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Originally published in 1994, and now a feminist classic, Dislocating Masculinity offers a penetrating critique of writing on and by men. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists, linguists and historians, it raises important comparative questions about how gender operates, addressing issues of embodiment, agency, gender inequality and the variety of masculine styles.
List of contents
1. Introduction, (Andrea Cornwall & Nancy Lindisfarne)
2. Dislocating Masculinity: Gender, Power and Anthropology, (Andrea Cornwall & Nancy Lindisfarne)
2 Missing Masculinity? Prostitutes’ Clients in Alicante, Spain, (Angie Hart)
3. A Broken Mirror: Masculine Sexuality in Greek Ethnography, (Peter Loizos)
4. Variant Masculinities, Variant Virginities: Rethinking ‘Honour 82and Shame’, (Nancy Lindisfarne)
5. ‘We’re here, we’re queer, and we’re not going shopping’: Changing Gay Male Identities in Contemporary Britain, (David Forrest)
6. Gendered Identities and Gender Ambiguity Among Travestis in Salvador, Brazil, (Andrea Cornwall)
7. Pandora Unbound: A Feminist Critique of Foucault’s History of Sexuality, (Lin Foxhall)
8. Men don’t go to the Moon: Language, Space and Masculinities in Zimbabwe, (Chenjerai Shire)
9. An Economy of Affect: Objectivity, Masculinity and the Gendering of Police Work, (Bonnie McElhinny)
10. The ‘White Negro’ Revisited: Race and Masculinities in South London, (Les Back)
11 ‘Real True Boys’: Moulding the Cadets of Imperialism, (Helen Kanitkar)
12. The Paradoxes of Masculinity: Some Thoughts on Segregated Societies, (Deniz Kandiyoti)
About the author
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Anthropology and International Development in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex.
Nancy Lindisfarne long taught Anthropology at SOAS, University of London and is now a visual artist and blogger on sexism, class and violence.
Summary
Originally published in 1994, and now a feminist classic, Dislocating Masculinity offers a penetrating critique of writing on and by men. Bringing together anthropologists, sociologists, linguists and historians, it raises important comparative questions about how gender operates, addressing issues of embodiment, agency, gender inequality and the variety of masculine styles.
