Country Boys - Masculinity and Rural Life

About the author

Hugh Campbell is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the University of Otago, New Zealand.Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His most recent book is Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability (Penn State, 2004).Margaret Finney recently completed her Ph.D. thesis on gender and literature and is currently working at the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Summary

We see that masculinity is no less significant in rural life than in urban life. The essays in this volume offer insight into the myths and stereotypes, as well as the reality of the lives of rural men. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions investigate what it means to be a farming man, a logging man, or a boy growing up in a country town.

Product details

• Assisted by: Michael Mayerfeld (Associate Professor of Rural Sociology) Bell (Editor), Hugh (University of Otago) Campbell (Editor), Margaret (University of Otago) Finney (Editor)
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.07.2006
• EAN: 9780271028750
• ISBN: 978-0-271-02875-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 228 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 462 g
• Illustrations: 6 Illustrations; 15 Halftones, black and white
• Series: Rural Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research