The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary and critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future.
The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future.
The forty-eight chapters of the handbook take an interdisciplinary approach to a range of topics on men and masculinities related to identity, sex, sexuality, culture, aesthetics, technology and pressing social issues. The handbooks transnational lens acknowledges both the localities and global character of masculinity. A clear message in the book is the need for intersectional theorizing in dialogue with feminist, queer and sexuality studies in making sense of men and masculinities.
Written in a clear and direct style, the handbook will appeal to students, teachers and researchers in the social sciences and humanities, as well as professionals, practitioners and activists.
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"This handbook offers an indispensable survey of the meanings, forms and structures of masculinity in contemporary culture. This book is timely and relevant!"
Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity
"Covering a broad, interdisciplinary range of approaches within Masculinity Studies, this handbook provides a welcome overview of genealogies and contemporary perspectives. The ambition to decentre the location of the field in the Global North, as well as to highlight its entanglements with feminist, queer, trans-, and postcolonial studies makes the volume stand out.
Nina Lykke, Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University
"This is the text I should have had when I was a young scholar; the fact that I will reach for it today is testimony to the attention the authors pay to the historical journey of masculinity studies while remaining refreshingly relevant. The handbook offers new areas of reading masculinities from transnational, intersectional and multi-disciplinary perspectives. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in the question, whoor whatis a man?"
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor of African and Gender Studies, University of Ghana (Legon)
Introduction Part 1: Theories and perspectives
1. The
institutionalization of (critical) studies on men and masculinities:
geopolitical perspectives
2. Feminism and men/masculinities scholarship:
connections, disjunctions and possibilities
3. Hegemony, hegemonic
masculinity, and beyond
4. Pierre Bourdieu and the studies on men and
masculinities
5. Foucaults men, or what have masturbating boys and ancient
men to do with masculinity?
6. Queer theory and critical masculinity studies
7. Intersectionality
8. Postcolonial masculinities: diverse, shifting and in
flux
9. Approaching affective masculinities
10. Masculinity studies and
posthumanism Part 2: Identities and intersectionalities
11. African and black
men and masculinities
12. White masculinity
13. Men and masculinities in
contemporary East Asia: continuities, changes, and challenges
14. Disability,
embodiment and masculinities: a complex matrix
15. Trans masculinities
16.
Little boys: the significance of early childhood in the making of
masculinities
17. Young masculinities: masculinities in youth studies
18.
"Maturing" theories of aging masculinities and the diverse identity of older
men in later life
19. Men, masculinities and social class Part 3: Sex and
sexualities
20. The transformation of homosociality
21. Masculinity and
homoeroticism
22. The shifting relationship between masculinity and
homophobia
23. Multiple forms of masculinity in gay male subcultures
24.
Sexual affects: masculinity and online pornographies
25. Exploring men,
masculinity and contemporary dating practices
26. Masculinities and sex
workers Part 4: Spaces, movements and technologies
27. Men and masculinities
in migration processes
28. Locating critical masculinities theory:
masculinities in space and place
29. Rural masculinities
30. Men in caring
occupations and the postfeminist gender regime
31. Exploring fatherhood in
critical gender research
32. Reconfiguring masculinities and education:
interconnecting local and global identities
33. The coproduction of
masculinity and technology: problems and prospects
34. Men on the move:
masculinities, (auto)mobility and car cultures
35. Men, health and
medicalization: an overview Part 5: Cultures and aesthetics
36. The male
preserve thesis, sporting culture, and mens power
37. Masculinity never
plays itself: from representations to forms in American cinema and media
studies
38. Masculinities in fashion and dress
39. Masculinities, food and
cooking
40. Men, masculinities and music
41. Masculinities and literary
studies: past, present, and future directions
42. Men and masculinity in art
and art history Part 6: Problems, challenges and ways forward
43.
Masculinities, law and crime: socio-legal studies and the man question
44.
Discursive trends in research on masculinities and interpersonal violence
45.
Masculinities, war and militarism
46. Ecological masculinities: a response to
the Manthropocene question?
47. Masculinity and/at risk: the social and
political context of mens risk taking as embodied practices, performances
and processes
48. Trends and trajectories in engaging men for gender justice
Lucas Gottzén is Professor at the Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. His research takes feminist and critical perspectives on youth, gender and sexuality, particularly focusing on young and adult mens violence. His recent books include Av det känsligare slaget: Män och våld mot kvinnor (The (Un)Sensitive Kind: Men and Violence against Women, 2019), Genus (Gender, 2019, with Eriksson) and Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence (2020, co-edited with Bjųrnholt and Boonzaier).
Ulf Mellström is an anthropologist and Professor of Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He has published extensively within the areas of masculinity studies, transport- and mobility studies, gender and technology, gender and risk, engineering studies, globalization and higher education. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.
Tamara Shefer is Professor of Womens and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her scholarship has focused on intersectional gender and sexual justice, including research on critical masculinities studies. Her current work is focused on rethinking scholarship on sexualities and gender within feminist decolonial approaches. Recent co-edited books are Engaging Youth in Activist Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race (2018, with Hearn, Ratele & Boonzaier) and Socially Just Pedagogies in Higher Education: Critical Posthumanist and New Feminist Materialist Perspectives (2018, with Bozalek, Braidotti & Zembylas).
