Plural Masculinities

Author : Sofia Aboim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317079620

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Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, pathways through which men are remaking their identities. Proceeding from the premise that it is impossible to fully understand masculinity without considering its connection with family change and women's change, it places men and masculinities within the realm of family life, examining men's practices and discourses in their relationships with women and their changing femininities. Combining an empirical study based in Portugal with cross-national analyses of attitudes towards ideal gender arrangements in Europe and the USA, this book examines the various ways in which men come to define their identities and will appeal to those working in the fields of masculinities, gender studies and the sociology of the family.

Author : Sofia Aboim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317079637

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Plural Masculinities by Sofia Aboim Pdf

Plural Masculinities offers a contemporary portrait of the plural dynamics and forms of masculinity, emphasizing the multiple, even contradictory, pathways through which men are remaking their identities. Proceeding from the premise that it is impossible to fully understand masculinity without considering its connection with family change and women's change, it places men and masculinities within the realm of family life, examining men's practices and discourses in their relationships with women and their changing femininities. Combining an empirical study based in Portugal with cross-national analyses of attitudes towards ideal gender arrangements in Europe and the USA, this book examines the various ways in which men come to define their identities and will appeal to those working in the fields of masculinities, gender studies and the sociology of the family.

Author : R. W. Connell,Raewyn Connell
Publisher : Polity
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745634265

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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 : Matthias Eck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000054538

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Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature by Matthias Eck Pdf

Masculinities in Austrian Contemporary Literature: Strategic Evasion shows the important contribution that literature can make to the understanding of masculinities, by offering insights into the mental structures of hegemonic masculinity. It argues that while there is evidence of frustrating hegemonic masculinities, contemporary Austrian literature offers few positive images of alternative masculinity. The texts simultaneously criticize and present fantasies of hegemonic masculinity and as such provide a space for ambiguity and evasion. While providing readers with an in-depth study of the works of the authors Daniel Kehlmann, Doron Rabinovici and Arno Geiger, Matthias Eck elaborates the concept of strategic evasion. In order to bridge the gap between the ideal of masculinity and reality the male characters adopt two strategies of evasion: evasion to hide a softer and gentler side, and evasion into a world of fantasy where they pretend to live up to the ideal of hegemonic masculinity.

Author : Bruce Reis,Robert Grossmark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135468460

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Heterosexual Masculinities by Bruce Reis,Robert Grossmark Pdf

In recent years there have been substantial changes in approaches to how genders are made and what functions genders fulfill. Most of the scholarly focus in this area has been in the areas of feminist, gay, and lesbian studies, and heterosexual masculinity - which tended to be defined by lack and absence - has not received the critical and scholarly attention these other areas have received. Heterosexual Masculinities rethinks a psychoanalytic tradition that has long thought of masculinity as a sort of brittle defense against femininity, softness, and emotionality. Reflecting current trends in psychoanalytic thinking, this book seeks to understand heterosexual masculinity as fluid, multiple, and emergent. The contributors to this insightful volume take new perspectives on relations between men, men’s positions as fathers in relation to their sons and daughters, the clinical encounter with heterosexual men, the social contexts of masculinity, and the multiplicity of heterosexual masculine subjectivities. What to a previous generation would have appeared as pathological or defensive, we now encounter as forms of masculine subjectivity that include wishes for intimacy, receptivity, and surrender, alongside ambition and the pleasures of "phallic narcissism."

Author : Kadri Aavik,Clarice Bland,Josephine Hoegaerts,Janne Tuomas Vilhelm Salminen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110647860

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Men, Masculinities and the Modern Career by Kadri Aavik,Clarice Bland,Josephine Hoegaerts,Janne Tuomas Vilhelm Salminen Pdf

This book focuses on the multiple and diverse masculinities ‘at work’. Spanning both historical approaches to the rise of ‘profession’ as a marker of masculinity, and critical approaches to the current structures of management, employment and workplace hierarchy, the book questions what role masculinity plays in cultural understandings, affective experiences and mediatised representations of a professional ‘career’.

Author : Mangesh Kulkarni,Rimjhim Jain (Associate Editor)
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429752087

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Global Masculinities by Mangesh Kulkarni,Rimjhim Jain (Associate Editor) Pdf

What does it mean to be male in today’s world? This volume interrogates the myriad practices and myth-making that underlie dominant and subordinate constructions of masculinities around the world. Challenging the patriarchal bias that restricts alternative understanding of masculinities, this volume documents and shares evidence, insights and direction on how men and boys can creatively contribute to gender equality in the twenty-first century. The book: highlights the many lives of men and their interactions with socioeconomic and political processes, including the family, fatherhood, migration, development and violence; critiques hegemonic masculinities, and grapples with effective practices that engage men in the empowerment of women; explores how cultures of masculinity can be transformed to promote social justice, conflict-resolution and peace-building within and across nations The book will be indispensable to researchers interested in critical masculinity studies, women’s studies, sociology, social anthropology, law, public policy, political science and international relations. It will also be of great relevance to government officials, NGO activists, and other practitioners concerned with gender, health and development issues.

