The Metrosexual
Title | The Metrosexual PDF eBook |
Author | David Coad |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2014-02-07 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0791478416 |
Explores the cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports.
The Metrosexual Guide To Style
Title | The Metrosexual Guide To Style PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Flocker |
Publisher | Da Capo Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780306813436 |
Presents a guide for men on such topics as etiquette, grooming, fitness, fashion, and home decor.
Buttoned Up
Title | Buttoned Up PDF eBook |
Author | Erynn Masi de Casanova |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-12-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1501700952 |
Who is today’s white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men’s bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up, based on interviews with dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress cultures—New York, San Francisco, and Cincinnati—Erynn Masi de Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now. Despite the expansion of men’s fashion and grooming practices, the decrease in formal dress codes, and the relaxing of traditional ideas about masculinity, white-collar men feel constrained in their choices about how to embody professionalism. They strategically embrace conformity in clothing as a way of maintaining their gender and class privilege. Across categories of race, sexual orientation and occupation, men talk about "blending in" and "looking the part" as they aim to keep their jobs or pursue better ones. These white-collar workers’ accounts show that greater freedom in work dress codes can, ironically, increase men’s anxiety about getting it wrong and discourage them from experimenting with their dress and appearance.
The Reluctant Metrosexual
Title | The Reluctant Metrosexual PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Hyman |
Publisher | Villard |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2004-07-27 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1588363805 |
Peter Hyman wants the model/Fulbright Scholar girlfriend, the job with generous stock options and the well-appointed 2BR w/vu. Instead he routinely finds himself single and underemployed in his closet-free walk-up. The last woman he liked got back together with her lesbian lover; the one before that threw up on the first date. Welcome to the almost hip life of a reluctant metrosexual–a straight man whose tastes are just gay enough. Equal parts cultural anthropologist, amateur sexologist and witty skeptic, Hyman wryly chronicles the promiscuity and perils of modern manhood, whether he’s undergoing a painful Brazilian bikini wax, lurching through a disastrous threesome, or poignantly reflecting on the Scotch-soaked grief of a difficult breakup. So sit back in your Eames lounger and revel in the good fortune that The Reluctant Metrosexual is not you, it’s him.
Metrosexual Masculinities
Title | Metrosexual Masculinities PDF eBook |
Author | M. Hall |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 197 |
Release | 2014-12-05 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1137404744 |
Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. This book examines 'metrosexuality', highlighting the negotiation and construction of masculinities and sexualities in the twenty-first century.
Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Title | Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | J. Gwynne |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2013-06-28 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 113730684X |
By analyzing the negotiation of femininities and masculinities within contemporary Hollywood cinema, Postfeminism and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema presents diverse interrogations of popular cinema and illustrates the need for a renewed scholarly focus on contemporary film production.
The Metrosexuals
Title | The Metrosexuals PDF eBook |
Author | Himanshu Verma |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Bisexual men |
ISBN |
With reference to India.