1st Edition

Education and Masculinities Social, cultural and global transformations

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Across media, academy and popular culture in western societies there is much talk of an implosion of the modern gender order. Education is often presented as a key site in which a crisis of masculinity is played out, and schools have become a focus for practical attempts to reconcile social and cultural transformations through the recalibration of teaching and learning, increasing male teachers... Read more

1: Social Organization of Masculinities: Modern Schooling, Reproduction and Resistance  2: Schooling, Masculinity and Class Analysis: A New Cultural Condition in a Post-colonial Society  3: Mediated Masculinities in the News: Violence, Failing Boys and Sex  4: Masculinities Across Borders: Neo-liberalism, Militarism and Sexual Health  5: Feminisation, Re-masculinization and Female Masculinity  6: Thinking Through Masculinity: Towards a Post-masculinity Theory in Educational Contexts

Biography

Chris Haywood is Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, UK.

Mairtin Mac an Ghaill is Professor of Education at Newman University College, UK.