Men and Masculinities : Theory, Research and Social Practice

by Haywood, Chris; Mac an Ghaill, Mairtin

• ISBN13: 9780335208913
• ISBN10: 0335208916
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

"a sharp and impressive book, providing an excellent advanced introductory text to the field. The book combines an impressive range of contextual and theoretical analysis, suggests new directions for research and provides a critically self-aware analysis of methodological issues."Sociology* Are all men the same? * What do men want? * What makes a 'real man'? During the past decade, questions such as these have been raised across social and cultural arenas in local and global contexts. In response, this lively and engaging book adopts an international perspective and meets the current need for a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates about men and masculinity. Through a broad critical review of masculinity studies, the book provides an original synthesis of main theories, key concepts and empirical research. Designed to provide an up-to-date guide to the field, it combines the traditional sociological enquiry into the family, work and education with contemporary concerns about multiple identities, globalization and late modernity. Written in a clear and engaging style, this text is essential reading for those studying men and masculinities across sociology, gender/sexuality studies, cultural studies, and politics, as well as anyone with a wider interest in the future of gender relations.

Author Biography

Chris Haywood and Mairtin Mac an Ghaill work in the Department of Education at the University of Newcastle. Chris Haywood works in the areas of sexuality, gender and age relations. Mairtin Mac an Ghaill is interested in the sociology of racism and the cultural formation of gender/sexual identities. They have written widely in the field of masculinity, including the edited collection Understanding Masculinities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Part I: Social practices and cultural arenas: institutional sites
Introduction	3	(1)
Key concepts	3	(1)
Introduction: masculinity in context	4	(2)
What is this book about?	4	(1)
Aims of the book	5	(1)
Framing men and masculinities: towards a sociology	6	(10)
Sex role theory	7	(1)
For feminism: sociology, masculinity and oppression	8	(3)
Beyond oppression	11	(1)
Men and masculinities in late modernity	12	(3)
Moving beyond the body: thinking globally	15	(1)
The structure of the book	16	(3)
Questions for your reflection	18	(1)
Suggested further reading	18	(1)
Working men's way? Exploring masculinity at work	19	(23)
Key concepts	19	(1)
Introduction	20	(2)
The sociology of work: a `man's world?'	20	(1)
Making connections: work as masculine	21	(1)
Mapping men's employment patterns: identifying social change	22	(6)
Feminization I: sexing the crisis	25	(1)
Feminization II: new ways of working with men	26	(2)
Holding onto real men: exploring men's working experience	28	(11)
Working with the body: exploring manual working-class masculinities	28	(2)
Crafting masculinities	30	(2)
Engineering masculinities: working through identities	32	(2)
Managing to be male	34	(2)
Unemployment: the others	36	(3)
Conclusion	39	(3)
Questions for your reflection	41	(1)
Suggested further reading	41	(1)
Men in the family way: remaking fatherhood	42	(20)
Key concepts	42	(1)
Introduction	43	(1)
Establishing fatherhood as a masculinity issue	44	(1)
Cultural remembering and forgetting fathers and fatherhood	45	(3)
Embourgoisement and the symmetrical family: the reconstituted father I	48	(2)
Understanding modern family life: the reconstituted father II	50	(3)
The state: producing legislative gendered categories	53	(2)
Enemies of the state: the production of `feckless fathers'	55	(2)
Families of choice: gay fathers	57	(3)
Conclusion	60	(2)
Questions for your reflection	60	(1)
Suggested further reading	60	(2)
Troubling school boys: making young masculinities	62	(21)
Key concepts	62	(1)
Introduction	63	(1)
Teacher culture and the making of masculine styles	63	(2)
Capitalism, schooling and masculinity	65	(2)
Curriculum and student cultures	67	(3)
Constituting schoolboy subjectivity: age, ethnicity and sexuality	70	(9)
Age: searching for the gendered meaning of boyhood	71	(2)
Ethnicity: a cultural resource to live out young male subjectivities	73	(3)
Sexuality: forging `proper' forms of young masculinity through a (hetero)sexual identity	76	(3)
Conclusion: rethinking the sex/gender system and schooling	79	(4)
Questions for your reflection	80	(1)
Suggested further reading	80	(3)
Part II: Mapping, researching and practising masculinities
A man of the world: emerging representations of global masculinities	83	(18)
Key concepts	83	(1)
Introduction	83	(2)
Men of the world: in search of the `ubiquitous male'	85	(1)
Global relations and gendered nations	86	(6)
Masai warriors, modernity and the remaking of traditional masculinities	87	(1)
Ethnicity, nation and religion: Israeli masculinities	88	(2)
Mexican masculinities	90	(2)
Beyond the gendered nation: disembodied hegemonic masculinities	92	(7)
A global community of men: The Gulf War	93	(3)
Global capitalism	96	(1)
Globalized desire	97	(2)
Conclusion	99	(2)
Questions for your reflection	100	(1)
Suggested further reading	100	(1)
Coming out as a man: methodologies of masculinities	101	(23)
Key concepts	101	(1)
Introduction	102	(1)
Gendered methodologies	102	(10)
Empiricist approaches to masculinity	103	(3)
Critical theory, men's experience and standpoint epistemology	106	(4)
Shifting beyond pro-feminist men's standpoint	110	(2)
Emerging paradigms for masculinity research	112	(7)
Crisis of representation	113	(2)
Multiple subjectivities	115	(1)
Research methods: technologies of truth production	116	(3)
Late modernity, fieldwork and normalizing masculinity	119	(1)
Conclusion	120	(4)
Questions for your reflection	122	(1)
Suggested further reading	122	(2)
Masculinity politics in late modernity	124	(21)
Key concepts	124	(1)
Introduction: `unchanging men' or `men in crisis'	125	(2)
The politics of masculinity: a limited cultural project	127	(8)
Male liberationists: a reformist agenda	128	(1)
`Men Against Sexism': a radical agenda	129	(3)
The New Men's Movement	132	(3)
The future of masculinity politics: searching for a postidentity politics position	135	(1)
Gay men's sexual politics: forging dissident masculinities	136	(6)
Conclusion	142	(3)
Questions for your reflection	144	(1)
Suggested further reading	144	(1)
Conclusion	145	(6)
Introduction	146	(1)
Emerging themes: the importance of the social	146	(3)
Rethinking sex, gender and sexuality	149	(2)
Key concepts	151	(7)
References	158	(16)
Author index	174	(5)
Subject index	179