Representing Men

Name: Representing Men
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ISBN: 9780340808337

ISBN-10: 0340808330

ISBN-13: 9780340808337

Edition: 2003

Authors: Kenneth MacKinnon

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Until quite recently, the term ~gender studies' seemed to promise a species of women's studies. The danger in this is that masculinity could appear to be a lot less rewarding as an object of inquiry, as if it were somehow purely a product of nature or biology - almost as though, while women to some extent learned gender through social experience, men were simply the way they were, unalterable. Representing Men takes its cue from the greater visibility of men's studies in the 1990s. It interests itself in the way that mass media do not so much ~reflect' masculinity in society as ~teach' it, by creating or reinforcing its images. The ideas of many books and articles of particularly the last…

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 6/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.32" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



Introduction


Masculinity


Men's studies and the 'men's movement'


Representation and spectatorship


Masculinity in movies


Masculinity on television


Masculinity in advertising


Masculinity in mediated sport


In conclusion