Masculinities under Neoliberalism

Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris, Nancy Lindisfarne, Andrea Cornwall, Frank G. Karioris, Nancy Lindisfarne

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781786994196
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781783607679
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Higher Education
• Index: Social Sciences

Neoliberalism has had a radical impact on the lived, gendered experiences of people around the world. But while the gendered dimensions of neoliberalism have already received significant scholarly attention, the existing literature has given little consideration to men's identities and experiences. Building on the work of Cornwall and Lindisfarne's landmark text Dislocating Masculinity, this collection provides a fresh perspective on gender dynamics under neoliberalism.

Bringing together a series of short, readable case studies drawn from new ethnographic fieldwork, its subjects range from the experiences of working-class men in Putin's Russia to colonial masculinities in Southern Rhodesia, and from young British Muslim men to amateur footballers in Jamaica.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• About the editors
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the contributors
• Preface
• 1. Introduction: Masculinities Under Neoliberalism
• 2. Masculinities and the Lived Experience of Neoliberalism
• 3. In Search of ‘Stability’: Working-Class Men, Masculinity and Wellbeing in Contemporary Russia
• 4. ‘Filial Son’, Dislocated Masculinity and the Making of Male Migrant Workers in Urban China
• 5. Taking the Long View: Attaining and Sustaining Masculinity Across the Life Course in South India
• 6. Desperate Markets and Desperate Masculinities in Morocco
• 7. Neutralized Bachelors, Infantilized Arabs: Between Migrant and Host – Gendered and Sexual Stereotypes in Abu Dhabi
• 8. Windsurfers, Capoeiristas and Musicians: Brazilian Masculinities in Transnational Scenarios
• 9. ‘I Must Stand Like A Man’: Masculinity in Crisis in Post-War Sierra Leone
• 10. Fatherhood and Intergenerational Struggles in the Construction of Masculinities in Huambo, Angola
• 11. Masculinity, Marriage and the Bible: New Pentecostalist Masculinities in Zimbabwe
• 12. From Big Man to Whole Man: Making Moral Masculinities at the YMCA
• 13. (Dis)Locating Masculinities: Ethnographic Reflections of British Muslim Young Men
• 14. Football Field, Bar, and Street Corner: Sports, Space, and Masculinities in Rural Jamaica
• 15. Ducks, Dogs, and Men: ‘Natural’ Masculinities in New Zealand Duck Hunting
• 16. (Dis)Locations of Homosociality: Men in an All-Male University Residence Hall
• 17. Homosociality and Heterosex: Patterns of Intimacy and Relationality Among Men in the London ‘Seduction Community’
• Index