Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface to the second edition -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Dislocating masculinity -- An anthropological investigation of masculinity -- Comparative ethnographies of masculinity -- Towards dislocating masculinity -- 1. Dislocating masculinity: Gender, power and anthropology -- Masculinities and 'the macho man' -- Competing masculinities -- Disempowering masculinity -- Studying men: old anthropology but new men's studies? -- Motivated masculinities? -- Gendering the body

Postmodernism and the politics of gender -- Taking apart masculinity -- Locating masculinities -- Notes -- 2. Missing masculinity?: Prostitutes' clients in Alicante, Spain -- The ethnographic context -- Missing masculinity? -- Gross generalizations? -- Double personalities -- The ethnographic context -- Dissecting clients: hierarchies of 'manhood'/personhood -- Marital potency -- Gross generalizations revisited -- Where now? -- Note -- 3. A broken mirror: Masculine sexuality in Greek ethnography -- Residence rules and gendered contexts -- Men and their sexualities -- Homosexualities

A digression on violation -- Definitions that control and diminish -- Phallic power and its limitations -- Monastic celibacy -- Of 'free spirits' and 'domesticated men' -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4. Variant masculinities, variant virginities: Rethinking 'honour and shame' -- Attributes and things: a virgin's hymen -- Competitions and the control of people -- Subversive women and subordinate masculinities -- A virgin, or what? -- The rhetoric and practice of wedding-night defloration -- Divisible people, gendered identities and hegemonic ideals -- Notes

5. 'We're here, we're queer, and we're not going shopping': Changing gay male identities in contemporary Britain -- Setting the scene -- Identity, the individual, and the emergence of the gay man -- Hierarchy and gender: sustaining an ideology of sexual difference -- The politicization of the gay man -- Conclusions -- Postscript -- Notes -- 6. Gendered identities and gender ambiguity among travestis in Salvador, Brazil -- Male women or female men? -- Rethinking sex and gender -- contexts of prostitution in Salvador -- Dislocated dichotomies -- 'Sins of the flesh': domains of 'deviance'

'The life of the saints' -- Compromising positions? -- Notes -- 7. Pandora unbound: A feminist critique of Foucault's History of Sexuality -- Time and monumentality -- The constitution and political construction of households -- Sexuality, socialization and power -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 8. Men don't go to the moon: Language, space and masculinities in Zimbabwe -- The shaping of 'Shona' masculinities -- Men in their spaces -- Becoming a man in women's spaces -- Boys 'outside': experimentation and discovery -- Celebrating masculinities: lovers' discourse under the blanket

Language, space and masculinities

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