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Across a rich terrain of empirical and theoretical trajectories,
the concept of military masculinity (now understood in its plural
as military masculinities) has been a significant conceptual tool
in both feminist international relations (IR) and in critical men
and masculinities studies scholarship. The concept has helped us to
unpack the relationships between gender, war, and militarism,
including how military standards function in the production of
wider normative, hegemonic manliness. As such, military
masculinities has been a rewarding tool for many scholars who take
a critical approach to the study of war and the military. This
edited volume advances an emerging curiosity within accounts of
military masculinities. This curiosity concerns the silences
within, and disruptions to, our well-established and
perhaps-too-comfortable understandings of, and empirical focal
points for, military masculinities, gender, and war. The
contributors to this volume trouble the ease with which we might be
tempted to synonymize militaries, war, and a neat, 'hegemonic'
masculinity. Taking the disruptions, the asides, and the silences
seriously challenges the common wisdoms of military masculinities,
gender, and war in productive and necessary ways. Doing so
necessitates a reorientation of where, to whom, and for what we
look to understand the operation of gendered military power. The
chapters were originally published in a special issue of Critical
Military Studies.
We need to have a conversation about boys. There has never been a
more important time to consider how we are raising the men of the
future. This is an invitation for parents of boys, as well as
anyone who cares about the young males in their lives. Parents of
daughters, aunts, uncles, grandparents, teachers, community
leaders; this is a discussion that we all need to participate in.
Whether we are expecting a baby boy, parenting young men, or are
simply interested in effecting positive change, many of us are
asking how we can raise boys who challenge the status quo and are
empowered to stand up for what is right. Confronting toxic
masculinity and delving into the hot-button issues affecting boys
today, from education to sexism, power to consent, and mental
health, Raising Boys Who Do Better looks at bringing up boys in the
era of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter. This book is an absolute
must-read for those who want to help nurture the boys in their
lives to grow up into compassionate, kind, healthy and successful
men.
Treating Trauma in Transgender People is the only treatment guide
available focused on treating the symptoms of trauma in transgender
people. People will buy this book because it has complicated
content about difficult topics, but is written in an approachable
and nonjudgmental style with illustrative case vignettes. A reader
should choose Treating Trauma in Transgender People over similar
books because it is clear and concise, and offers data-driven
rationale for treatment recommendations.
Non-Binary Gender Identities examines how non-binary people
discover, adopt, and negotiate language in a variety of social
settings, both offline and online. It considers how language, in
the form of gender-neutral pronouns, names, and labels, is a
central aspect of identity for many and has been the subject of
much debate in recent years. Cordoba captures the psychological,
social, and linguistic experiences of non-binary people by
illustrating the multiple, complex, and evolving ways in which
non-binary people use language to express their gender identities,
bodies, authenticity, and navigate social interactions - especially
those where their identities are not affirmed. These findings shed
light on the gender and linguistic becomings of non-binary people,
a pioneering theoretical framework developed in the book, which
reflects the dynamic realities of language, subjectivities, and the
materiality of the body. Informed by these findings, the text
offers recommendations for policy makers and practitioners,
designed to facilitate gender-related communication and decrease
language-related distress on non-binary people, as well as the
general population. This important book advances our understanding
of non-binary gender identities by employing innovative
methodologies - including corpus-based research and network
visualisation - furthering and developing theory, and yielding
original insights. It is essential reading for students and
academics in social psychology and gender studies, as well as
anyone interested in furthering their understanding of non-binary
gender identities.
- explores education in a prison setting from the perspective of
the learners themselves. - examines how prisoners conceive their
experiences in their own words. - adds further weight to existing
'beyond employability' discourse, which looks at 'other' or 'soft'
outcomes of educational experiences in the prison setting.
