more pertinent than ever. In the new edition's substantial new introduction and conclusion,…    
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 349
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

R. W. Connell is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney in Australia. He is the author of The Men and the Boys (California, 2001) among other books on gender.

Acknowledgements
Introduction to the second edition
Knowledge and its Problems
The Science of Masculinity
Men's Bodies
The Social Organization of Masculinity
Four Studies of the Dynamics of Masculinity:Introduction
Live Fast and Die Young
A Whole New World
A Very Straight Gay
Men of Reason
History and Politics
The History of Masculinity
Masculinity Politics
Practice and Utopia
Afterword: The Contemporary Politics of Masculinity
References and bibliography
Index