"a sharp and impressive book, providing an excellent advanced introductory text to the field. The book combines an impressive range of contextual and theoretical analysis, suggests new directions for research and provides a critically self-aware analysis of methodological issues." Sociology * Are al[...]
This text offers a wide-ranging account of the dynamic relationship between gender, culture and society. Incorporating feminist theory, theories of men and masculinity, and post-structuralism, the authors provide a balanced study of the diverse, complex and fluid nature of gender at a time of rapid [...]
Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a crisis of masculinity is played out, and schools have become a focus for practical attempts to reconcile social and cult[...]
Masculinity is gaining increasing popular and academic interest. At one level, football hooligans, absent fathers, 'Essex man' and 'new men' are regular media presences. At the same time, masculinity is the subject of increasingly sophisicated theoretical discussion, and there are a wide range of [...]