Young men and masculinities : global cultures and intimate lives / / Victor J. Seidler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910172254103321
• Autore: Seidler Victor J. <1945->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Zed Books; New York, : Distributed exclusively in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
• ISBN: 1-350-22415-4; 1-78032-893-1; 1-281-25905-5; 9786611259051; 1-84813-114-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Collana: Global masculinities
• Disciplina: 306.70835/1
• Soggetti: Young men - Psychology; Young men - Attitudes; Young men - Sexual behavior; Masculinity in popular culture; Culture and globalization
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-244) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: young men and masculinities -- Masculinities, histories, cultures and religions -- Listening, speaking and learning -- Questioning Adam : men, power and love -- Rethinking fatherhood -- Masculinities, bodies and emotional life -- Bodies, desires, pleasures and love -- Authority, identities, bodies and intimacy -- Bodies, ethics, fears and desires -- Friends, risks and transgressions -- Risks, fears, race and belongings -- Risk, self-harm, abuse and control -- Young men, bodies, sexualities and health -- Young men's sexual and reproductive health -- Young men, heroes, violence and conflict.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this book Victor J Seidler, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about masculinities, turns his attention to the lives of young men and their understandings of themselves as gendered ; beings. By contextualizing their experiences and subjectivities within a rapidly globalizing world, Seidler pays particular attention to the impact of the global media. How does the mass circulation of images of men's bodies, desires and sexualities affect their self-perception and behaviours, and how are these images framed within particular histories, cultures and traditions? Questioning univ.