Understanding masculinities : social relations and cultural arenas

Abstract

Part 1 Social relations of masculinities: feckless fathers - masculinities and British state masculinities and families schooling masculinities at work - multiple masculinities/multiple workplaces men, masculinity and challenge for long-term unemployment. Part 2 Cultural arenas of masculinities: masculinity, power and identity one thing leads to another - drinking, fighting and working class masculinities sporting masculinities - gender relations and body are you sitting comfortably? men's story telling, masculinities, prison culture and violence from little fairy boy to the compleat destroyer - subjectivity and transformation in biography of Mike Tyson empowering men to disempower themselves - heterosexual masculinities, HIV and contradictions of anti-oppressive education. Part 3 Critical evaluations of masculinities: reading black masculinities is masculinity dead? a critique of concept of masculinity/masculinities.