This book uses the emerging and cutting-edge area of leisure
research to highlight the importance of sexuality and sexual
activity and its relevance to leisure studies. It brings to the
fore some complex issues associated with this topic using a range
of substantive, epistemological, theoretical and methodological
approaches. Drawing on international scholarship, the book examines
sexuality from multiple, and at times, competing directions,
exploring the continuum of sex from work through to carnal
pleasure, and across specific sexual practices including BDSM,
pornography, stripping, and sex work. Drawing on critical,
feminist, queer, and post theoretical perspectives, the book charts
a new direction for leisure studies and sex research, including
diverse understandings of leisure practice, sex positivity, fringe
and deviant sex practices. Critically, the book moves beyond merely
establishing sex as a leisure pursuit to focusing on the compelling
and complex intersections between sexuality and leisure. This is
fascinating reading for any student or researcher with an interest
in leisure, sexuality, gender, cultural studies or sociology.
Animal Enthusiasms explores how human-animal relationships are
conceived, developed, and carried out in rural Pakistani Muslim
society through an examination of practices such as pigeon flying,
cockfighting, and dogfighting. Based on two years of ethnographic
fieldwork carried between 2008 and 2018 in rural South Punjab, the
book examines the crucial cultural concept of shauq (enthusiasm)
and provides critical insight into changing ways of life in
contemporary Pakistan. It tracks the relationships between men
mediated by non-human animals and discusses how such relationships
in rural areas are coded in complex ways. The chapters draw on
debates around transformations of animal activities over time, the
changing forms of human-animal intimacy and their impact on
familial relationships, and rural Punjabi values attached to the
performance of masculine honour. The book will be of interest to
scholars of anthropology, multi-species ethnography, gender and
masculinity studies, and South Asian studies.
Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk
about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak
about, and understand themselves. Based on the author's experience
of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range
of theory, it identifies a disconnect between academic discourses
on "masculinity," based as these are on theoretical positions that
describe the world from a position of "outsidership," and the
reality of most men's experience-or, the way in which men see
themselves. With an erroneous view of men dominating the airwaves,
most men simply fail to engage, leaving the mistaken conceptions of
masculinity to circulate and allowing policies to develop that
treat men as predators and aggressors. Presenting insights into
masculinity drawn from experience with young men drawn toward
military life, Masculinity from the Inside seeks to address the
gulf between scholarly understandings of men and men's own
understandings of themselves. It will therefore appeal to scholars
and students of sociology, cultural studies, and gender studies, to
anyone with interests in contemporary masculinity and the question
of what it means to be a man.
Taking the notion of embodiment as a starting point, this volume
maps the interconnecting relationships between religion, gender and
sexuality. The chapters highlight how the body - its location, the
narratives that surround it, its movement and negotiations - is
central to understanding these multifaceted relationships. The
contributors recognise the ways in which gender and sexuality are
crucial to how we embody religion and encourage a more complex and
nuanced understanding of embodied religion. The material is
organised according to three central themes: (1) the relationship
between the religious and the secular; (2) power, regulation and
resistance; and (3) the symbolism of gendered bodies. Cutting
across a range of disciplinary perspectives, Embodying Religion,
Gender and Sexuality will be relevant to students of sociology,
anthropology, gender and sexuality studies, theology and religious
studies.
In this updated edition of the bestselling classic, author John
Eldredge reminds men they need adventure in their lives . . . in their
work, in their love, and their spiritual lives. He reveals how God
designed men to be dangerous. Simply look at the dreams and desires
written in the heart of every boy: to be a hero, to be a warrior, and
to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men today have
abandoned these dreams and desires—aided by a Christianity that feels
like nothing more than pressure to be a "nice guy." It is no wonder
that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and
bored to death.
In this provocative six-session video study (DVD/digital video
downloads sold separately), John Eldredge explains how God wants to
heal these deep wounds from earlier years that take away a man's
confidence and—in some cases—his masculinity. He shows that deep within
the heart of every man is a longing for a battle to fight, an adventure
to live, and a beauty to rescue—because that is how God created him. It
is time for the church to reclaim these wounded warriors. It is time to
give men permission to be what God designed them to be—dangerous,
passionate, alive, and free!
