Deconstructing Men & Masculinities, part of the Themes in Canadian Sociology Series, is a concise text that takes a contemporary approach to masculine identity politics in Canada using a sociological perspective. INDICE: Preface; Introduction: Masculinity in Crisis?; What? A Masculinity Crisis? Really?; Defining the Crisis; Perceiving the Crisis; Summary; 1: Men, Power, and Pastiche Hegemony; Chapter Objectives; Knowing Masculinity and Social Power; The Root of It All: Hegemony, Late Modernity, and Fear; Late modernity, implosion, and crisis; Summary; 2: Violence, Residue, and Pastiche Hegemony; Chapter Objectives; Masculinity, Violence, and Moral Panicking: The Usual Suspects; Violence, men, and media panics; Spectacle, Self-Violence, and Crisis Subjectivities: Project Mayhem; I. Backyard Wrestling; II. Laddism; III. Bugchasing; IV. Ultra-Endurance Running; Summary; 3: The Lost (and Found) Boys; Chapter Objectives; Finding Boys through Straightedge; Crisis, Callings, andBoyhood Masculinities; Doing the Straightedge Vocation; Summary; 4: Male Femininities, Metrosexualities, and Liquid Ubersexualities; Chapter Objectives; Real Men Disappearing in a Risk Society; Male Femininity; Liquid Ubersexuality; Ubersexuality and Body Supplementation; Summary; 5: Sporting Masculinities; Chapter Objectives; Case Studies in Residual Patriarchy; I. Sexual Assault; II. Hazing; Summary; 6: Mass-Mediating Risk Masculinities; Chapter Objectives; Three Faces of Televised Masculinity; I. Unapologetic Men: Take Off, You Hoser; II. On the Margins: Boys and Men at Risk; III. Boys in Crisis: Atavism as Spectacle; Summary; 7: The Unbearable Whiteness of Being; Chapter Objectives; Physical Cultural [Whiteness] Studies; Postcolonialism and Whiteness Studies; From Libertarianism to Transhumanism; The Triumph of the Object-Body; No More Mr. White Guy: Humanity+ in Popular Culture; Summary; Epilogue
- ISBN: 978-0-19-543076-9
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Desconocida
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés