Masculinities in Local Contexts | Structural, Individual, and Cultural Interdependencies

Dean Lusher

ISBN 10: 3639037103 / ISBN 13: 9783639037104

Editore: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

Masculinities in Local Contexts | Structural, Individual, and Cultural Interdependencies | Dean Lusher | Taschenbuch | Englisch | VDM Verlag Dr. Müller | EAN 9783639037104 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Codice articolo 101805498

Riassunto:

Knowledge of the terms sex and gender has important political, health and equity considerations. This book investigates a macro-structural social theory of gender (Connell, 1995), which proposes a relational and hierarchical conception of gender, and explores it in local social contexts. As the theory of gender is primarily concerned with differing configurations of masculinity, most notably hegemonic masculinity (a dominative form of masculinity), this book focuses on males and their relations with one another in secondary schools and all-male elite-level sporting teams. Specifically, this book overcomes a major theoretical impasse by recognizing that the ideology of supremacy of a dominative masculinity is necessarily interdependent with the structural relations of power and culturally defined norms of masculinity. Relations between masculinities are reframed into specific social network hypotheses, and quantitatively examined using statistical models for social networks. Hierarchies of masculinities that are misogynist, homophobic and violent can occur, though local context is particularly important and alternative non-dominative masculinities are possible.

Informazioni sull?autore: Dean S. Lusher, PhD. Studied Psychology at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Currently Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne exploring the theory and application of statistical models for social networks.

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Titolo: Masculinities in Local Contexts | Structural...
Casa editrice: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Taschenbuch
Condizione: Neu