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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|2 pages
Theories and perspectives
chapter 1|12 pages
The institutionalization of (critical) studies on men and masculinities
chapter 2|10 pages
Feminism and men/masculinities scholarship
part 2|2 pages
Identities and intersectionalities
chapter 13|11 pages
Men and masculinities in contemporary East Asia
part 3|2 pages
Sex and sexualities
part 4|2 pages
Spaces, movements and technologies
chapter 32|10 pages
Reconfiguring masculinities and education
part 5|2 pages
Cultures and aesthetics
chapter 37|10 pages
Masculinity never plays itself
part 6|2 pages
Problems, challenges and ways forward