Authors:Sren Erv, Thomas Johansson, Soren Ervo,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: masculinities, moulding, mounding, bodies, bending
Number of Pages: 327
Published: 2003-09
List price: $124.95
ISBN-10: 1840148039
ISBN-13: 9781840148039

The contributing authors have sought to integrate a gender perspective into their respective fields without isolating it from other theoretical accounts. The chapters attempt to employ insights from feminist work and gender studies in general, yet insist on criticizing monolithic accounts of masculinity and elaborating on more differentiated, historically and socially embedded accounts of men’s lives and their construction of masculinities. The volume is the result of interdisciplinary workshops focusing on questions of male sexuality, the male body and masculine representations - primar