Redundant masculinities? : employment change and white working class youth / / Linda McDowell
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| Autore: |
McDowell Linda <1949->
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| Titolo: |
Redundant masculinities? : employment change and white working class youth / / Linda McDowell
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| Pubblicazione: | Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.242/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Young men - Employment - Great Britain |
| Men, White - Employment - Great Britain | |
| Minorities - Employment - Great Britain | |
| High school dropouts - Employment - Great Britain | |
| Men, White - Great Britain - Psychology | |
| Masculinity - Great Britain | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-276) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction : young, white, male and working class -- The rise of poor work : employment restructuring and changing class and gender identities -- The contemporary crisis of masculinity : it's hard to be(come) a man or the problem of/for boys -- Living on the edge : marginal lives in Cambridge and Sheffield -- Leaving school : pathways to employment and further education -- Actively seeking employment : committed workers and reluctant learners -- Uncertain transitions : accidental and incidental workers, the excluded and escape attempts -- Performing identity : protest and domestic masculinities -- Conclusions : what is to be done about boys? |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men.Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard.Looks at how the labour market is changing.Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities.Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Redundant masculinities |
| ISBN: | 1-4443-5559-7 |
| 1-281-31050-6 | |
| 9786611310509 | |
| 0-470-77372-3 | |
| 0-470-77535-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910877136903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Antipode book series ; ; 2.