Masculinities Matter

Author : Frances Cleaver
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1842770659

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Masculinities Matter! by Frances Cleaver Pdf

Men appear to be missing from much gender and development policy, but many emerging critiques suggest the need to pay more attention to understanding men and masculinities, and to analyzing the social relationships between men and women. This book considers the case for a focus on men in gender and development, which requires us to reconsider some of the theories and concepts which underlie policies. It includes arguments based on equality and social justice, the specific gendered vulnerabilities of men, the emergence of a crisis of masculinity and the need to include men in development as partners for strategic change.

Author : Calvin Thomas
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Anxiety
ISBN : 025206500X

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Male Matters by Calvin Thomas Pdf

According to Calvin Thomas, maybe he shouldn't. Maybe he should embrace his abjection - his cast-off, humiliated, and discounted status - as a way of renegotiating his identity and of interrupting the historical displacement of that status onto the feminine, or the marginalized other. This embrace of abjection, says Thomas, begins as a confrontation with the issue of the male body. The straight man, unfamiliar and unfriendly and uncomfortable with his body - the excretory, urinary, and seminal aspects of his body in particular - will find that Thomas's Male Matters explores the complicated relationships between masculinity and the male body, revealing the act and production of writing as a bodily, material process that transgresses the boundaries of gender.

Author : Victoria L. Bromley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442605008

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Feminisms Matter by Victoria L. Bromley Pdf

Feminisms Matter confronts the major reasons people offer for not being feminists by breaking apart stereotypes of feminists, unraveling myths about women's history, and challenging assumptions about feminists and feminisms.

Author : Susan Paulson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317548942

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Masculinities and Femininities in Latin America’s Uneven Development by Susan Paulson Pdf

This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework to bring together unusually diverse phenomena. Regional trends demonstrated with quantitative data include the massive incorporation of women into paid work, demographic masculinization of the countryside and feminization of cities, rapidly increasing gaps that favor women over men in education and life expectancy, and extraordinarily high levels of violence against men. Case studies in Mexico, Chile and Bolivia explore changes influenced by gender practices and expectations that involve men in different ways than women; they also highlight dissimilarities and power relations between differently positioned masculine groups. Ethnographic studies of culturally diverse arrangements, together with particular attention to subordinate versus dominant masculinities, complicate the gender binaries that circumscribe so much research and policy. Drawing attention to imbalances and conflicts generated by inappropriate models and uneven developments, the book points to opportunities for experimenting with and adapting the sociocultural institutions that govern relations among humans and between humans and their environment.

Author : Elisabeth M. Cook
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000968392

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Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra 9-10 by Elisabeth M. Cook Pdf

Offering a reading of the intermarriage debate and expulsion of the foreign women in Ezra 9-10, this book engages with the production and performance of masculinities in this biblical text, shifting the focus away from the 'foreign women' to the men who are the primary actors in this work. This approach addresses the diversity of masculinities and the ways in which they are implicated in the production of power relations in the text. It explores the ‘feminized’ masculinity of the peoples-of-the-lands, the unstable masculinity of the golah, Ezra’s performance of penitential masculinity, and the rehabilitation of divine masculinity. The rejection of the marriages and the call for the expulsion of the women and children are addressed as sites on which masculinities and power relations are configured. In doing so, this book sheds light on how women and the traits and performances culturally ascribed to women, femininity and inferior masculinities, are appropriated to produce masculinities and negotiate power relations between men. It posits that the debate in Ezra 9-10 is not, ultimately, about the women themselves, but about bringing the masculinities, bodies and practices of dissenting men under the ‘management’ of those who wield the Torah in the narrative world of the text. Men, Masculinities and Intermarriage in Ezra-9-10 is of interest for scholars and students working on the Book of Ezra specifically, as well as the Hebrew Bible and its world more broadly. It is also a valuable study for those working on masculinities and gender in the biblical world and ancient Near East.

Author : Victor J. Seidler
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848138056

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Young Men and Masculinities by Victor J. Seidler Pdf

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 universalist theories of 'hegemonic masculinities', the book argues that young men often feel caught between prevailing masculinities and their own struggle for self-definition. It explores both how the idea of men as 'the First Sex' has been established within the West and the ways in which men in other cultures and societies affirm their gendered identities. Seidler pioneers new methodologies that involve listening to the silences surrounding male experience as well as to oral testimonies. This enables innovative analysis of the contradictions young men are faced with in both creating their own gendered identities and establishing more equal relationships within a world of intense inequalities.

Author : Josep M. Armengol,Marta Bosch Vilarrubias,Àngels Carabí,Teresa Requena
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351862950

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Masculinities and Literary Studies by Josep M. Armengol,Marta Bosch Vilarrubias,Àngels Carabí,Teresa Requena Pdf

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Rethinking Ethnic Masculinities -- 1 The Negro Goes to War -- 2 Revisiting Masculinities from Whiteness Studies: Herman Melville's "Benito Cereno"--3 Staging Intersectionality: Beyond Gender and Race in the American Theater -- Part II Transnational Masculinities -- 4 Men Around the World: Global and Transnational Masculinities -- 5 Transnational Legacies and Masculinity Politics in The Brief Wondrous Life Of Oscar Wao -- 6 New Arab Masculinities: A Feminist Approach to Arab American Men in Post-9/11 Literature Written by Women -- Part III The Ages of Men -- 7 "Men Who Cry in Their Sleep": Aging Male Hysteria in Martin Amis's London Stories -- 8 Negotiating Childhood and Boyhood Boundaries: Richard Linklater's Boyhood and Toni Morrison's Black Boys -- 9 Fighting the Monsters Inside: Masculinity, Agency, and the Aging Gay Man in Christopher Bram's Father of Frankenstein -- Part IV Masculinities and Affect -- 10 Theorizing the Masculinity of Affect -- 11 Men of War: Affect, Embodiment, and Western Heroic Masculinity in Dispatches and The Hurt Locker -- Part V Eco-masculinities -- 12 The "Wild, Wild World": Masculinity and the Environment in the American Literary Imagination -- 13 Green Intersections: Caring Masculinities and the Environmental Crisis -- Part VI Masculinities and/in Capitalism -- 14 Masculinities and Financial Capitalism -- 15 Capitalism, Slavery, and Mask-ulinities: New Directions -- 16 "To Love What Death Doesn't Touch": Questioning Capitalist Masculinity in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch -- Part VII Epilogue Masculinity Studies: New Directions -- Index

