Men and Masculinities
Subtitle: Key Themes and New Directions
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780745624662
Subjects: Men's studies; Social Science; Men; Gender Studies; Sociology; Men's Studies - Masculinity; Social Science / Men's Studies; Masculinity; Men's Studies - General; Identity
First sentence: In what might be termed the 'everyday world', those behaviours of males that are violent, dysfunctional and oppressive are frequently excused or explained away as 'natural' masculine behaviour, being understood in common-sense terms as fixed and, thus, as an inevitable aspect of social 'reality'.