Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney University Professor)

Masculinities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connella s ground--breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 2nd Edition
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 153mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780745634272
• ISBN-10: 0745634273
• Artikelnr.: 20898310

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction to the second edition
Part I: Knowledge and its Problems:
1. The Science of Masculinity.
2. Men's Bodies.
3. The Social Organization of Masculinity.
Part II: Four Studies of the Dynamics of Masculinity: . Introduction.
4. Live Fast and Die Young.
5. A Whole New World.
6. A Very Straight Gay.
7. Men of Reason.
Part III: History and Politics:
8. The History of Masculinity.
9. Masculinity Politics.
10. Practice and Utopia.
Afterword: The Contemporary Politics of Masculinity
References and bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

"In a new introduction and afterword, Connell reviews more recent work and extends some of his thinking on the significance to masculinity of global economics, politics and culture."

Times Higher Education Supplement