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Zusatztext Nigel Edley is a leading scholar of masculinities. Here he brings together his insights from 25 years of man-watching in a compelling book that provides an excellent introduction to the field. Highly recommended for anyone who wants to understand men and masculinity today. Rosalind Gill! Professor of Cultural and Social Analysis! City! University of LondonMen and Masculinity: The Basics is a great read - superbly connecting academia to everyday life. Edley takes us skillfully through a wealth of cases! research reports and anecdotes! opening sites of tremendous controversy and contention! leaving us with a deeper understanding - and even some optimism for cultural change. - Michael Bamberg!Professor of Psychology! Clark University Informationen zum Autor Nigel Edley is a senior lecturer in social psychology at Nottingham Trent University! UK. He has published extensively in the field of masculinity studies! including Men in Perspective: Practice! Power and Identity (with Margaret Wetherell). Zusammenfassung Men and Masculinity: The Basics is an accessible introduction to the academic study of masculinity which outlines the key ideas and most pressing issues concerning the field today. Providing readers with a framework for understanding these issues, it explores the ways that Masculinity has been understood in the Social Sciences and Humanities to date. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Part 11. Man-watching2. Coming to terms with menand masculinityPart 23. The male body4. Men and work5. Men and fatherhood6. Male sexuality7. Male violenceGlossaryReferences
