Debating modern masculinities : change, continuity, crisis?
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Debating modern masculinities : change, continuity, crisis?
（Palgrave pivot）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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Description
Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, with its chapters drawing on original research to present a more nuanced reality, whilst also developing a critical dialogue with one another.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: Masculinities in Transition: Change, Continuity, Crisis?
- Steven Roberts 2. The Limits of Masculinity: Boys, Taste and Cultural Consumption
- Victoria Cann 3. Degrees of Masculinity: Working and Middle Class Undergraduate Students' Constructions of Masculine Identities
- Nicola Ingram and Richard Waller 4. 'We're Different to Everyone Else': Contradictory Working-Class Masculinities in Contemporary Britain
- Michael R.M Ward 5. Oppression, Acceptance or Civil Indifference? Middle-aged Gay Men's Accounts of 'Heterospaces'
- Paul Simpson 6. Brothers of Metal! Heavy Metal Masculinities, Moshpit Practices and Homosociality
- Gabby Riches 7. Straight Guys do Wear Make-up: Contemporary Masculinities and Investment in Appearance
- Brendan Gough, Matthew Hall, Sarah Seymour-Smith 8. Theorizing Masculinities in Contemporary Britain
- Eric Anderson and Mark McCormack
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