| Description |
x, 236 pages ; 24 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Male orders |
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Male orders.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-230) and index. |
| Contents |
Dislocating masculinity : gender, power and anthropology / Andrea Cornwall and Nancy Lindisfarne -- Missing masculinity? prostitutes' clients in Alicante, Spain / Angie Hart -- A broken mirror : masculine sexuality in Greek ethnography / Peter Loizos -- Variant masculinities, variant virginities : rethinking 'honor and shame' / Nancy Lindisfarne -- 'We're here, we're queer, and we're not going shopping' : changing gay male identities in contemporary Britain / David Forrest -- Gendered identities and gender ambiguity among travestis in Salvador, Brazil / Andrea Cornwall -- Pandora unbound : a feminist critique of Foucault's History of sexuality / Lin Foxhall -- Men don't go to the moon : language, space and masculinities in Zimbabwe / Chenjerai Shire -- An economy of affect : objectivity, masculinity and the gendering of police work / Bonnie McElhinny -- The 'White Negro' revisited : race and masculinities in south London / Les Back -- 'Real true boys' : moulding the cadets of imperialism / Helen Kanitkar -- The paradoxes of masculinity : some thoughts on segregated societies / Deniz Kandiyoti. |
| Summary |
Offers a radical critique of much of the recent writing on and by men, raising important questions about embodiment, agency and the varieties of masculinity. |
| Subject |
Men -- Psychology -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Masculinity -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Androcentrism.
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Feminist criticism.
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Men -- Psychology -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Androcentrism. (OCoLC)fst00808573
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Feminist criticism. (OCoLC)fst00922759
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Masculinity. (OCoLC)fst01011027
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Men -- Psychology.
(OCoLC)fst01016021
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies. (OCoLC)fst01423769
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| Added Author |
Cornwall, Andrea, 1963-
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Lindisfarne, Nancy, 1944-
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| ISBN |
0415079411 |
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9780415079419 |
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041507942X (pbk.) |
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9780415079426 (pbk.) |
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9780203393437 |
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0203393430 |
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