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The Men and the Boys

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

13.10.2000

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

272

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/14/1,6 cm

Gewicht

463 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7456-2632-1

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

13.10.2000

Verlag

Wiley

Seitenzahl

272

Maße (L/B/H)

21,6/14/1,6 cm

Gewicht

463 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-7456-2632-1

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: The Men and the Boys
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  • PART 1 EXAMINING MASCULINITIES 1

    1 Debates about men, new research on masculinities 3

    Issues about men and boys 3

    The new social research on masculinity 6

    Key conclusions of recent research 9

    2 New directions in theory and research 15

    Current debate: Concepts of gender and approaches to masculinity 16

    The gender relations approach 23

    Conceptualizing masculinities 29

    Agenda for research 32

    PART 2 GLOBALIZATION 37

    3 Masculinities and globalization 39

    The world gender order 40

    The repositioning of men and the remaking of masculinities 43

    Globalizing masculinities 46

    Masculinity politics on a world scale 52

    4 Globalization and men's bodies 57

    Understanding men's bodies 57

    Imperialism and men's bodies 60

    Contemporary globalization and men's bodies 62

    Implications for gender reform 65

    PART 3 BODIES AND DESIRES 67

    5 An iron man 69

    Being a champion 70

    Soft path, hard goal 74

    The body and the self 76

    Wanting to win: The ideology of competitive sport 80

    Reflections 83

    6 'I threw it like a girl': Some difficulties with male bodies 86

    Looking at jelly: Adam Singer 87

    Burning up the body: Tip Southern 94

    Reflections 99

    7 Man to man: Homosexual desire and practice among working-class men (written with M.D. Davis and G.W. Dowsett) 102

    The working-class setting 104

    The social framework of male-to-male sex 108

    Sexual practice 114

    Desire and identity 118

    The HIV/AIDS epidemic 122

    Reflections 126

    PART 4 PRACTICALITIES 129

    8 Cool guys, swots and wimps 131

    Getting into trouble 133

    Knowing where you stand 136

    Over the hump 139

    Dry sciences 141

    Reading feminism 143

    Reflections 145

    9 Teaching the boys 148

    Schools and gender 150

    Schools as agents in the making of masculinities 155

    Pupils as agents, school as setting 161

    Educational strategies in work with boys 164

    The process of change 172

    10 Men's health 177

    Research evidence on men's health 178

    Sex differences in health 179

    The health of specific groups of men 182

    How some masculinizing practices damage bodies 184

    Attempts to make men's bodies healthy 188

    The 'cradle to grave' health disadvantage of men 192

    Reflections 194

    PART 5 CHANGING MASCULINITIES 197

    11 The politics of change in masculinity 199

    The historical moment 201

    Men's interests 202

    Purposes 205

    A men's movement? 208

    12 Arms and the man: The question of peace 212

    Why war? 212

    The problem of men and violence 213

    Implications of masculinity research 216

    Global patterns 220

    Peace strategies and masculinities 223

    Acknowledgments and sources 227

    References 231

    Index 247