ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to draw together and cohere the arguments made across the six substantive chapters. I consider the broader implications of such findings when exploring masculinity and identity in contemporary Australia. I begin this chapter with a discussion of agency, highlighting that men’s location within postfeminist and neoliberal accounts of agency is invisible, assumed, or ignored. I argue that, theoretically, these men highlight that they do not necessarily ascribe to representations of masculinity, nor do they fit neatly in academic theorisations. Categories such as the New Lad, the New Man, the outdoor adventurer, the SNAG and others have been determined to explain the various ways of doing masculinity, yet they do not speak to these men. This chapter will consider reflexive agency more readily in the study of men and masculinity and challenge scholars to move away from categorical descriptions and theorisations that do not take agency into account.
