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AbstractThe study of masculinities is a recent growing field in Anthropology. Within this growing subfield, one must be careful to study masculinities within wide circuits of power. By examining masculinities instead of masculinity, I center the social context and multiplicities necessary to ethnographically chart masculinities without falling into the trap of just centering male bodies and only the social practices of men. Masculinities must be understood in relation to colonialism, postcolonialism, imperialism, racism, heterosexism, and heteronormativity. Black feminist theory, women of color feminism, Third World feminism, and queer of color critique provide important theoretical tools in ethnographic research to decipher power and can destabilize singular, hegemonic Western epistemologies about masculinity. Through such a theoretical engagement, I showcase the complexity, multiplicity, and contradictions in the performance of masculinities in the global South, in queer of color communities, in Indigenous communities, and across various institutions in social life.

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.

Part 1: Masculinities and Religion: 1. Gender and Islamic Spirituality: A Psychological View of 'Low' Fundamentalism / Durre S. Ahmed -- 2. The Smile of Death and the Solemncholy of Masculinity / Banu Helvacioglu -- 3. Alternate Images of the Prophet Muhammad's Virility / Ruth Roded -- 4. The Trial of Heritage and the Legacy of Abraham / Najat Rahman -- Part 2: Masculinities and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: 5. My wife is from the Jinn: Palestinian men, diaspora, and love / Celia Rothenberg -- 6. Chasing Horses, Eating Arabs / Rob K. Baum -- 7. Stranger Masculinities: Gender and Politics in a Palestinian-Israeli 'Third Space' / Daniel Monterescu -- Part 3: Masculinities and Social Practice: 8. Gender, Power and Social Change in Morocco / Don Conway-Long -- 9. Masculinity and Gender Violence in Yemen / Mohammed Baobaid -- 10. Opportunities for Masculinity and Love: Cultural Production in Ba'thist Iraq during the 1980s / Achim Rohde -- 11. On Being Homosexual and Muslim: Conflicts and Challenges / Asifa Siraj -- 12. "The Worms Are Weak": Male Infertility and Patriarchal Paradoxes in Egypt / Marcia C. Inhorn.

Discourses, forms and practices of masculinities have seen significant transformations throughout Chinese history, yet enduring patterns and themes can be picked out. The two most enduring concepts in Chinese masculinities, wen (cultural attainment) and wu (martial attainment), form the departure point of this study, which surveys masculinities in China chronologically through the pre-modern, Republican, high socialist, and reform eras. Despite the epistemic changes throughout the 20th century, the wen-wu dyad has remained a relevant, if diluted perspective from which to interpret masculinities in contemporary China. Echoes of the "fragile scholar" (才子 caizi) can be seen in today's androgynous pop stars; the "Confucian gentleman" (君子 junzi) is promoted as China's civilizational archetype; the middle class adopt wen aspirations; the affective relations of "good fellow" (好汉haohan) brotherhoods are echoed in carousing during yingchou socialising; and the male protagonists of contemporary TV dramas infuse Confucian morality and brotherly loyalty into a calculating market logic. Furthermore, male honour is still a key component of masculinities, albeit expressed through wealth and concepts such as "face", "ability", and "responsibility", rather than "righteousness" or slavish devotion to political leaders. The tender father and romantic partner may have taken centre stage, but achieving honour through one's wife—via her fidelity, submission, education, presentation, or state of leisure—persists, and concubines are making a post-Mao comeback in the shape of "second wives". A lively gay culture exists without legal or political affirmation. Yet above all, the story of masculinities in China is the story of power and its contestation, as it is anywhere. The reconfiguration of masculinities in China has served elite men's struggles to retain their privileges vis-à-vis women and other men; and Chinese men broadly continue to reap many benefits in what remains for the most part a man's world.

Across the West, suicide rates in young men have been rising for some time. This trend has attracted considerable media attention and is often cited within media discourse as evidence of a 'crisis of masculinity'. The field of suicide research (or suicidology) is dominated by quantitative methodology, and although there has been research attention to the gendered character of suicidal behaviour, studies tend to compare 'men' as a group with 'women' as a group. There is also relatively little consideration within this literature of power relations and the social-political dimension of masculinities. This paper argues the case for a qualitative sociological approach to the study of gendered suicide and begins to outline a framework for understanding the diversity of suicidal masculinities. Connell's theoretical work on masculinities is used to analyse evidence from the suicidology literature. The framework includes consideration of when hegemonic masculinity fails; the subordinated masculinities of gay sexuality and mental illness; and control in intimate relationships.

Signe Arnfred anmelder "Masculinities Matter! Men, Gender and Development" af Frances Cleaver (ed.).

There is a great dearth of studies on masculinities in the Islamic and Arab world, and emerging literature on 'subaltern' masculinities (in this region at least) comes mostly in the form of collected essays as opposed to single-author, depth-of-field treatises. But even as it grows, this young field seems to avoid building up a canon, and this is by no means a criticism. Practitioners in this field, as in this particular collection of essays, have opted for multiplicity in form as well as content rather than any unitary voice.

In unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen lassen sich in den vergangenen Jahren Transformationen von Männlichkeit(en) beobachten, die u. a. in veränderten Bildungserfolgen von Jungen und im Phänomen der 'neuen Väter' zum Ausdruck kommen. Aktuell zeigen sich verschiedene Erklärungsansätze innerhalb der kritischen Männlichkeitsforschung, um einen Wandel von Männlichkeit(en) beschreiben zu können. Vor allem werden diesbezüglich die beiden als konträr zueinander erscheinenden Ansätze der Caring Masculinities und hybriden Männlichkeit(en) diskutiert. Dabei verweisen empirische Erkenntnisse aus dem Feld fürsorgender Männlichkeiten darauf, dass auch Caring Masculinities im Sinne hybrider Männlichkeiten gedacht werden können, indem sie zur Aufrechterhaltung hegemonialer Männlichkeit beitragen. Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich dementsprechend mit der Konkretisierung der beiden theoretischen Ansätze und liefert erste Anknüpfungspunkte für eine mögliche Zusammenführung, indem Care als wesentliches Element herausgestellt wird.

Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. This book examines 'metrosexuality', highlighting the negotiation and construction of masculinities and sexualities in the twenty-first century.

How do gay men respond to controlling notions of masculinity in society and stereotypes of gay sexuality? This book explores the ways in which gay men in the United States engage in, contest and modify these notions and develop a sense of masculine identity. The book examines the creation of identity through the everyday lives of gay men: their work; home; community; and relationships

"Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary masculinity"--

Contributors from diverse backgrounds address the different disciplinary roots of theories of masculinity - sociology, psychoanalysis, ethnography, and inequality studies. Chapters theoretically model many issues central to the study of men - power, ethnicity, feminism, homophobia - or develop theoretical explanations of some of the institutions most closely identified with men including the military and the men's movement

Recent social science research has made important changes in our understanding of masculinities and men's gender practices, emphasizing the plurality and hierarchy of masculinities, and their collective and dynamic character. These gains have been achieved mainly by close-focus research methods. But in a globalizing world, we must pay attention also to very large scale structures. An understanding of the world gender order is a necessary basis for thinking about men and masculinities globally. We can trace the emergence of globalizing masculinities at different stages of the history of the world gender order. Hegemony in the contemporary gender order is connected with patterns of trade, investment, and communication dominated by the North. A transnational business masculinity, institutionally based in multinational corporations and global finance markets, is arguably the emerging dominant form on a world scale.