Masculinities in transition
By: Victoria Robinson, Jenny Hockey
Contributors: Hockey, Jennifer Lorna
Series: Genders and sexualities in the social sciences
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780230201590
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Men; Families; Masculinity; Work; Identity (Philosophical concept)
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Meeting men on the move; title: Transitions: Masculinities and  transition; title: Home and work in historical context; title: Continuities, conflicts and contradictions; title: Masculinities in prospect: The life course and chronology; title: Belonging: scrutiny, irony and performance; title: Embodiment: Masculinity and the body; title: 'I'm a suit man': embodying occupational masculinities; title: The sociable body; title: The performing body; title: Embodying mundane and life course transitions; title: Emotionality, masculinity and gender: Masculinity and emotionality; title: Emotional labour revisited; title: Sharing emotion: men's experience of vulnerability; title: Men and friendship; title: Emotionality and the research process; title: Undoing gender/gender undone.