Young men and masculinities : global cultures and intimate lives /
In this book Victor J Seidler, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about masculinities, turns his attention to the lives of young men and their understandings of themselves as gendered beings. By contextualizing their experiences and subjectivities within a rapidly globalizing worl...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York : New York :
Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2006.
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| Series: | Global masculinities series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | In this book Victor J Seidler, one of the leading contributors to the growing debate about masculinities, turns his attention to the lives of young men and their understandings of themselves as gendered beings. By contextualizing their experiences and subjectivities within a rapidly globalizing world, Seidler pays particular attention to the impact of the global media. How does the mass circulation of images of men's bodies, desires and sexualities affect their self-perception and behaviours, and how are these images framed within particular histories, cultures and traditions? Questioning univ. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848131149 1848131143 1281259055 9781281259059 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350224155 |