Masculinities in Transition

by Robinson, Victoria; Hockey, Jenny

• ISBN13: 9780230201590
• ISBN10: 0230201598
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men#x19;s contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity.

Author Biography

Victoria Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is the author of Everyday Masculinities and Extreme Sport: Male Identity and Rock Climbing, co-author of Mundane Heterosexualities, and co-editor of the third edition of Introducing Gender and Women's Studies. Jenny Hockey is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Sheffield University, UK. She is co-author of Mundane Heterosexualities and a former editor of the Journal of Gender Studies. Her research interests include ageing, the life course, death, bereavement and memorialisation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Meeting Men on the Move
Masculinities in Transition
Home and Work in Historical Context
Continuities, Conflicts and Contradictions
Masculinities in Prospect: The Life Course and Chronology
Belonging: Scrutiny, Irony and Performance
Embodiment: Masculinity and the Body
'I'm a suit man': Embodying Occupational Masculinities
The Sociable Body
The Performing Body
Embodying Mundane and Life Course Transitions
Masculinity and Emotionality
Emotional Labour Revisited
Sharing Emotion: Men's Experiences of Vulnerability
Men and Friendship
Emotionality and the Research Process
Undoing Gender/Gender Undone
References