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Spaces of masculinities / edited by Bettina van Hoven and Kathrin Hörschelmann

Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xix, 252 pages) : illustrations, map
Additional Creators
Hoven, Bettina van and Hörschelmann, Kathrin, 1971-
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Table; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The men and the boys: bankers, burger makers and barmen; 3 The logic and limitations of male working-class culture in a resource hinterland; 4 Masculinity and rurality; 5 The maladies of manhood in the Buzerplatz: Czech military officers in 'transition'; 6 Transient masculinities: Indian IT-professionals in Germany; 7 Globalization and masculine space in India and Fiji; 8 Latin American urban masculinities: going beyond 'the macho' and 9 Ethnic violence and crises of masculinity: Lebanon in comparative perspective10 Mobilizing the rhetoric of defence: exploring working-class masculinities in the divided city; 11 Deviant masculinities: representations of neo-fascist youth in eastern Germany; 12 Shifting spaces of masculinity: from Carisbrook to the MCG; 13 'Man-breasts': Spaces of sexual difference, fluidity and abjection; 14 Tattoos in prison: men and their pictures on the edge.
Summary
Drawing on a variety of geographical research projects, the central concern of this book is to highlight the significance of research about masculinity in sociological and geographical work dealing with constructions of gender.
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ISBN
0203507258 (electronic bk.)
9780203507254 (electronic bk.)
0415306965 (hb)
9780415306966
1280289570
9781280289576
9786610289578
6610289573
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Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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