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Book SynopsisThe 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, practitioner
Trade Review
"This handbook offers an indispensable survey of the meanings, forms and structures of masculinity in contemporary culture. This book is timely and relevant!"
Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity
"Covering a broad, interdisciplinary range of approaches within Masculinity Studies, this handbook provides a welcome overview of genealogies and contemporary perspectives. The ambition to decentre the location of the field in the Global North, as well as to highlight its entanglements with feminist, queer, trans-, and postcolonial studies makes the volume stand out.
Nina Lykke, Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University
"This is the text I should have had when I was a young scholar; the fact that I will reach for it today is testimony to the attention the authors pay to the historical journey of masculinity studies while remaining refreshingly relevant. The handbook offers new areas of reading masculinities from transnational, intersectional and multi-disciplinary perspectives. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in the question, ‘who—or what—is a man?’"
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor of African and Gender Studies, University of Ghana (Legon)
Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Theories and perspectives 1. The institutionalization of (critical) studies on men and masculinities: geopolitical perspectives 2. Feminism and men/masculinities scholarship: connections, disjunctions and possibilities 3. Hegemony, hegemonic masculinity, and beyond 4. Pierre Bourdieu and the studies on men and masculinities 5. Foucault’s men, or what have masturbating boys and ancient men to do with masculinity? 6. Queer theory and critical masculinity studies 7. Intersectionality 8. Postcolonial masculinities: diverse, shifting and in flux 9. Approaching affective masculinities 10. Masculinity studies and posthumanism Part 2: Identities and intersectionalities 11. African and black men and masculinities 12. White masculinity 13. Men and masculinities in contemporary East Asia: continuities, changes, and challenges 14. Disability, embodiment and masculinities: a complex matrix 15. Trans masculinities 16. ‘Little boys’: the significance of early childhood in the making of masculinities 17. Young masculinities: masculinities in youth studies 18. "Maturing" theories of aging masculinities and the diverse identity of older men in later life 19. Men, masculinities and social class Part 3: Sex and sexualities 20. The transformation of homosociality 21. Masculinity and homoeroticism 22. The shifting relationship between masculinity and homophobia 23. Multiple forms of masculinity in gay male subcultures 24. Sexual affects: masculinity and online pornographies 25. Exploring men, masculinity and contemporary dating practices 26. Masculinities and sex workers Part 4: Spaces, movements and technologies 27. Men and masculinities in migration processes 28. Locating critical masculinities theory: masculinities in space and place 29. Rural masculinities 30. Men in caring occupations and the postfeminist gender regime 31. Exploring fatherhood in critical gender research 32. Reconfiguring masculinities and education: interconnecting local and global identities 33. The coproduction of masculinity and technology: problems and prospects 34. Men on the move: masculinities, (auto)mobility and car cultures 35. Men, health and medicalization: an overview Part 5: Cultures and aesthetics 36. The ‘male preserve’ thesis, sporting culture, and men’s power 37. Masculinity never plays itself: from representations to forms in American cinema and media studies 38. Masculinities in fashion and dress 39. Masculinities, food and cooking 40. Men, masculinities and music 41. Masculinities and literary studies: past, present, and future directions 42. Men and masculinity in art and art history Part 6: Problems, challenges and ways forward 43. Masculinities, law and crime: socio-legal studies and the ‘man question’ 44. Discursive trends in research on masculinities and interpersonal violence 45. Masculinities, war and militarism 46. Ecological masculinities: a response to the Manthropocene question? 47. Masculinity and/at risk: the social and political context of men’s risk taking as embodied practices, performances and processes 48. Trends and trajectories in engaging men for gender justice
