Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies

The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future.

The forty-eight chapters of the handbook take an interdisciplinary approach to a range of topics on men and masculinities related to identity, sex, sexuality, culture, aesthetics, technology and pressing social issues. The handbook's transnational lens acknowledges both the localities and global character of masculinity. A clear message in the book is the need for intersectional theorizing in dialogue with feminist, queer and sexuality studies in making sense of men and masculinities.

Written in a clear and direct style, the handbook will appeal to students, teachers and researchers in the social sciences and humanities, as well as professionals, practitioners and activists.

List of contents

Introduction  Part 1: Theories and perspectives  1. The institutionalization of (critical) studies on men and masculinities: geopolitical perspectives  2. Feminism and men/masculinities scholarship: connections, disjunctions and possibilities  3. Hegemony, hegemonic masculinity, and beyond  4. Pierre Bourdieu and the studies on men and masculinities  5. Foucault's men, or what have masturbating boys and ancient men to do with masculinity?  6. Queer theory and critical masculinity studies  7. Intersectionality  8. Postcolonial masculinities: diverse, shifting and in flux  9. Approaching affective masculinities  10. Masculinity studies and posthumanism  Part 2: Identities and intersectionalities  11. African and black men and masculinities  12. White masculinity  13. Men and masculinities in contemporary East Asia: continuities, changes, and challenges  14. Disability, embodiment and masculinities: a complex matrix  15. Trans masculinities  16. 'Little boys': the significance of early childhood in the making of masculinities  17. Young masculinities: masculinities in youth studies  18. "Maturing" theories of aging masculinities and the diverse identity of older men in later life  19. Men, masculinities and social class  Part 3: Sex and sexualities  20. The transformation of homosociality  21. Masculinity and homoeroticism  22. The shifting relationship between masculinity and homophobia  23. Multiple forms of masculinity in gay male subcultures  24. Sexual affects: masculinity and online pornographies  25. Exploring men, masculinity and contemporary dating practices  26. Masculinities and sex workers  Part 4: Spaces, movements and technologies  27. Men and masculinities in migration processes  28. Locating critical masculinities theory: masculinities in space and place  29. Rural masculinities  30. Men in caring occupations and the postfeminist gender regime  31. Exploring fatherhood in critical gender research  32. Reconfiguring masculinities and education: interconnecting local and global identities  33. The coproduction of masculinity and technology: problems and prospects  34. Men on the move: masculinities, (auto)mobility and car cultures  35. Men, health and medicalization: an overview  Part 5: Cultures and aesthetics  36. The 'male preserve' thesis, sporting culture, and men's power  37. Masculinity never plays itself: from representations to forms in American cinema and media studies  38. Masculinities in fashion and dress  39. Masculinities, food and cooking  40. Men, masculinities and music  41. Masculinities and literary studies: past, present, and future directions  42. Men and masculinity in art and art history  Part 6: Problems, challenges and ways forward  43. Masculinities, law and crime: socio-legal studies and the 'man question'  44. Discursive trends in research on masculinities and interpersonal violence  45. Masculinities, war and militarism  46. Ecological masculinities: a response to the Manthropocene question?  47. Masculinity and/at risk: the social and political context of men's risk taking as embodied practices, performances and processes  48. Trends and trajectories in engaging men for gender justice

About the author

Lucas Gottzén is Professor at the Department of Child and Youth Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden. His research takes feminist and critical perspectives on youth, gender and sexuality, particularly focusing on young and adult men's violence. His recent books include Av det känsligare slaget: Män och våld mot kvinnor ('The (Un)Sensitive Kind: Men and Violence against Women', 2019), Genus ('Gender', 2019, with Eriksson) and Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence (2020, co-edited with Bjørnholt and Boonzaier).
Ulf Mellström is an anthropologist and Professor of Gender Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He has published extensively within the areas of masculinity studies, transport- and mobility studies, gender and technology, gender and risk, engineering studies, globalization and higher education. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies.
Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her scholarship has focused on intersectional gender and sexual justice, including research on critical masculinities studies. Her current work is focused on rethinking scholarship on sexualities and gender within feminist decolonial approaches. Recent co-edited books are Engaging Youth in Activist Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race (2018, with Hearn, Ratele & Boonzaier) and Socially Just Pedagogies in Higher Education: Critical Posthumanist and New Feminist Materialist Perspectives (2018, with Bozalek, Braidotti & Zembylas).

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The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary and critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future.

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"This handbook offers an indispensable survey of the meanings, forms and structures of masculinity in contemporary culture. This book is timely and relevant!"
Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity

"Covering a broad, interdisciplinary range of approaches within Masculinity Studies, this handbook provides a welcome overview of genealogies and contemporary perspectives. The ambition to decentre the location of the field in the Global North, as well as to highlight its entanglements with feminist, queer, trans-, and postcolonial studies makes the volume stand out.
Nina Lykke, Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University

"This is the text I should have had when I was a young scholar; the fact that I will reach for it today is testimony to the attention the authors pay to the historical journey of masculinity studies while remaining refreshingly relevant. The handbook offers new areas of reading masculinities from transnational, intersectional and multi-disciplinary perspectives. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in the question, ‘who—or what—is a man?’"
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor of African and Gender Studies, University of Ghana (Legon)

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"This handbook offers an indispensable survey of the meanings, forms and structures of masculinity in contemporary culture. This book is timely and relevant!"
Jack Halberstam, author of Female Masculinity

"Covering a broad, interdisciplinary range of approaches within Masculinity Studies, this handbook provides a welcome overview of genealogies and contemporary perspectives. The ambition to decentre the location of the field in the Global North, as well as to highlight its entanglements with feminist, queer, trans-, and postcolonial studies makes the volume stand out.
Nina Lykke, Professor Emerita, Gender Studies, Linköping University

"This is the text I should have had when I was a young scholar; the fact that I will reach for it today is testimony to the attention the authors pay to the historical journey of masculinity studies while remaining refreshingly relevant. The handbook offers new areas of reading masculinities from transnational, intersectional and multi-disciplinary perspectives. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in the question, 'who-or what-is a man?'"
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor of African and Gender Studies, University of Ghana (Legon)

Product details

• Authors: Lucas (Stockholm University Gottzen, Lucas Mellstroem Gottzen, Lucas Mellstrom Gottzen, Lucas Gottzén, Marinette Grimbeek, Ulf Mellstroem, Ulf (Karlstad University Mellstroem, Ulf Mellström, Tamara Shefer, Tamara (University of Western Cape Shefer
• Assisted by: Lucas Gottzen (Editor), Lucas Gottzén (Editor), Ulf Mellstrom (Editor), Ulf Mellström (Editor), Tamara Shefer (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781032176345
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3217634-5
• No. of pages: 544
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories