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Men and Masculinities Key Themes and New Directions

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ISBN-10: 0745624677

ISBN-13: 9780745624679

Edition: 2002

Authors: Stephen M. Whitehead

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Men and Masculinities is one of the most comprehensive texts ever published on the sociology of masculinity. Wide-ranging and accessible, it considers all the key themes, concepts and writings informing this increasingly important area of study. Starting with discussion of the nature/nurture debate, Freudian and Jungian perspectives, and first-wave writings on men and masculinity, Men and Masculinities explores the work of key feminist and profeminist theorists such as Bob Connell, Jeff Hearn, Michael Kimmel, Michael Messner, Peter Nardi and Lynne Segal. In charting trends and new directions in the critical study of men, the book highlights the growing influence of postmodern and…    
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Book details

List price: $36.25
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 4/26/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Masculinity - Illusion or Reality?
Men's Nature, Men's History
Natural Men?
Masculinities in History
Functionalism and the Male Sex Role
Gender and Functionalism
Perspectives on Sex/Gender Roles
Psychoanalytical Perspectives
Freud
Jung
From 1st to 2nd Wave (Pro)Feminism
Multiplicity, Materiality - and Illusion
Multiple Masculinities
The Materiality of Men's Violences
Material Actualities - a global perspective
Conclusion
The Personal and the Political: Men and Feminism
A Crisis of Masculinity or a Moral Panic?
A Discourse of Crisis
The Crisis Discourse in Politics and Public Policy
The Male Crisis in Perspective
Men as a Political Category
The Discursive Connection
Men's Responses to Feminism
Marking Differences
Political Polarisations
Black and Latino Men, Black and Latino Masculinities
Gay Male Liberation and Queer Theory
Concluding on Changing Men (and Women)
Power and Resistance
Structural Models of Gender Power
Juridico-Discursive Theories
Patriarchy
Hegemonic Masculinity
Gender Order
Masculinism
Power as Discursive
Bringing Back the Resisting Subject
A Foucauldian Analysis
The Discursive Subject of Power
Summary
Public Men
He's Leaving Home: The heroic male project
Myths and Icons
An Heroic Male Project - building empires
Work, Management and the Professional
Men at Work
Men as Managers
Masculinity and Professionalism
Time to Play
Gendered Time
Gendered Leisure..Summary
Private Men
The Private 'I'
Fathers and Families
Friendships and Relationships
Men's Relationships
Men's Friendships
Pure Relationships
Sexualities
Trust, Intimacy and Emotion
Trust
Intimacy
Emotions and Feelings
Endings and Openings
Marking Male Bodies
Male Bodies
Male Bodies in Process
Throwing Like a Boy
Materialising Male Bodies
Gazing at the Male Body
Race Man
A Gay Body of Men
Ageing Male Bodies
Summary
Desires of The Masculine Subject
The Masculine Subject
Masculine Ontology
Desire To Be (a man)
Implications and Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index