Gender, Culture and Society: Contemporary Femininities and Masculinities

ISBN-13: 9780333987834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 312 str.

Mairtin Mac an Ghaill; Chris Haywood

Opis

This text offers a wide-ranging account of the dynamic relationship between gender, culture and society. Incorporates feminist theory, theories of men and masculinity, and post-structuralism, as well as recent global events, ensuring a highly topical and relevant discussion.

Spis treści

Introduction: Gender Relations in Context.- Approaching Gender: Feminism, Men's Studies and the Cultural Turn.- Fragmenting Family Life: Maternal Femininities and Paternal Masculinities.- In and Out of Labour: Beyond the Cult of Domesticity and Breadwinners.- Interplaying Gender and Age in Late Modernity.- Sporting Genders: Media Masculinities and Femininities.- Shifting Gender Connections: Sexuality, Late Modernity and Lifestyle Sex.- Representing Engendered Bodies: Producing the Cultural Categories 'Men' and 'Women'.- Men and Women of the World: Emerging Representations of Global Gender Relations.- Gender on the Move: The Search for a New Sex/Gender Order in Late Modernity.- Conclusion.

 

O autorze

MÁIRTIN MAC AN GHAILL is based in the Department of Education at the University of Newcastle, UK. He is the author of The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling (1994) and Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities (1999) and he edited Understanding Masculinities (1996), all published by the Open University Press. He is the co-author of A Sociology of Men and Masculinities.

CHRIS HAYWOOD is also based in the Department of Education at the University of Newcastle, UK. He is a Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies and the Degree programme Director of the undergraduate degree Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. He is the co-author of A Sociology of Men and Masculinities.