Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World

Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World
Author: Simon Wendt
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137536101

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Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World sheds new light on the interrelationship between gender and the nation, focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between 1800 and the 1960s.

Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World

Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World
Author: Simon Wendt
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2014-01-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781349565986

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Masculinities and the Nation in the Modern World sheds new light on the interrelationship between gender and the nation, focusing on the role of masculinities in various processes of nation-building in the modern world between 1800 and the 1960s.

Masculinities in Politics and War

Masculinities in Politics and War
Author: Stefan Dudink
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2004-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719065217

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In this collection, a group of historians explores the role of masculinity in the modern history of politics and war. Building on three decades of research in women's and gender history, the book opens up new avenues in the history of masculinity. The essays by social, political and cultural historians therefore map masculinity's part in making revolution, waging war, building nations, and constructing welfare states. Although the masculinity of modern politics and war is now generally acknowledged, few studies have traced the emergence and development of politics and war as masculine domains in the way this book does. Covering the period from the American Revolution to the Second World War and ranging over five continents, the essays in this book bring to light the many "masculinities" that shaped--and were shaped by--political and military modernity.

Masculinity in the Modern West

Masculinity in the Modern West
Author: Christopher E. Forth
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2008-09-16
Genre: History
ISBN:

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Across the Western world "crisis" is the word most commonly used to describe the state of masculinity today, but how new is this idea? Can we identify a time when masculinity was actually stable and secure? Masculinity in the Modern West engages with these questions by examining how traditional ideals about male physical prowess have clashed with the lifestyle changes that accompanied the rise of modern civilization since 1700. In countries like America, Britain, France, Germany and Russia, modernity bolstered male dominance in commerce, politics, technology and the world of ideas; yet images of masculinity have continued to be haunted by the negative effects that polite, cerebral, consumerist and sedentary lifestyles might have on the minds and bodies of men. Modernity thus exercises a double logic that supports male privilege while diminishing the physical difference used to legitimate that privilege. By focusing on the male body, this wide-ranging study proposes that "crises" of masculinity may be structural, and thus inescapable, features of life in our world.

Contemporary Perspectives On Masculinity

Contemporary Perspectives On Masculinity
Author: Ken Clatterbaugh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429974965

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What is social reality for men in modern society? What maintains or explains this social reality? What condition might we imagine that would be better for men? How might we achieve this better condition? These are the questions Kenneth Clatterbaugh brings to seven different visions of men in modern society considered in this newly updated edition. In clear and insightful language, Clatterbaugh surveys not just conservative, liberal, and radical views of masculinity, but also the alternatives offered by the men's rights movement, spiritual growth advocates, and black and gay rights activists. Each of these is explored both as a theoretical perspective and as a social movement, and each offers distinctive responses to the questions posed.The first edition of this book was the first to survey the range of responses to feminism that men have made as well as the first to put political theory at the center of men's awareness of their own masculinity. This new edition adds chapters on recent highly-publicized movements such at the Promise Keepers, Million Man March, and the evolution of gay men's rights. Clatterbaugh treats all views with fairness and timeliness as he develops and defends a vision of men and masculinity consistent with feminist ideals and a just society.

Performing American Masculinities

Performing American Masculinities
Author: Elwood Watson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2011-04-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0253222702

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Elwood Watson is Professor of History, African Studies, and Gender Studies at East Tennessee State University. --

Masculinities

Masculinities
Author: R. W. Connell
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745634265

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This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before. In a substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book's initial publication. He explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of mascunlinity research. Looking to the future, his new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research for understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell's account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell's classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

The History of Men

The History of Men
Author: Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0791483827

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In this collection, one of the world's leading scholars in the field of masculinity studies explores the historical construction of American and British masculinities. Tracing the emergence of American and British masculinities, the forms they have taken, and their development over time, Michael S. Kimmel analyzes the various ways that the ideology of masculinity—the cultural meaning of manhood—has been shaped by the course of historical events, and, in turn, how ideas about masculinity have also served to shape those historical events. He also considers newly emerging voices of previously marginalized groups such as women, the working class, people of color, gay men, and lesbians to explore the marginalized and de-centered notions of masculinity and the political processes and dynamics that have enabled this marginalization to occur.

Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities

Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities
Author: Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780761923695

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The handbook provides a broad view of masculinities primarily across the social sciences, but including important debates in areas of the humanities & natural sciences.

Masculinities and Literary Studies

Masculinities and Literary Studies
Author: Josep M. Armengol
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2017-02-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351862944

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As more and more work is being done in the name of the ever-growing field of study of literary representations of masculinities, it seems timely to not only review its development and main contributions to the larger field of masculinity studies, but also to look at its latest advances and new directions. These are precisely the two main aims of Masculinities and Literary Studies, which seeks to explore the conjunction between these two fields while exploring some of the latest developments and new directions resulting from such intersections. If much of the existing masculinity scholarship has traditionally been grounded in a specific discipline, this volume also seeks to provide an innovative methodological approach to the subject of literary masculinities by proving the applicability of the latest interdisciplinary masculinity scholarship - namely, sociology, social work, psychology, economics, political science, ecology, etc. - to the literary analysis, thus crossing the traditional boundary between the Social Sciences and the Humanities in new and profound ways. Presenting the latest advances in masculinity scholarship, this interdisciplinary book will appeal to gender and masculinity scholars from a wide variety of fields, including sociology and social work, psychology, philosophy, political science, and cultural and literary studies.