Being Boys; Being Girls: Learning Masculinities And Femininities

Being Boys; Being Girls: Learning Masculinities And Femininities
Title Being Boys; Being Girls: Learning Masculinities And Femininities PDF eBook
Author Paechter, Carrie
Publisher McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Pages 189
Release 2007-07-01
Genre Education
ISBN 0335219748

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This book is about how boys and girls learn to be men and women. Drawing on a wide range of studies, the author examines how masculinities and femininities are developed and understood by children and young people, in families, in schools, and with their peers.

Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents

Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents
Title Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents PDF eBook
Author Russell Luyt
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 214
Release 2020-03-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 3030351629

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This book explores how political institutions can challenge dominant and normative masculinities, guiding thinking instead toward a transformation of gendered power structures and general equality. Representing a range of relevant areas, the expert chapter authors provide various methodological and theoretical approaches applied to shifting gender meanings in cultural, national, and social contexts. Authors also represent a variety of cultures, contributing to the multi-perspective debate about how best to achieve gender equality in the real world. Among the topics discussed: Reimagining masculinities, their everyday practice and practical interventions Towards a feminist theory of male rape Political implications of challenging men’s everyday practices through domestic violence primary prevention work Men as allies: a case study of White Ribbon Australia Masculine Power and Gender Equality: Masculinities as Change Agents provides valuable insight into strategies for re-imagining male-dominated power structures and promoting gender equality.

The Politics of Being a Woman

The Politics of Being a Woman
Title The Politics of Being a Woman PDF eBook
Author H. Savigny
Publisher Springer
Pages 188
Release 2015-01-08
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137384662

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What does it mean to be a woman in the 21st century? The feminist movement has a long and rich history, but is its time now passed? This edited collection is driven by the question, why is feminism viewed by some (we would add a majority) as outdated, no longer necessary and having achieved its goals, and what role have the media played in this?

Girls Like This, Boys Like That

Girls Like This, Boys Like That
Title Girls Like This, Boys Like That PDF eBook
Author Victoria Cann
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 194
Release 2018-06-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1838608621

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What role does taste play in contemporary youth culture? How do young people reproduce, or alternatively, reject gender norms? Using new research and the work of renowned theorists such as Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Victoria Cann argues that popular culture affects young people's experiences of masculinity and femininity and forces them to navigate a social minefield in which they are pressured to display tastes deemed appropriate for their gender. Combining her own unique empirical research with a strong theoretical framework, Cann widens and links the fields of gender and taste studies to show the everyday reality of twenty-first-century youth and their apprehensions - especially those of young boys- about participating in activities, or embracing pop-cultural preferences that have traditionally only been associated with the opposite sex.

Debating Modern Masculinities

Debating Modern Masculinities
Title Debating Modern Masculinities PDF eBook
Author S. Roberts
Publisher Springer
Pages 225
Release 2014-10-03
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1137394846

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Masculinity, it seems, is in crisis, again. This edited volume critically interrogates the current situation facing contemporary young men. The contributors deconstruct and reject such crisis talk, with its chapters drawing on original research to present a more nuanced reality, whilst also developing a critical dialogue with one another.

Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies

Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies
Title Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies PDF eBook
Author Lucas Gottzén
Publisher Routledge
Pages 595
Release 2019-11-20
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1351676288

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The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future. The forty-eight chapters of the handbook take an interdisciplinary approach to a range of topics on men and masculinities related to identity, sex, sexuality, culture, aesthetics, technology and pressing social issues. The handbook’s transnational lens acknowledges both the localities and global character of masculinity. A clear message in the book is the need for intersectional theorizing in dialogue with feminist, queer and sexuality studies in making sense of men and masculinities. Written in a clear and direct style, the handbook will appeal to students, teachers and researchers in the social sciences and humanities, as well as professionals, practitioners and activists.

Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education

Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education
Title Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education PDF eBook
Author Göran Gerdin
Publisher Routledge
Pages 223
Release 2017-01-12
Genre Education
ISBN 1317232402

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Using visual ethnography, this book explores the many forms of pleasures that boys derive in and through the spaces and their bodies in physical education. Employing the works of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, Gerdin examines how pleasure is connected to identity, schooling, and power relations, and demonstrates how discourses of sport, fitness, health and masculinity work together to produce a variety of pleasurable experiences. At the same time, the book provides a critique of such pleasurable experiences within physical education by illustrating how these pleasures can still, for some boys, quickly turn into displeasures and can be associated with exclusion, humiliation, bullying and homophobia. Boys, Bodies, and Physical Education argues that pleasure can both be seen as an educational and productive practice in physical education but also a constraint that both engenders and privileges some boys over others as well as (re)producing narrow and limited conceptions of masculinity and pleasures for all boys. This book works to problematize these pleasures and their articulations with gender, bodies, and spaces.