Unmasking Masculinity (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Autobiography

ISBN-13: 9781138808690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 302 str.

David Jackson

Opis

In this detailed investigation of 'masculine' gendered identity, first published in 1990, David Jackson uses his own personal history to look at the specific ways in which men become 'masculine'. In doing so he examines, but also offers some positive challenges to, the assumed qualities and values of growing up 'manly'. Jackson looks closely at the psychological and social forces active in his own development: relations with his father, violence at school, male banter and joking, sporting activities, boys' comics, and sexual relations. The title is a deliberate blend between life story and critical commentary that makes use of some areas of post-structuralist theory to make visible the social and emotional processes that contribute to one man's life history. With an innovative theoretical approach, this reissue will be of particular value to those interested in the social, psychological and cultural forces that have gone into the historical shaping of men and masculinities.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements;  1. Introduction  2. Other forms of critical autobiography  3. Falling apart, men’s bodies and masculine identities  4. Family background  5. Relations with my father  6. Sexuality  7. A critical language autobiography: patriarchal power, social class and language  8. ‘One of the boys’: male bonding and masculinities  9. Everyday violence and life in an all-boys’ secondary school  10. Sporting activities and masculinities  11. Boys’ comics: reading the Rover, Hotspur and Wizard, 1948-50  12. Widening the ripples: the value of critical life-history work for men;  Index

O autorze

David Jackson