Masculinities

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Introducing Masculinities -- Growth of the Field of Study -- Debates and Difficulties -- The Global Dimension -- In Conclusion -- Part I Knowledge and its Problems -- 1 The Science of Masculinity -- Rival Knowledges -- Clinical Knowledge -- The Oedipus complex -- Archetype and identity -- Radical psychoanalysis -- The Male Role -- The New Social Science -- Histories -- Ethnography of the other -- Social construction and gender dynamics -- Political Knowledge -- The Object of Knowledge -- 2 Men's Bodies -- True Masculinity -- Machine, Landscape and Compromise -- The Body Inescapable -- Complexities of Mire or Blood -- Banquo's Ghost: Body-Reflexive Practices -- Forming the World -- 3 The Social Organization of Masculinity -- Defining Masculinity -- Gender as a Structure of Social Practice -- Relations among Masculinities: Hegemony, Subordination, Complicity, Marginalization -- Historical Dynamics, Violence and Crisis Tendencies -- Part II Four Studies of the Dynamics of Masculinity -- Introduction -- 4 Live Fast and Die Young -- Group and Context -- Abstract Labour -- Violence and the State -- Compulsory Heterosexuality for Men -- Masculinity as Collective Practice -- Protest Masculinity -- Other Trajectories -- Divergent Masculinities and Gender Politics -- 5 A Whole New World -- The Moment of Engagement -- Distancing -- The Environmental Movement -- Encounters with Feminism -- The Moment of Separation -- The Annihilation of Masculinity -- The Moment of Contestation -- 6 A Very Straight Gay -- The Moment of Engagement -- The Grain of Sand: Sexuality -- Being Gay: Identity and Relationships -- Relations between Masculinities -- Facing Change -- Gay Masculinity as Project and History -- 7 Men of Reason.