The Men and the Boys

by Connell, R. W.

• ISBN13: 9780520228696
• ISBN10: 0520228693
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

The Men and the Boys attempts to connect questions about masculinity with globalization and world society; rethink men's gender in relation to bodies and sexuality; and connect the new perspectives on masculinity with practical issues of health, education, and peacemaking.

Author Biography

R. W. Connell is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney.

Table of Contents

PART 1 EXAMINING MASCULINITIES	1	(37)
Debates about men, new research on masculinities	3	(12)
Issues about men and boys	3	(3)
The new social research on masculinity	6	(3)
Key conclusions of recent research	9	(6)
New directions in theory and research	15	(22)
Current debate: Concepts of gender and approaches to masculinity	16	(7)
The gender relations approach	23	(6)
Conceptualizing masculinities	29	(3)
Agenda for research	32	(5)
PART 2 GLOBALIZATION	37	(30)
Masculinities and globalization	39	(18)
The world gender order	40	(3)
The repositioning of men and the remaking of masculinities	43	(3)
Globalizing masculinities	46	(6)
Masculinity politics on a world scale	52	(5)
Globalization and men's bodies	57	(10)
Understanding men's bodies	57	(3)
Imperialism and men's bodies	60	(2)
Contemporary globalization and men's bodies	62	(3)
Implications for gender reform	65	(2)
PART 3 BODIES AND DESIRES	67	(62)
An iron man	69	(17)
Being a champion	70	(4)
Soft path, hard goal	74	(2)
The body and the self	76	(4)
Wanting to win: The ideology of competitive sport	80	(3)
Reflections	83	(3)
`I threw it like a girl': Some difficulties with male bodies	86	(16)
Looking at jelly: Adam Singer	87	(7)
Burning up the body: Tip Southern	94	(5)
Reflections	99	(3)
Man to man: Homosexual desire and practice among working-class men (written with M.D. Davis and G.W. Dowsett)	102	(27)
The working-class setting	104	(4)
The social framework of male-to-male sex	108	(6)
Sexual practice	114	(4)
Desire and identity	118	(4)
The HIV/AIDS epidemic	122	(4)
Reflections	126	(3)
PART 4 PRACTICALITIES	129	(68)
Cool guys, swots and wimps	131	(17)
Getting into trouble	133	(3)
Knowing where you stand	136	(3)
Over the hump	139	(2)
Dry sciences	141	(2)
Reading feminism	143	(2)
Reflections	145	(3)
Teaching the boys	148	(29)
Schools and gender	150	(5)
Schools as agents in the making of masculinities	155	(6)
Pupils as agents, school as setting	161	(3)
Educational strategies in work with boys	164	(8)
The process of change	172	(5)
Men's health	177	(20)
Research evidence on men's health	178	(1)
Sex differences in health	179	(3)
The health of specific groups of men	182	(2)
How some masculinizing practices damage bodies	184	(4)
Attempts to make men's bodies healthy	188	(4)
The `cradle to grave' health disadvantage of men	192	(2)
Reflections	194	(3)
PART 5 CHANGING MASCULINITIES	197	(30)
The politics of change in masculinity	199	(13)
The historical moment	201	(1)
Men's interests	202	(3)
Purposes	205	(3)
A men's movement?	208	(4)
Arms and the man: The question of peace	212	(15)
Why war?	212	(1)
The problem of men and violence	213	(3)
Implications of masculinity research	216	(4)
Global patterns	220	(3)
Peace strategies and masculinities	223	(4)
Acknowledgments and sources	227	(4)
References	231	(16)
Index	247