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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.

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.

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.

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.

This study argues that hegemonic masculinity and inclusive masculinity are conciliatory when applied to networked masculinities in homosexual spaces. It contends hegemonic masculinity is a macro-level process that informs micro-level processes of inclusive masculinity. Employing a textual analysis of 500 individual profiles in gay dating apps (Scruff, GROWLr, GuySpy and Hornet), findings indicate networked masculinities informed by hegemonic masculinity. A process of "mascing" also resulted from the data.

Kim Townsend, Manhood at Harvard: William James and OthersNaomi Segal, André Gide: Pederasty and PedagogyTrev Lynn Broughton, Men of Letters, Writing Lives: Masculinity and Literary Auto/Biography

Dominant discourses surrounding gender tend to promote the view that the human race is naturally divided into male and female, where masculinity is fixed, stable and timeless, and where the natural difference between men and women is sharply emphasized. Nevertheless, gender studies are shifting from exclusive focus on women to a new interest in men, not as a monolithic group with fixed boundaries but rather as men whose masculinity is moulded in particular times and settings. There are no significant studies that treat Arab males as gendered subjects, or products of "social conditioning."1 Indeed, masculinity in the Arab world is generally treated as timeless and universal.