UNDERSTANDING MASCULINITIES

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Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction MLiirtin Mac an Ghaill Part 1 Social relations of masculinities

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1 'Feckless fathers': masculinities and the British state Sallie Westwood 2 Masculinities and families Christine Heward

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Schooling masculinities Christian Haywood and Ma'irtin Mac an Ghaill

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'Men' at 'work': multiple masculinities/multiple workplaces David Collinson and Jeff Hearn

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Men, masculinity and the challenge of long-term unemployment Sara Willott and Christine Griffin

Part 2 Cultural arenas of masculinities

Freedom: poem for a secular Passover feast Johnson 6 Masculinity, power and identity Nigel Edley and Margaret Wetherell

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7 'One thing leads to another': drinking, fighting and workingclass masculinities Joyce E. Canaan 8

Sporting masculinities: gender relations and the body Andrew Parker

9 Are you sitting comfortably?Men's storytelling, masculinities, prison culture and violence Richard Thurston 10 From 'little fairy boy' to 'the compleat destroyer': subjectivity and transformation in the biography of Mike Tyson Tony Jefferson

1 1 'Empowering men to disempower themselves': heterosexual masculinities, HIV and the contradictions of anti-oppressive education Peter Redman Part 3 Critical evaluations of masculinities

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12 Reading black masculinities David Marriott

13 Is masculinity dead? A critique of the concept of masculinity/ masculinities Jeff Hearn Author index Subiect index