Men talk
Subtitle: stories in the making of masculinities
By: Jennifer Coates.
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Subjects: Men -- Language.; Discourse analysis, Narrative.
Description: "Men Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to answer these questions and illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Coates examines spontaneous conversations involving all-male groups, ranging from garage mechanics on a break and carpenters at the pub after work, to university academics chatting at work after hours, as well as a variety of mixed groups.

The focus of the book is the stories that occur within these conversations."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index.
Table of contents: title: "We was playing naked football the other night" : introduction; title: "Good story!" : the formal characteristics of male narrative; title: "So I thought 'Bollocks to it'" : men, stories, and masculinities; title: "Bad as my mate" : stories in sequence; title: "She'd made sardines in aspic" : women's stories, men's stories, and the construction of gender; title: "I'm quite good at Mexican food" : men's narratives in mixed conversation; title: "Still in shock weren't you darling" : masculinity and the heterosexual couple; title: "There are problems" : men's talk and contemporary masculinities.