How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are
their aspirations, their fears? How do they feel about their own
masculinity? About style, 'race', homophobia? About football? This
book examines aspects of 'young masculinities' that have become
central to contemporary social thought, paying attention to
psychological issues as well as to social policy concerns. Centring
on a study involving in-depth exploration, through individual and
group intererviews, the authors bring to light the way boys in the
early years of secondary schooling conceptualise and articulate
their experiences of themselves, their peers and the adult world.
The book includes discussion of boys' aspirations and anxieties,
their feelings of pride and loss. As such, it offers an unusually
detailed set of insights into the experiential world inhabited by
these boys - how they see themselves, how girls see them, what they
wish for and fear, where they feel their 'masculinity' to be
advantageous and where it inhibits other potential experiences. In
describing this material, the authors explore questions such as the
place of violence in young people's lives, the functions of
'hardness', of homophobia and football, boys' underachievement in
school, and the pervasive racialisation of masculine identity
construction. Young Masculinities will be invaluable to researchers
in psychology, sociology, gender and youth studies, as well as to
those devising social policy on boys and young men. STEPHEN FROSH
is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of
London, and previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Vice
Dean in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic,
London. He is the author of numerous academic papers and several
books, including For and Against Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference:
Masculinity and Psychoanalysis, Identity Crisis: Modernity,
Psychoanalysis and the Self and The Politics of Psychoanalysis. He
is joint author, with Danya Glaser, of Child Sexual Abuse and
co-editor with Anthony Elliott of Psychoanalysis in Context. ANN
PHOENIX is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Open University. Her
books include Standpoints and Differences (with Karen Henwood and
Chris Griffin), Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in
Europe (with Helma Lutz and Nira Yuval-Davies), and Black, White or
Mixed Race? (with Barbara Tizard). ROB PATTMAN is Lecturer in
Sociology at the University of Botswana. He has taught sociology in
sixth form colleges and institutions of higher education in Britain
and southern Africa, and published articles on whiteness, gender
identities, sex and AIDS education and social theory.
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