Author : Professor Martha Albertson Fineman
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781472415127

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Exploring Masculinities by Professor Martha Albertson Fineman Pdf

Written by leading experts in the area, this volume investigates the ways in which emerging masculinities theory in law could inform feminist legal theory in particular and law in general. As many of the chapters in this collection illustrate, law is constantly in a dynamic interaction with masculinities: it has both influenced existing masculinities and has been influenced by those masculinities. The contributions focus feminist and critical theoretical attention on masculinities and consider the implications of masculinities theory for law and legal theory.

Author : Martha Albertson Fineman,Michael Thomson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317137320

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Exploring Masculinities by Martha Albertson Fineman,Michael Thomson Pdf

While masculinities theory has had much to say on relationships of subordination, few feminist legal scholars have examined the implications of masculinities theory for feminist legal theory. This volume investigates the ways in which emerging masculinities theory in law could inform feminist legal theory in particular and law in general. As many of the chapters in this collection illustrate, law is constantly in a dynamic interaction with masculinities: it has both influenced existing masculinities and has been influenced by those masculinities. The contributions focus feminist and critical theoretical attention on masculinities and consider the implications of masculinities theory for law and legal theory. The book sets out the theoretical trajectory of masculinities studies as a field and its application in law and uses insights from a masculinities approach to study socio-political construction of gender identities in specific settings. It also explores how understanding historical construction of gender identities can inform more effective public policy and activism. Written by leading experts in the area, the book poses important questions about the development of the relationship between feminisms and masculinities theory and will be essential reading for those working in law and gender and related areas.

Author : Jesper Andreasson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031530395

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Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health, and Ageing Masculinities by Jesper Andreasson Pdf

Author : Andrea Waling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351801621

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White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia by Andrea Waling Pdf

Spanning the disciplines of sociology, history, media and cultural studies, and popular culture, this book offers a historical exploration of Australian masculine tropes and an examination of contemporary representations of masculinity in the media. With attention to a range of thematic issues, including race, gender, sexuality, mythmaking, media representation, class, and nationality, it draws on new qualitative research and interview material to investigate the ways in which everyday Australian men take up or reject such ideas. White Masculinity in Contemporary Australia thus explores the contradictory resistance to and adoration of ideals of masculinity, forms of Othering used to differentiate the practice of "good" masculinity from that of "bad" masculinity, the relationship between heterosexuality, masculinity and Australian sporting culture as central to ideals of masculinity, and the existence of differing pressures to be masculine. As such it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in gender and sexuality, Australian studies, and contemporary popular culture.

Author : Stefan Horlacher,Kevin Floyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317077107

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Post-World War II Masculinities in British and American Literature and Culture by Stefan Horlacher,Kevin Floyd Pdf

Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the construction of masculinity in each country. The contributors take up issues related to how certain kinds of nationally specific masculine identifications are produced, how these change over time, and how literature and other forms of cultural representation eventually question and deconstruct their own myths of masculinity. Focusing on the period from the end of World War II to the 1980s, the essays each take up a topic with particular cultural and historical resonance, whether it is hypermasculinity in early cold war films; the articulation of male anxieties in plays by Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Sam Shepard; the evolution of photographic depictions of masculinity from the 1960s to the 1980s; or the representations of masculinity in the fiction of American and British writers such as Patricia Highsmith, Richard Yates, John Braine, Martin Amis, Evan S. Connell, James Dickey, John Berger, Philip Roth, Frank Chin, and Maxine Hong Kingston. The editors and contributors make a case for the importance of understanding the larger context for the emergence of more pluralistic, culturally differentiated and ultimately transnational masculinities, arguing that it is possible to conceptualize and emphasize difference and commonality simultaneously.

Author : Ezra Chitando
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031491672

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

Author : Chris Haywood,Mairtin Mac an Ghaill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136730801

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Education and Masculinities by Chris Haywood,Mairtin Mac an Ghaill Pdf

Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a crisis of masculinity is played out, and schools have become a focus for practical attempts to reconcile social and cultural transformations through the recalibration of teaching and learning, increasing male teachers and masculinising the content of subjects. Education and Masculinities argues that we are experiencing a shift from the establishment of the social constitution of gender associated with modernity politics, to the gendering of society that has an intensified resonance among men and women in a global-based late modernity. The book explores the main social and cultural approaches to education and masculinities within the broader context of sex and gender relations, considering the masculinity question alongside local and global changes in society, and bringing a fresh evaluation of key issues. Included in the book: -how the suggestion of ‘academically successful girls’ and ‘failing boys’ plays out in relation to issues of inequality across class and ethnicity -a current empirical analyses of gender inequality across schools, higher education and the labour market -representation, identity and cultural difference with reference to male and female social experiences and cultural meanings -forms of power connected to social divisions and cultural differences. Education and Masculinities provides a critical yet constructive diagnosis of gender relations across educational sites, exploring both academic accounts and alternative global responses that illustrate the limits of Western models and sensibilities.This accessible book will be valuable reading for students following courses in education, sociology, gender studies, and other social sciences and humanities courses.

Author : Edward H. Thompson,, Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442278561

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Men, Masculinities, and Aging by Edward H. Thompson,, Jr. Pdf

Men, Masculinities, and Aging explores the intersections of generations, class, geographies, and masculinities. It offers a fresh perspective on men’s experiences with bodily aging, growing older within ageist societies, and navigating the virtual absence of cultural guidelines for being an old man.