ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters in this book. The book explores key factors in the relationship between men, masculinity and processes of marginalization. Marginality can become conflated with social problems through the circulation of images of drunk and poor men, sitting on the street begging for money, or maybe immigrant men having problems being accepted and invited into the new society; men in the margins are often poor, disadvantaged, troubled and at risk. The book highlights that social and cultural changes are shaping how ethnicity is being configured, moving from categories of national heritage to that of religion. The implication is that masculinity and marginality are not always attached to particular social or cultural economic positions. The book explores how men in occupations traditionally held by women masculinize themselves through notions of emotional competence and proficiency.
