ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Masculinity Studies provides a contemporary critical and scholarly overview of theorizing and research on masculinities as well as emerging ideas and areas of study that are likely to shape research and understanding of gender and men in the future.

The forty-eight chapters of the handbook take an interdisciplinary approach to a range of topics on men and masculinities related to identity, sex, sexuality, culture, aesthetics, technology and pressing social issues. The handbook’s transnational lens acknowledges both the localities and global character of masculinity. A clear message in the book is the need for intersectional theorizing in dialogue with feminist, queer and sexuality studies in making sense of men and masculinities.

Written in a clear and direct style, the handbook will appeal to students, teachers and researchers in the social sciences and humanities, as well as professionals, practitioners and activists.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction

Mapping the field of masculinity studies

part 1|2 pages

Theories and perspectives

chapter 2|10 pages

Feminism and men/masculinities scholarship

Connections, disjunctions and possibilities

chapter 8|11 pages

Postcolonial masculinities

Diverse, shifting and in flux

part 2|2 pages

Identities and intersectionalities

chapter 12|8 pages

White masculinity

chapter 13|11 pages

Men and masculinities in contemporary East Asia

Continuities, changes, and challenges

chapter 14|11 pages

Disability, embodiment and masculinities

A complex matrix

chapter 15|9 pages

Trans masculinities

chapter 16|9 pages

‘Little boys’

The significance of early childhood in the making of masculinities

chapter 17|9 pages

Young masculinities

Masculinities in youth studies

part 3|2 pages

Sex and sexualities

part 4|2 pages

Spaces, movements and technologies

chapter 28|10 pages

Locating critical masculinities theory

Masculinities in space and place

chapter 29|9 pages

Rural masculinities

chapter 32|10 pages

Reconfiguring masculinities and education

Interconnecting local and global identities

chapter 33|10 pages

The coproduction of masculinity and technology

Problems and prospects

chapter 34|9 pages

Men on the move

Masculinities, (auto)mobility and car cultures

chapter 35|11 pages

Men, health and medicalization

An overview

part 5|2 pages

Cultures and aesthetics

chapter 37|10 pages

Masculinity never plays itself

From representations to forms in American cinema and media studies

chapter 39|10 pages

Masculinities, food and cooking

chapter 40|11 pages

Men, masculinities and music

chapter 41|9 pages

Masculinities and literary studies

Past, present, and future directions

part 6|2 pages

Problems, challenges and ways forward

chapter 43|10 pages

Masculinities, law and crime

Socio-legal studies and the ‘man question’

chapter 46|11 pages

Ecological masculinities

A response to the Manthropocene question?

chapter 47|10 pages

Masculinity and/at risk

The social and political context of men’s risk taking as embodied practices, performances and processes