Contested Masculinities

Author : Robert Stegmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793602879

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In Contested Masculinities, the author argues for the importance of critical consciousness, and attentiveness to the interplay of the biblical text, context and the long, complex, histories of interpretation that play out in the construction of masculinities. Locating his reading of 1 Thessalonians within the thickly textured setting of a postcolonial, post-apartheid South Africa, the author seeks to recontextualize Paul, providing a nuanced understanding of how Paul’s letters exercise authority over both the church and the academy. The author maintains that attempts to frame either the biblical text or notions of masculinity as singular and universal perpetuate and reinforce binary formulations (church/academy, global north/global south, colonizer/colonized, male/female) and entrench hierarchies of power. The author re-reads 1 Thessalonians, exploring the fissures that come into view when training a postcolonial and gender-critical lens on the biblical text and delivers a refreshing account that is playful and open and porous, especially as a conversational piece for masculinity, ancient and contemporary.

Author : Nalin Jayasena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135922696

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Contested Masculinities by Nalin Jayasena Pdf

Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous masculinity, English masculinity began to share a common idiom with its colonial other. The rhetoric of indigenous masculinity, therefore, both mimicked and departed from its metropolitan counterpart. The study combines an interdisciplinary approach with a focus that is not limited to a single colonial society but ranges from colonial Bengal, Burma, Borneo and finally to colonial Australia.

Author : Nalin Jayasena
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135922689

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Contested Masculinities by Nalin Jayasena Pdf

Exploring how English masculinity - that was so contingent on the relative health of the British imperial project - negotiated the decline and ultimate dissolution of the empire by the middle of the twentieth century, this book argues that by defining itself in relation to indigenous masculinity, English masculinity began to share a common idiom with its colonial other. The rhetoric of indigenous masculinity, therefore, both mimicked and departed from its metropolitan counterpart. The study combines an interdisciplinary approach with a focus that is not limited to a single colonial society but ranges from colonial Bengal, Burma, Borneo and finally to colonial Australia.

Author : Nalin Asoka Jayasena
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Gender identity
ISBN : UCR:31210017663293

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Author : Jim McKay,Michael A. Messner,Donald Sabo
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452263717

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Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport by Jim McKay,Michael A. Messner,Donald Sabo Pdf

In the era of sports dominance in America, athletics have become both a metaphor and reality of American masculinity. Edited by three of the leading scholars at the intersection of masculinity and sports studies, this volume offers a fascinating articulation on the state of athletics in modern society. Each part of the volume examines a significant arena and tackles some of the most deeply rooted issues within the field of sports. From the mechanisms by which masculinity is interwoven into sports to the violence encoded within the field, this book provides an insiders look at the state of gender relations.

Author : Kadri Aavik
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031195075

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Contesting Anthropocentric Masculinities Through Veganism by Kadri Aavik Pdf

This book explores the potential of men’s veganism to contest unsustainable anthropocentric masculinities. Examining what it means to be a vegan man and connections between men, masculinities and veganism, it addresses exploitative human-animal relations, climate change, and social inequalities as urgent and interconnected global issues. Using conceptual insights from critical studies on men and masculinities, ecofeminism, critical animal studies and vegan studies, this book examines the potential of men’s veganism and vegan masculinities to foster more ethical, caring and sustainable ways of relating to nonhuman animals and to contribute towards more egalitarian gender relations. This book is grounded in a qualitative empirical study of the lived experiences of 61 vegan men in Northern Europe. The themes explored include men’s transition to veganism, the emotional and embodied dimensions of men’s veganism, negotiating social and intimate relationships as vegan men, and links between men’s veganism, gender equality and social justice.

Author : Amya Agarwal
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786612403

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Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir by Amya Agarwal Pdf

What is the significance of gender and masculinities in understanding conflict? Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented by the state armed forces and the non-state actors in the Kashmir valley. In addition, the book broadens the understanding of women’s agency through its engagement with the construction, performance, and interplay of masculinities in the conflict. Combining existing elements of both feminist research and critical scholarship on men and masculinities, the book highlights the significance of foregrounding the interplay of men’s identities in conflicts to understand agency in a meaningful way. Through the focus on the simultaneous play of multiple masculinities, the book also questions the oversimplified and monolithic usage of masculinity being associated only with violence in conflicts. The empirical data in the book includes interviews and narratives of multiple stakeholders belonging to diverse vantage points in the Kashmir conflict. Some of these include activists, widows, wives of the disappeared, ex-militants, surrendered militants, participants of the stone-pelting movement, mothers of sons killed in the conflict, women representatives of the village Halqa Panchayats, and army personnel. The book also draws from alternative material in the form of graffiti, folk songs, poetry on graves, and slogans. Through anecdotal reminiscence, the author reflects on the challenges of field research in Kashmir that served as an opportunity for self-contemplation.

