"...a wide-ranging, interesting and thought-provoking approach to the study and understanding of contemporary masculinities which should appeal to students and prove a useful and stimulating teaching resource." - Work, Employment and Society "...contains fascinating and valuable material, and in the introductionand in the final chapters poses many questions about possible future directions both for research and action." - Reviewing Sociology
Mairtin Mac an Ghaill presently works at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling (Open University Press, 1994)
social relations of masculinities
introduction
'Feckless fathers'
masculinities and the British state
Masculinities and families
Schooling masculinities
'Men' at 'work'
multiple masculinities\multiple workplaces
Men, masculinity and the challenge of long-term unemployment
cultural arenas of masculinities
masculinity, power and identity
'One thing leads to another'
drinking, fighting and working class masculinities
Sporting masculinities
gender relations and the body
Are you sitting comfortably? Men's story telling, masculinities, prison culture, and violence
From 'little fairy boy' to 'the compleat destroyer'
subjectivity and the transformation in the biography of Mike Tyson
'Empowering men to disempower themselves'
heterosexual masculinities, HIV and the contradictions of anti-oppressive education
critical evaluations of masculinities
reading black masculinities
Is masculinity dead? A critique of the concept of masculinity\masculinities
Index.