Author : Jeffrey Boakye,Darren Chetty
Publisher : Wayland
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526308150

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What Is Masculinity? Why Does It Matter? and Other Big Questions by Jeffrey Boakye,Darren Chetty Pdf

Author : Nancy E. Dowd
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 0814720943

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The Man Question by Nancy E. Dowd Pdf

Among the many important tools feminist legal theorists have given scholars is that of anti-essentialism: all women are not created equal, and privilege varies greatly by circumstances,particularly that of race and class. Yet at the same time, feminist legal theory tends to view men through an essentialist lens, in which men are created equal. The study of masculinities, inspired by feminist theory to explore the construction of manhood and masculinity, questions the real circumstances of men, not in order to deny men’s privilege but to explore in particular how privilege is constructed, and what price is paid for it. In this groundbreaking work, feminist legal theorist Nancy E. Dowd exhorts readers to apply the anti-essentialist model—so dominant in feminist jurisprudence—to the study of masculinities. She demonstrates how men’s treatment by the law and society in general varies by race, economic position, sexuality, and other factors. She applies these insights to both boys and men, examining how masculinities analysis exposes both privilege and subordination. She examines men’s experienceof fatherhood and sexual abuse, and boys’ experience in the contexts of education and juvenile justice. Ultimately, Dowd calls for a more inclusive feminist theory, which, by acknowledging the study of masculinities, can broaden our understanding of privilege and subordination.

Author : Joseph Gelfer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781461469315

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Masculinities in a Global Era by Joseph Gelfer Pdf

​​Masculinities in a Global Era extends the conversation of masculinity studies by analyzing global masculinities from a psychological perspective. Canvassing a broad array of psychological aspects such as the construction of identity, the negotiation of power, coping with trauma, and sexuality, this volume shows how masculinities are experienced, performed and embodied in geographically dispersed communities. Importantly, Masculinities in a Global Era fulfills a much-needed but elusive need within the study of masculinities: a forum in which the often polarized approaches of pro-feminists and men’s rights advocates can begin to move beyond their entrenched historical positions towards a more fruitful and nuanced future.​

Author : Michael S. Kimmel,Jeff Hearn,Raewyn Connell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0761923691

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Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities by Michael S. Kimmel,Jeff Hearn,Raewyn Connell Pdf

The handbook provides a broad view of masculinities primarily across the social sciences, but including important debates in areas of the humanities & natural sciences.

Author : J. Hearn,K. Pringle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230626447

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European Perspectives on Men and Masculinities by J. Hearn,K. Pringle Pdf

This book compares the state of knowledge on men and masculinities in 14 countries across Europe, examining the effects of social change, Europeanization, globalization and new post-socialist configurations of Europe for men. Special attention is given to home and work, social exclusion, violence, and health.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031491672

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The Palgrave Handbook of African Men and Masculinities by Ezra Chitando Pdf

Author : Russell Luyt,Kathleen Starck
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030351625

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Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents by Russell Luyt,Kathleen Starck Pdf

This book explores how political institutions can challenge dominant and normative masculinities, guiding thinking instead toward a transformation of gendered power structures and general equality. Representing a range of relevant areas, the expert chapter authors provide various methodological and theoretical approaches applied to shifting gender meanings in cultural, national, and social contexts. Authors also represent a variety of cultures, contributing to the multi-perspective debate about how best to achieve gender equality in the real world. Among the topics discussed: Reimagining masculinities, their everyday practice and practical interventions Towards a feminist theory of male rape Political implications of challenging men’s everyday practices through domestic violence primary prevention work Men as allies: a case study of White Ribbon Australia Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents provides valuable insight into strategies for re-imagining male-dominated power structures and promoting gender equality.

Author : Amanda Chisholm,Joanna Tidy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781351009867

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Masculinities at the Margins by Amanda Chisholm,Joanna Tidy Pdf

Across a rich terrain of empirical and theoretical trajectories, the concept of military masculinity (now understood in its plural as military masculinities) has been a significant conceptual tool in both feminist international relations (IR) and in critical men and masculinities studies scholarship. The concept has helped us to unpack the relationships between gender, war, and militarism, including how military standards function in the production of wider normative, hegemonic manliness. As such, military masculinities has been a rewarding tool for many scholars who take a critical approach to the study of war and the military. This edited volume advances an emerging curiosity within accounts of military masculinities. This curiosity concerns the silences within, and disruptions to, our well-established and perhaps-too-comfortable understandings of, and empirical focal points for, military masculinities, gender, and war. The contributors to this volume trouble the ease with which we might be tempted to synonymize militaries, war, and a neat, ‘hegemonic’ masculinity. Taking the disruptions, the asides, and the silences seriously challenges the common wisdoms of military masculinities, gender, and war in productive and necessary ways. Doing so necessitates a reorientation of where, to whom, and for what we look to understand the operation of gendered military power. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Critical Military Studies.