Author : R. W. Connell,Raewyn Connell
Publisher : Polity
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Body image
ISBN : 9780745634272

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Masculinities by R. W. Connell,Raewyn Connell Pdf

This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell s ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before. In a substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book s initial publication. He explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of mascunlinity research. Looking to the future, his new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research for understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell s account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell s classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : Mark C. Hopson,Mika'il Petin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793607041

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Reimagining Black Masculinities by Mark C. Hopson,Mika'il Petin Pdf

Reimagining Black Masculinities: Race, Gender, and Public Space addresses how Black masculinities are created, negotiated, and contested in public spaces, focusing on how theory meets praxis when mobilizing for social change. Contributors disentangle complexities of the Black experience and reimagine the radical progressive work required for societal health and wellbeing, forming a mental picture of what the world has the potential to be without excluding current realities for Black boys and men, civic manhood, maleness, and the fluidity of masculinities. These realities are acknowledged and interrogated across private and public contexts, media, education, occupation, and theoretical perspectives. This book encourages readers to reenvision social identity as an ongoing phenomenon, asserting that collective vision informs action and collective action informs possibilities for peace and freedom in the world around us. Scholars of communication, gender studies, and race studies will find this book particularly interesting.

Author : James W. Messerschmidt
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442232945

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Masculinities in the Making by James W. Messerschmidt Pdf

In Masculinities in the Making, James W. Messerschmidt unravels the mysteries surrounding the question of how masculinities are actually “made.” One of the most respected scholars on the subject of masculinities, Messerschmidt brings together three seemingly disparate groups—wimps, genderqueers, and U.S. presidents—to examine what insight each has to offer our understanding of masculinities. The book is unique in its coverage, including a revised structured action theory; an intersectional analysis of sex, gender, and sexuality; and an examination of the differences among masculinities from the local to the global. Messerschmidt provides a fresh, accessible, and provocative argument that significantly advances our knowledge on masculinities.

Author : Jim McKay,Michael A. Messner,Donald Sabo
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 076191272X

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Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport by Jim McKay,Michael A. Messner,Donald Sabo Pdf

The papers in this collection consider how the study of masculinities in sport can be integrated with critical feminist studies, how to deal with the tendency to over-emphasize negative outcomes and the increasing trend to violence in sport.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004456631

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Subverting Masculinity by Anonim Pdf

Contemporary Western societies are currently witness to a “crisis of masculinity” but also to an intriguing diversification of images of masculinity. Once relatively stable regimes of masculine gender representation appear to have been replaced by a wider spectrum of varieties of masculine “lifestyles” taken up by the media and the market, to produce new and immensely flexible forms consumerised gender hegemony. The essays in Subverting Masculinity concentrate on contemporary film, literature and diverse forms of popular culture. The essays show that the subversion of traditional images of masculinity is both a source of gender contestation, but may equally be susceptible to assimilation by new hegemonic configurations of masculinity. Subverting Masculinity maps out the ongoing relevance of gender politics in contemporary culture, but also raises the question of increasingly unclear distinctions between hegemonic and subversive versions of masculinity in contemporary cultural production. Subverting Masculinity will be of interest to students and teachers of gender, cultural, film and literary studies.

Author : Michele Ford,Lenore Lyons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415482233

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Men and Masculinities in Southeast Asia by Michele Ford,Lenore Lyons Pdf

Brings together research on the study of men and masculinities in Southeast Asia. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia, this book examines both dominant constructions of masculinity and the ways in which marginal men engage with these.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781134317073

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International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Harry Brod,Michael Kaufman
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803949041

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Theorizing Masculinities by Harry Brod,Michael Kaufman Pdf

A new field of inquiry and growing interdisciplinary area, men's studies, is just now beginning to develop its own distinctive methodologies and perspectives as demonstrated in the pages of Theorizing Masculinities. This first major compilation of new theoretical work on men begins by presenting ideas borrowed from the disciplines that have fostered the study of masculinities: sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality. The following chapters explore many issues central to the study of men such as power, ethnicity, feminism, and homophobia. The contributors also provide theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men, such as the military, sports, and the men's movement. The contributors to this volume come from disciplines as diverse as sociology, political science, industrial relations, philosophy, education, anthropology, gender studies, and literature. Together, they make this benchmark volume the guiding set of theories on masculinities. Theorizing Masculinities is a comprehensive volume that will appeal to a wide range of students and scholars, especially those interested in gender, sociology, social theory, family studies, counseling, and psychology.