ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of how men and masculinities have featured in youth studies historically and more recently. Youth studies developed as a gender-blind field where youth cultural activities and youth transitions were modelled over young (white) men. This started to change with Angela McRobbie’s critique in the 1980s. Contemporary research on young masculinities has predominantly responded to representations of young men as both ‘at risk’ and ‘a risk’. The chapter also points to emerging areas in the field, e.g., research on men’s body image and body work as well as on generational changes in masculinities and gender relations.
