Masculinities in Transition [electronic resource] /
Robinson, V.author.
Hockey, J.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgements -- Meeting Men on the Move -- Masculinities in Transition -- Home and Work in Historical Context -- Continuities, Conflicts and Contradictions -- Masculinities in Prospect: The Life Course and Chronology -- Belonging: Scrutiny, Irony and Performance -- Embodiment: Masculinity and the Body -- 'I'm a suit man': Embodying Occupational Masculinities -- The Sociable Body -- The Performing Body -- Embodying Mundane and Life Course Transitions -- Masculinity and Emotionality -- Emotional Labour Revisited -- Sharing Emotion: Men's Experiences of Vulnerability -- Men and Friendship -- Emotionality and the Research Process -- Undoing Gender/Gender Undone -- References.
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.
Sociology.
Industrial sociology.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Feminist theory.
Office management.
Cultural studies.
Gender Studies.
Sociology of Work.
Social Theory.
Feminism.
Office Management.
Cultural Studies.