Deconstructing Men & Masculinities

Michael Atkinson is an associate professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Health at the University of Toronto. Before arriving at U of T, Atkinson taught research methods at the School of Sport and Exercise Science at Loughborough University in the UK. Atkinson has also taught in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario and in the sociology departments at both Memorial University and McMaster University. Throughout his academic career, Atkinson has researched and taught courses in the sociology of bodies, sport, health and wellness, deviance and crime, popular culture, subcultures, youth, and research methods. He locates his work within three substantive areas: masculinities, violence, and liminality.

Deconstructing Men & Masculinities is a book with tremendous potential from a highly respected scholar.

• Preface ; Introduction: Masculinity in Crisis? ; What? A Masculinity Crisis? Really? ; Defining the Crisis ; Perceiving the Crisis ; Summary ; 1. Men, Power, and Pastiche Hegemony ; Chapter Objectives ; Knowing Masculinity and Social Power ; The Root of It All: Hegemony, Late Modernity, and Fear ; Late modernity, implosion, and crisis ; Summary ; 2. Violence, Residue, and Pastiche Hegemony ; Chapter Objectives ; Masculinity, Violence, and Moral Panicking: The Usual Suspects ; Violence, men, and media panics ; Spectacle, Self-Violence, and Crisis Subjectivities: Project Mayhem ; I. Backyard Wrestling ; II. Laddism ; III. Bugchasing ; IV. Ultra-Endurance Running ; Summary ; 3. The Lost (and Found) Boys ; Chapter Objectives ; Finding Boys through Straightedge ; Crisis, Callings, and Boyhood Masculinities ; Doing the Straightedge Vocation ; Summary ; 4. Male Femininities, Metrosexualities, and Liquid Ubersexualities ; Chapter Objectives ; Real Men Disappearing in a Risk Society ; Male Femininity ; Liquid Ubersexuality ; Ubersexuality and Body Supplementation ; Summary ; 5. Sporting Masculinities ; Chapter Objectives ; Case Studies in Residual Patriarchy ; I. Sexual Assault ; II. Hazing ; Summary ; 6. Mass-Mediating Risk Masculinities ; Chapter Objectives ; Three Faces of Televised Masculinity ; I. Unapologetic Men: Take Off, You Hoser ; II. On the Margins: Boys and Men at Risk ; III. Boys in Crisis: Atavism as Spectacle ; Summary ; 7. The Unbearable Whiteness of Being ; Chapter Objectives ; Physical Cultural [Whiteness] Studies ; Postcolonialism and Whiteness Studies ; From Libertarianism to Transhumanism ; The Triumph of the Object-Body ; No More Mr. White Guy: Humanity+ in Popular Culture ; Summary ; Epilogue