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List of contents
Introduction
Chris Haywood and Thomas Johansson
Part one: Crisis, Risk and Socialization
Chapter One: Becoming a 'real boy': constructions of boyness in early childhood education
Anette Hellman & Ylva Odenbring
Chapter Two: Being at Risk or Being a Risk? Marginalized Masculinity in Contemporary Social Work
Marcus Herz
Part Two: Transformations of Work and Unemployment
Chapter Three: 'Crack in the Ice': Marginalization of Young Men in Contemporary Urban Greenland
Firouz Gaini
Chapter Four: Marginalized masculinities and exclusion in the new low-skill service sector in Sweden
Peter Håkansson
Chapter Five:
Masculinity, socio-emotional skills and marginalization among emergency medical technicians Morten Kyed
Chapter Six: Male Migrant Workers and the Negotiation of 'Marginalized' Masculinities in Urban China
Xiaodong Lin
Part Three: Marginalization, Bodies and Identity
Chapter Seven: Derailed Self-Constructions: Marginalization and Self-construction in Young Boys' Accounts of Well-being.
Niels Ulrik Sørensen and Jens Christian Nielsen
Chapter Eight: Doped Manhood: Negotiating fitness doping and masculinity in an online community
Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson
Part Four: Rethinking Marginalization
Chapter Nine: Epistemologies of Difference: Masculinity, marginalisation and young British Muslim men
Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood
Chapter Ten: Marginalized adult ethnic minority men in Denmark: The case of Aalborg East
Ann-Dorte Christensen, Jeppe Fuglsang Larsen & Sune Qvotrup Jensen
Conclusion
Thomas Johansson and Chris Haywood
Summary
This volume explores how men in precarious positions in different countries and social contexts understand and experience their masculinities, focusing on men who are viewed as being marginal in a range of fields in society including the family, work, the media, and school.
