YOUNG MEN AND MASCULINITIES: GLOBAL CULTURES AND INTIMATE LIVES.
Series: GLOBAL MASCULINITIES
Publisher: ZED BOOKS
Published: 2006
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 248
Description: In this book Victor J Seidler, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about masculinities, turns his attention to the lives of young men and their understandings of themselves as gendered beings. By contextualizing their experiences and subjectivities within a rapidly globalizing world, Seidler pays particular attention to the impact of the global media. How does the mass circulation of images of men's bodies, desires and sexualities affect their self-perception and behaviours, and how are these images framed within particular histories, cultures and traditions? Questioning univ.