Sessions include:
- The Heart of a Man
- The Wound
- A Battle to Fight
- An Adventure to Live
- A Beauty to Rescue
- A Band of Brothers
This book will be the first collection that offers an overview and
case studies around understandings and manifestations of penises
and phalluses in the early twenty-first century. It examines how
penises and phalluses are experienced and represented, drawing on
examples from pornography, stripping, music video, film, surgery,
and comedy. The penis-along with its twin the phallus-has been used
to symbolise strength, fertility, and power but also bestiality,
violence, and the 'savage'. It has been worshipped, feared, and
mocked. With contributing authors deploying conceptual frameworks
based in philosophy, cultural studies, gender studies, affect
theory, film theory, feminist theory, art theory, sociology,
history, medical anthropology and media studies, this volume will
appeal to a broad range of scholars and all who are interested in
bodies, genitals, gender, and contemporary cultures.
This book explores the ways in which linguistic variation and
complex social practices interact toward the formation of male
interactional identities in a sports club in Dublin, illustrating
the affordances of studying sporting contexts in contributing to
advancing sociolinguistic theory. Adopting a participant-informed
ethnographic approach, the book examines both the social
interactional contexts within the club and the sociopragmatic and
sociophonetic features which contribute to the different
performances of masculinity in and outside the club. The volume
focuses particularly on the linguistic analysis of humor and its
multifunctional uses as a means of establishing solidarity and
social ties but also aggression, competitiveness, and status within
the social world of this club as well as similar such clubs across
Ireland. The book's unique approach is intended to complement and
build on existing sociolinguistic studies looking at linguistic
variation in groups by supporting quantitative data with
ethnographically informed insights to look at social meaning in
interaction from micro-, meso-, and macro-levels. This book will be
of particular interesting to graduate students and scholars in
sociolinguistics, language, gender, and sexuality, and language and
identity.
A Critical Reflexive Approach to Sex Research is a methodologically
focused book that offers rich insights into the, often secret,
subjectivities of men who pay for sex in South Africa. The book
centres on the interview context, outlining a critical reflexive
approach to understanding how knowledge is co-produced by both the
interviewer and the participant in research about sex. By attending
to the complex dynamics of the research interview, this book
examines the historic and contemporary relationship between sex
work, race, coloniality, sexuality, masculinity, femininity,
whorephobia, and discourses of disease and contagion. It draws on
both empirical interview data and Huysamen's entries in her
research journal to offer a unique approach to building critical
reflexivity into every phase of the research process. The critical
reflexive approach uses an assemblage of poststructuralist and
psychoanalytic theories and practices which together provide tools
to interrogate how interview dynamics facilitate, shape, and
restrain the meaning that is produced within the interview. This
book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in
researching sex work from intersectional and feminist decolonial
perspectives as it probes critical questions surrounding how men
make meaning of paying for sex, their motivations for doing so, and
how they negotiate their identities in relation to this stigmatised
practice. It provides a unique offering to researchers working on
sexual, secret, and stigmatised topics, providing them with a
specific set of tools and resources to incorporate reflexivity into
their own sex research. Encouraging the reader to look widely to
draw on an array of theories and frameworks across disciplines,
this is fascinating reading for students and researchers in
critical psychology, research methods, and the social sciences.
The first international book with a focus on LGBTQ issues in sport
in Europe Presents results of the first online survey on LGBTQ
experiences in sport in Europe (N=5.524) and additional qualitative
data of the ERASMUS+ project OUTSPORT. Provides detailed insight
into the situation of LGBTQ people in sport and inclusion policy in
European countries by using first hand quantitative and qualitative
empirical data from international academics. Provides an overview
about activism and advocacy of LGBTQ and sport in Europe Written by
European experts in accessible language
It is generally accepted that men commit more crimes than women.
The widespread acceptance of this view is based primarily on the
number of convictions with most jurisdictions reporting
considerably fewer incarcerated women/girls than men/boys. This
manuscript argues however that decisions made by the various
stakeholders that play a role in the incarceration of men are
inherently gendered. These decisions are based on patriarchal
perceptions and stereotypes related to the familial roles of men
and women, and by extension their motivations or offending. Few
studies have sought to explore the nature of these perceptions, and
the effect these may have on incarceration patterns. Indeed, this
form of inquiry remains absent from the research agenda of
Caribbean criminologists. Using qualitative data from Barbados,
this book analyses the extent to which these factors are taken into
consideration not only by the police and members of the judiciary,
but by examining the gendered decisions made by shop managers and
proprietors in cases involving shoplifting, it seeks to analyse the
extent to which these factors are taken into consideration before
incidents reach the justice system. Critically, this book seeks
also to juxtapose these assumptions against testimony from men
incarcerated at Her Majesty's Prison. The large proportion of males
in Caribbean prisons when compared to their female counterparts
necessitates an investigation into the factors that may contribute
to differential treatment as they move through the justice system.
