1st Edition

Studying Men and Masculinities

By David Buchbinder Copyright 2013
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

The late-twentieth-century anxiety about a ‘crisis in masculinity’ still persists today, particularly in English-speaking cultures. Studying Men and Masculinities offers an engaging and comprehensive overview of masculinity. Drawing on a wide range of cultural practices and texts from different genres and media, David Buchbinder examines the notion of patriarchy and the challenges to... Read more

Preface.  Acknowledgments.  1. The End of Masculinity?  2. Thinking (Through) Gender  3. Doing/Undoing Gender  4. Regarding Patriarchy  5. Troubling Patriarchy  6. (Em)Bodying Masculinity  7. Post-Apocalyptic Masculinities.  Endnotes. References.

Biography

David Buchbinder currently holds a Personal Chair in Masculinities Studies at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. His research interests include gender and masculinities studies, and literary and cultural studies. He has published Masculinities and Identities and Performance Anxieties: Re-presenting Men.

"Studying Men and Masculinities […] provides a highly accessible introduction to the developing pro-feminist field of critical masculinities studies, which is fortunately being increasingly welcome by Women’s and Gender Studies programs at universities."

— Mostafa Abedinifard, University of Alberta, Comparative Literature Program, in The Journal of Men’s Studies