Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US - Between Bodies and Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

This book is about ways to understand masculinity as systemic and corporeal, structural and performative all at once. It argues that the tension between an understanding of "masculinity" in the singular and "masculinities" in the plural poses a problem that can better be understood in relation to a concomitant tension: between systems on the one hand, and bodies on the other - between abstract structures such as patriarchy, kinship or even language, and the various concrete forms taken by gendered, individuated corporeality. The contributions collected here investigate how masculinities become apparent, how they take shape and what systemic functions they have. What, they ask, are the relations between the abstract and corporeal, metaphorical and metonymic manifestations of masculinity? How are we to understand masculinity as a simultaneously systemic and corporeal, performative concept?

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Global Masculinities
Release date:	September 2017
First published:	2017
Editors:	Stefan Horlacher • Kevin Floyd
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	243
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-50819-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-50819-9
Barcode:	9783319508191

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