"J.J. Bola expõe a masculinidade como uma performance para a qual os homens são socialmente condicionados. Através de exemplos de tradições culturais e ecoando uma pluralidade de vozes, Bola desmascara diversos mitos, como aquele que proíbe os garotos de chorarem ou demonstrarem…
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This book explores ideas of masculinity in the maritime world in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. During this time commerce, politics and technology supported male privilege, while simultaneously creating the polite, consumerist and sedentary lifestyle…
"This book critically examines the way men construct and explain relationships between violence, manhood, and inequality in society"--.
"This book critically examines the way men construct and explain relationships between violence, manhood, and inequality in society"--
"This book critically examines the way men construct and explain relationships between violence, manhood, and inequality in society"-- "This book touches on all of the hot-topic issues of masculinity and violence, including gun violence, sexual assault and the #MeToo movement, …
During the 1950s and 60s in the Congo city of Kinshasa, there emerged young urban male gangs known as "Bills" or "Yankees." Modeling themselves on the images of the iconic American cowboy from Hollywood film, the "Bills" sought to negotiate lives lived under oppressive economic,…
Humankind is at the tipping point in its greatest-ever revolution - a revolution in gender relationships, gender identities and gender power. Women are confidently on the rise while men and their behaviours are under scrutiny like never before. At the core of this historic shift…
"In this book, Geir Henning Presterudstuen provides an ethnographic account of how men in the multicultural urban centres of Fiji perceive, construct and perform masculinities in the context of rapid social change. Theoretically informed by critical feminist theories, postcoloni…
