This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and…
This book critically examines the significance of gender, race and sexuality to wars waged by liberal states. Drawing on original field-research with British soldiers, it offers insights into how their everyday experiences are shaped by, and shape, a politics of gender, race and…
In this detailed investigation of the social construction of sexuality, young people talk frankly about sex, gender and relationships, providing the basis for a theory of male dominated heterosexuality.
Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. This book examines 'metrosexuality', highlighting the negotiation and construction of masculinities and sexualities …
With a foreword by Brendan Gough. Modern men the world over are becoming increasingly fascinated with their image, spending more of their disposable income on beautification products and services. Indeed, many men report these as essential for employment and social progression. …
Introduction -- Context and Narrative: Speaking With and Speaking About -- Atrocity Stories about Divorce -- Personal Accounts of Relationship Breakdown -- Being Responsible: Providing for the Family -- Doing Responsibility: Caring for the Family -- Somalinimo: An Existential Cr…
"This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" fee…
This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel…
"This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" fee…
"This exciting new collection of essays explores the changing meanings of masculinity, at work, at home, in politics, and in love. Looking at fashion images of black men, heterosexuality, feminism, trade unions, the new man and families, it uncovers some of the growing uncertain…
