Masculinities at the Margins
Title | Masculinities at the Margins PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Chisholm |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2020-05-18 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 1351009869 |
Across a rich terrain of empirical and theoretical trajectories, the concept of military masculinity (now understood in its plural as military masculinities) has been a significant conceptual tool in both feminist international relations (IR) and in critical men and masculinities studies scholarship. The concept has helped us to unpack the relationships between gender, war, and militarism, including how military standards function in the production of wider normative, hegemonic manliness. As such, military masculinities has been a rewarding tool for many scholars who take a critical approach to the study of war and the military. This edited volume advances an emerging curiosity within accounts of military masculinities. This curiosity concerns the silences within, and disruptions to, our well-established and perhaps-too-comfortable understandings of, and empirical focal points for, military masculinities, gender, and war. The contributors to this volume trouble the ease with which we might be tempted to synonymize militaries, war, and a neat, ‘hegemonic’ masculinity. Taking the disruptions, the asides, and the silences seriously challenges the common wisdoms of military masculinities, gender, and war in productive and necessary ways. Doing so necessitates a reorientation of where, to whom, and for what we look to understand the operation of gendered military power. The chapters were originally published in a special issue of Critical Military Studies.
Beyond Borders
Title | Beyond Borders PDF eBook |
Author | Marlen Elliot Harrison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011-01 |
Genre | Gender identity |
ISBN | 9781931342315 |
Beyond Borders presents a select group of reviewed papers presented at the 17th Annual American Men's Studies Association Conference (Montreal, Canada).
Male Subjectivity at the Margins
Title | Male Subjectivity at the Margins PDF eBook |
Author | Kaja Silverman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2017-09-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1135200637 |
Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm.
Communicating Marginalized Masculinities
Title | Communicating Marginalized Masculinities PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald L. Jackson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0415623073 |
For years, research concerning masculinities has explored the way that men have dominated, exploited, and dismantled societies, asking how we might make sense of marginalized masculinities in the context of male privilege. This volume asks not only how terms such as men and masculinity are socially defined and culturally instantiated, but also how the media has constructed notions of masculinity that have kept minority masculinities on the margins. Essays explore marginalized masculinities as communicated through film, television, and new media, visiting representations and marginalized identity politics while also discussing the dangers and pitfalls of a media pedagogy that has taught audiences to ignore, sidestep, and stereotype marginalized group realities. While dominant portrayals of masculine versus feminine characters pervade numerous television and film examples, this collection examines heterosexual and queer, military and civilian, as well as Black, Japanese, Indian, White, and Latino masculinities, offering a variance in masculinities and confronting male privilege as represented on screen, appealing to a range of disciplines and a wide scope of readers.
Young Men Navigating Contemporary Masculinities
Title | Young Men Navigating Contemporary Masculinities PDF eBook |
Author | Karla Elliott |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 2020-02-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3030363953 |
This book explores navigations of contemporary masculinities amongst young, advantaged men living in Australia and Germany. Taking an intersectional approach, the book argues that more open, egalitarian forms of masculinity, such as caring masculinities, are fostered by marginalised groups. Elliott investigates ways in which privileged men can move towards this openness alongside ongoing expressions of more traditional or regressive masculinity. Drawing on interviews, the book explores these navigations and the ways in which they are bound up with themes such as work, mobility, relationships, the privileges and pressures of masculinities, and the contradictions and difficulties of masculinities under neoliberalism. What is revealed is the need for change at individual, collective and structural levels, with care and openness amongst men as a means of achieving this change. Young Men Navigating Contemporary Masculinities will be of interest to students and scholars in fields such as sociology, gender studies, critical studies on men and masculinities, and cultural studies.
Arab Masculinities
Title | Arab Masculinities PDF eBook |
Author | Konstantina Isidoros |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2022-01-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253058902 |
Arab Masculinities provides a groundbreaking analysis of Arab men's lives in the precarious aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings. It challenges received wisdoms and entrenched stereotypes about Arab men, offering new understandings of rujula, or masculinity, across the Middle East and North Africa. The 10 individual chapters of the book foreground the voices and stories of Arab men as they face economic precarity, forced displacement, and new challenges to marriage and family life. Rich in ethnographic details, they illuminate how men develop alternative strategies of affective labor, how they attempt to care for themselves and their families within their local moral worlds, and what it means to be a good son, husband, father, and community member. Arab Masculinities sheds light on the most private spaces of Arab men's lives—offering stories that rarely enter the public realm. It is a pioneering volume that reflects the urgent need for new anthropological scholarship on men and masculinities in a changing Middle East.
Henry James and Masculinity
Title | Henry James and Masculinity PDF eBook |
Author | Kelly Cannon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Masculinity in literature |
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