| Description |
vi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Sociological review monographs |
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Sociological review monograph.
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| Contents |
Masculinity and men's lifestyle magazines / Bethan Benwell -- Genealogies of masculinity / Rosalind Gill -- Power and the production of subjects: a genealogy of the new man and the new lad / Rosalind Gill -- A pedigree of the consuming male: masculinity, consumption and the American 'leisure class' / Bill Osgerby -- Cultures of production and consumption / Ben Crewe -- Class, masculinity and editorial identity in the reformation of the UK men's press / Ben Crewe -- Reading men's lifestyle magazines: cultural power and the information society / Nick Stevenson, Peter Jackson and Kate Brooks -- Sex, booze and fags: masculinity, style and men's magazines / Tim Edwards -- Discursive constructions of masculinity / Bethan Benwell -- Ambiguous masculinities: heroism and anti-heroism in the men's lifestyle magazine / Bethan Benwell -- 'I've always loved women': the representation of the male sex worker in Maxim / Yolande Taylor and Jane Sunderland -- Comparative masculinities / Belinda Wheaton -- Lifestyle sport magazines and the discourses of sporting masculinity / Belinda Wheaton -- The language of Japanese men's magazines: young men who don't want to get hurt / Keiko Tanaka -- No effeminates please: a corpus-based analysis of masculinity via personal adverts in Gay News/Times 1973-2000 / Paul Baker |
| Summary |
Since its launch in the mid-1980s, the men's lifestyle magazine has provided an important site for the articulation of modern masculinity and for speaking to the male consumer. This edited collection explores this genre, its production and consumption, and related constructions of masculinity |
| Notes |
ANALYTIC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Sociological review monograph no:55 0081-1769 |
| Subject |
Men's magazines.
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Masculinity in popular culture.
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Men's magazines -- Social aspects.
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Men's magazines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Men's magazines -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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Masculinity -- Social aspects.
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Masculinity.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung
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History.
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| Author |
Benwell, Bethan.
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| LC no. |
2004297000 |
| ISBN |
1405114630 |
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1405114649 |
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