Young Men and Masculinities : Global Cultures and Intimate Lives.


Victor J. Seidler
Bok Engelsk 2006 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
London : : Zed Books Ltd, , 2006.
Omfang
1 online resource (257 p.)
Opplysninger
Description based upon print version of record.. - contents; preface; introduction: young men and masculinities; masculinities, histories, cultures, and religions; listening, speaking and learning; questioning adam: men, power and love; rethinking fatherhood; masculinities, bodies and emotional life; bodies, desires, pleasures and love; authority, identities, bodies and intimacy; bodies, ethics, fears and desires; friends, risks and transgressions; risk, fears, race and belonging; risk, self-harm, abuse and control; young men, bodies, sexualties and health; young men's sexual and reproductive health; young men, heroes, violence and conflict. - notesbibliography; index;. - 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
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ISBN
1842778064. - 1842778072. - 9781842778067. - 9781842778074

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