Spaces of masculinities [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Bettina van Hoven and Kathrin Hörschelmann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827257203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; New York, : Routledge, 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-28957-0; 9786610289578; 0-203-50725-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Collana: Critical geographies ; ; 20
• Altri autori (Persone): HovenBettina van; HörschelmannKathrin <1971->
• Disciplina: 305.31
• Soggetti: Men; Masculinity; Gender identity
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Spaces of Masculinities; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: from geographies of men to geographies of women and back again?; Part 1 Masculinities in transition; 2 The men and the boys: bankers, burger makers and barmen; 3 The logic and limitations of male working-class culture in a resource hinterland; 4 Masculinity and rurality; 5 The maladies of manhood in the Buzerplatz: Czech military officers in 'transition'; Part2 Masculinities and cultural change; 6 Transient masculinities: Indian IT-professionals in Germany; 7 Globalization and masculine space in India and Fiji8 Latin American urban masculinities: going beyond 'the macho'; Part3 Masculinity and violence; 9 Ethnic violence and crises of masculinity: Lebanon in comparative perspective; 10 Mobilizing the rhetoric of defence: exploring working-class masculinities in the divided city; 11 Deviant masculinities: representations of neo-fascist youth in eastern Germany; Part 4 Embodied masculinities; 12 Shifting spaces of masculinity: from Carisbrook to the MCG; 13 'Man-breasts': Spaces of sexual difference, fluidity and abjection; 14 Tattoos in prison: men and their pictures on the edge of society15 'You questioning my manhood, boy?': using work to play with gender roles in a regime of male skilled-labour; Part5 Sexuality and relationships; 16 Exploring notions of masculinity and fatherhood: when gay sons 'come out' to heterosexual fathers; 17 The awkward spaces of fathering; 18 Stages and streets: reading and (mis)reading female masculinities; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Changing circumstances in Western and global societies have introduced new constraints and opportunities for men and the formation of male identities. Meanwhile, the emerging diversity of 'atypical' identities ('atypical' when compared with traditional conceptions of middle-class, white, heterosexual men) poses new challenges for the production and use of spaces.Spaces of Masculinities provides a comprehensive introduction to the innovative and diverse research on spaces of masculinity. Drawing on a variety of geographical research projects, the central concern of the book i