Gender, Culture and Society
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Gender, Culture and Society

Contemporary Femininities and Masculinities

  1. 312 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gender, Culture and Society

Contemporary Femininities and Masculinities

About this book

This text offers a wide-ranging account of the dynamic relationship between gender, culture and society. Incorporates feminist theory, theories of men and masculinity, and post-structuralism, as well as recent global events, ensuring a highly topical and relevant discussion.

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Information

Publisher
Red Globe Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780333987841
eBook ISBN
9780230216273
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Gender Studies
Index
Social Sciences
addressed 
current 
third-wave 
feminism 
and 
queer 
theory 
that 
is 
attempting
to 
go 
beyond 
the 
limiting 
effects 
of 
the 
polarity 
between 
the 
biological 
and
the 
cultural 
in 
relation 
to 
sexed 
identities, 
alongside 
theorists 
of 
posthu-
man 
bodies 
questioning 
how 
cultural 
meaning 
is 
constructed 
in 
relation 
to
bodies 
and 
selves 
(Halberstam 
and 
Livingston, 
1995). 
Simultaneously,
masculinity 
theorists 
in 
exploring 
a 
media-led 
gaze 
on 
male 
bodily
practices 
– 
technologies 
of 
looking 
– 
as 
spectacular 
performance, 
in
response 
to 
the 
global 
fragmentation 
of 
social 
relations, 
read 
this 
new
cultural 
trend 
alternatively 
as 
evidence 
of 
the 
discursive 
emergence 
of 
the
new 
(heterosexual) 
man 
or 
the 
stabilization 
of 
an 
existing 
hegemonic
sex/gender 
order 
(Edwards, 
1997; 
Nixon, 
1996).
Representing 
Engendered 
Bodies
171

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Tables
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Gender Relations in Context
  10. 1 Approaching GenderFeminism, Men’s Studies and the Cultural Turn
  11. 2 Fragmenting Family Life: Beyond Maternal Femininities and Paternal Masculinities
  12. 3 In and Out of Labour: Beyond the Cult of Domesticity and Breadwinners
  13. 4 Interplaying Gender and Age in Late Modernity
  14. 5 Shifting Gender Connections: Sexuality, Late Modernity and Lifestyle Sex
  15. 6 Representing Engendered Bodies: Producing the Cultural Categories ‘Men’ and ‘Women’
  16. 7 Media Masculinities and Femininities: Sporting Genders
  17. 8 Men and Women of the World: Emerging Representations of Global Gender Relations
  18. 9 Gender on the Move: The Search for a New Sex/Gender Order in Late Modernity
  19. Conclusion
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Name Index
  23. Subject Index