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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154864503321

Titolo

Dislocating masculinity : comparative ethnographies / / edited by Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-315-40828-7

1-315-40830-9

1-315-40829-5

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (243 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

CornwallAndrea <1963->

LindisfarneNancy <1944->

Disciplina

155.332

Soggetti

Men - Psychology

Masculinity

Androcentrism

Feminist criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

1. Dislocating masculinity : gender, power and anthropology / Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne -- 2. Missing masculinity? : prostitutes' clients in Alicante, Spain / Angie Hart -- 3. A broken mirror : masculine sexuality in Greek ethnography / Peter Loizos -- 4. Variant masculinities, variant virginities : rethinking ' honour and shame' / Nancy Lindisfarne -- 5. 'We're here, we're queer, and we're not going shopping' : changing gay male identities in contemporary Britain / David Forrest -- 6. Gendered identities and gender ambiguity among travestis in Salvador, Brazil / Andrea Cornwall -- 7. Pandora unbound : a feminist critique of Foucault's History of sexuality / Lin Foxhall -- 8. Men don't go to the moon : language, space and masculinities in Zimbabwe / Chenjerai Shire -- 9. An economy of affect : objectivity, masculinity and the gendering of police work / Bonnie McElhinny -- 10. The 'white negro' revisited : race and masculinities in south London / Les Back -- 11. 'Real true boys' : moulding the cadets of imperialism / Helen Kanitkar -- 12. The paradoxes of masculinity : some thoughts on segregated societies / Deniz Kandiyoti.



Sommario/riassunto

Originally published in 1994, and now a feminist classic, Dislocating Masculinity offers a penetrating critique of writing on and by men. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists, linguists and historians, it raises important comparative questions about how gender operates, addressing issues of embodiment, agency, gender inequality and the variety of masculine styles.