Dying to be Men [[electronic resource] ] : Psychosocial, Environmental, and Biobehavioral Directions in Promoting the Health of Men and Boys

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910789404303321
• Autore: Courtenay Will H
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2011
• ISBN: 0-203-85324-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (512 p.)
• Collana: The Routledge Series on Counseling and Psychotherapy with Boys and Men
• Disciplina: 613/.04234; 616.890081
• Soggetti: Men - Health and hygiene; Health behavior; Men's Health; Masculinity; Health Status; Health Promotion - methods; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 2. Behavioral Factors Associated With Disease, Injury, and Death Among Men: Evidence and Implications for PreventionSection II: Why Men and Boys do the Things that Make Them Sick and Kill Them: Introduction: Who Are the "Men" in "Men's Health"?; 3. Engendering Health: The Social Construction ofGendered Health Beliefs and Behaviors; 4. Constructions of Masculinity and Their Influence onMen's Well-Being: A Theory of Gender and Health; Section III: Specific Populations Introduction: Ethnicity Matters; 5. Rural Men's Health: Situating Men's Risk in theNegotiation of Masculinity; 6. College Men's Health7. Preventive Health Strategies for Men in Prison: Will H. Courtenay and Don Sabo; Section IV: Emerging Research on Men, Masculinity, and Health: Introduction: Youth Violence? Let's Call It What It Is; 8. Gender and Ethnic Differences in Health Beliefs and Behaviors: Will H. Courtenay, Donald R. McCreary, and Joseph R. Merighi; 9. Masculinity and Gender Role Conflict: How They Influence ; the Likelihood That Men Will Engage in Multiple High-Risk Behaviors: Will H. Courtenay and Donald R. McCreary; 10. Measurement of Men's Help Seeking: Development and Evaluation of the Barriers to Help Seeking Scale: Abigail K. Mansfield, Michael E. Addis, and Will H. Courtenay11. The Drive for Muscularity and Masculinity: Testing the Associations Among Gender Role Traits, Behaviors, Attitudes, and Conflict: Donald R. McCreary, Deborah M. Saucier, and Will H. Courtenay; Section V: Reaching Men: Introduction: Making Health Manly: Social Marketing and Men's Health; 12. Counseling Men About Their Health: An Evidence-Based Practice Guideline
• Sommario/riassunto: Masculinity has a powerful effect on the health of men and boys. Indeed, many of the behaviors they use to ""be men"" actually increase their risk of disease, injury, and death. In this book, Dr. Will Courtenay, an internationally recognized expert on men's health, provides a foundation for understanding this troubling reality. With a comprehensive review of data and literature, he identifies specific gender differences in the health-related attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of men and boys and the health consequences of these differences. He then describes the powerful social, environmenta

They Will Have Their Game : Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic / / Kenneth Cohen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910796585003321
• Autore: Cohen Kenneth
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• ISBN: 1-5017-5200-6; 1-5017-1421-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 306.4830973
• Soggetti: Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century; Popular culture - United States - History - 18th century; Sports - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century; Sports - Social aspects - United States - History - 18th century; Electronic books.; United States Civilization 1783-1865
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2017.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Colonial Period -- 1. The Rise of Genteel Sport -- 2. A Revolution in Sporting Culture -- Part Two. The Early National Period -- 3. Sport Reborn -- 4. Prestige or Profit -- Part Three. The Antebellum Period -- 5. A Mass Sporting Industry -- 6. Sporting Cultures -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished correspondence, and material and visual evidence, Cohen demonstrates how investors, participants, and professional managers and performers from all sorts of backgrounds saw these "sporting" activities as stages for securing economic and political advantage over others.They Will Have Their Game tracks the evolution of this fight for power from 1760 to 1860, showing how its ; roots in masculine competition and risk-taking gradually developed gendered and racial limits and then spread from leisure activities to the consideration of elections as "races" and business as a "game." Compelling narratives about individual participants illustrate the processes by which challenge and conflict across class, race, and gender lines produced a sporting culture that continued to grant unique freedoms to a wide range of society even as it also provided a basis for the normalization of systematic inequality. The result reorients the standard narrative about the rise of commercial popular culture to question the influence of ideas such as "gentility" and "respectability," and to put men like P. T. Barnum at the end instead of the beginning of the process, unveiling a new take on the creation of the white male republic of the early nineteenth century in which sporting activities lie at the center and not the margins of economic and political history.