| Description |
xiii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Issues in cultural and media studies |
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Issues in cultural and media studies.
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| Contents |
1. What is Masculinity? -- 2. Masculinities and the Imperial Imaginary -- 3. Understanding Masculinities -- 4. Masculinities and the Notion of 'Crisis' -- 5. The Commercialization of Masculinities: From the 'New Man' to the 'New Lad' -- 6. 'Millennium Masculinity' -- 7. Researching Masculinities Today |
| Summary |
"Masculinities and Culture explores how 'masculinities', or ways of 'being a man', are anchored in time and place; the products of socio-historical and cultural circumstances. It examines the emergence of a masculinity fit for Empire in the mid to late nineteenth century and, by way of contrast, the more recent media-driven, commercial New Man and New Lad masculinity. The author considers some of the media discourses shaping masculinities today, and the formation of specific masculinities in specific settings (such as prisons, hospitals and schools) which both define, and in turn are defined by, strongly held conceptions of acceptable masculine behaviour. He concludes by reviewing a range of ways in which masculinities might by researched, from fieldwork and auto/biographical and life history approaches through to semiotics and the use of both film and literary texts |
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This lively text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates concerning masculinities as gendered construction, along with the means of researching and theorizing them."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [168]-184) and index |
| Subject |
Masculinity.
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Masculinity -- Philosophy.
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Masculinity -- Public opinion.
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Masculinity in popular culture.
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Sex role.
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| LC no. |
2001036104 |
| ISBN |
0335199887 paperback |
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0335199895 hardback |
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