Using data from Barbados, the present study seeks to fill this
need.
This book grapples with the potential impacts of collective trauma
in war-rape survivors' families. Drawing on inter-ethnic and
inter-generational participatory action research on reconciliation
processes in post-conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina, the author examines
the risk that female survivors of war-related sexual crimes,
now-mothers, will breed hatred and further division in the
post-conflict context. Showing how the historical trauma of sexual
abuse among survivors affects the ideas, perceptions, behavioural
patterns and understandings of the ethnic and religious 'Other' or
perpetrator, the book also considers the influence of such trauma
on other attitudes rarely addressed in peacebuilding programmes,
such as notions of naturalised gender-based violence, cultural
scripts of sexuality and support for dangerous or violent aspects
of the patriarchal social order. It thus seeks to sketch proposals
for a curriculum of peacebuilding that takes account of the legacy
of war rape in survivors' families and the impact of trauma
transmission. As such, Trauma Transmission and Sexual Violence will
appeal to scholars of politics, sociology and gender studies with
interests in peace and reconciliation processes and war-related
sexual violence.
This book examines evolving pop culture representations of sex and
relationships from the 1970s onwards, to demonstrate parallels
between the strength of the feminist movement and positive
portrayals of women's sexuality. In charting changes in the sex and
relationship content of women's magazines over time, this analysis
reveals that despite surface-level changes in sexual and
relationship content, the underlying paradigm of hetero-monogamy
remains unchanged. Despite a seemingly more diverse, empowered and
liberated sexuality for women in contemporary magazines, in
reality, such feminist rhetoric masks an enduring model of
sexuality, which rests on women's sexual and emotional maintenance
of male partners and their own self-objectification and
self-surveillance. Where substantive changes can be identified,
they rise and fall in tandem with feminism. By demonstrating this
empirical relationship between cultural products and feminist
organising, the book validates an assumption that has rarely been
tested: that a feminist social milieu improves cultural narratives
about sexuality for women. Sex, Feminism and Lesbian Desire builds
on ground-breaking feminist texts such as Susan Faludi's Backlash
to present an empirically focused, comprehensive study
interrogating changes in content over the lifetime of women's
magazines. By charting the representation of sex and relationships
in two women's magazines-Cosmopolitan and Cleo-since the 1970s
through an analysis of over 6,500 magazine pages and 1,500
articles, this timely work interrogates-and ultimately
complicates-the apparent linear progression of feminism. This book
is suitable for researchers and students in women's and gender
studies, queer studies, LGBT studies, media studies, cultural
studies and sociology.
God does not intend for us to fight our battles alone. Our battles
do not disqualify us from his grace-no matter what they are. The
two CORE for Men studies-Redeemed and Transformed-each feature five
raw and real video stories (DVD/video streaming sold separately) of
men who have fought with feelings of isolation and
disqualification. Through these personal stories of brokenness and
redemption, you and your group will be encouraged to step out of
shame and into your own God-shaped stories. Sessions and
Contributors include: Called (Mariano Rivera, pitcher for New York
Yankees) Redemption (Kyle Oxford, tattoo artist) Sons (Tommy Green,
lead singer for the metal/hardcore band Sleeping Giant) Restoration
(Robert Irving III, music director for Miles Davis) Purpose (Tom
Paterson, master strategic thinker) Brought to you by the men
behind the organization Promise Keepers, the passion behind the
CORE for Men studies is to create spaces where men have permission
to be real-where men discover they are not alone with the kind of
doubts and fears they face everyday. CORE is a biblical expression
of solidarity that will lead you back to a God who's in the
business of turning brokenness into forgiveness and pain into a new
and fulfilling purpose. Designed for use with the Redeemed: Turning
Brokenness into Something Beautiful Video Study available on DVD or
streaming video, sold separately.
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