Men's Lives, Sixth Edition - Softcover

Kimmel, Michael S.; Messner, Michael A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205379028 ISBN 13: 9780205379026

Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, 2003

Synopsis

Edited by two of the field's most prominent researchers, this best-selling reader on men and masculinity contains the most current articles available. Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader takes a life-course perspective, using the idea that men (as well as women) are “gendered” and that this gendering process is a central experience for men. The sixth edition includes 18 new readings, on topics like: making a name for yourself growing up as a “bad boy”; college men and drinking; contemporary conceptions of “macho”; male workers in a feminized occupation (clerical workers); “girl-watching” in the workplace; sex tourism; masculinities and globalization.

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From the Back Cover

Edited by two of the field's most prominent researchers, this best-selling reader on men and masculinity contains the most current articles available.

Organized around themes that define masculinity, this reader takes a life-course perspective, using the idea that men (as well as women) are “gendered” and that this gendering process is a central experience for men. The authors explore how working class men, men of color, gay men, older men, younger men, and boys construct different versions of masculinity.

The sixth edition includes 18 new readings, on topics like: making a name for yourself growing up as a “bad boy”; college men and drinking; contemporary conceptions of “macho”; male workers in a feminized occupation (clerical workers); “girl-watching” in the workplace; sex tourism; masculinities and globalization.

About the Author

Michael S. Kimmel is Professor of Sociology at SUNY at Stony Brook.  He is the author of Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (HarperCollins, 2008) which was featured on the Today Show, Good Morning America and featured on over one hundred radio and newspaper and blog reviews.  His other books include Changing Men (1987), Men’s Lives(8th edition, 2009) Against the Tide: Profeminist Men in the United States, 1776-1990 (1992), The Politics of Manhood (1996), Manhood: A Cultural History (1996, 10th anniversary second edition, 2006), and The Gendered Society (3rd edition, 2008).  He co-edited The Encyclopedia on Men and Masculinities (2004) and Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities (2004).  He is the founder and editor of Men and Masculinities, the field’s premier scholarly journal, a book series on Gender and Sexuality at New York University Press, and edited the Sage Series on Men and Masculinities.  He lectures extensively in corporations and on campuses in the U.S. and abroad.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife and co-author, Amy Aronson, and their 10 year old son, Zachary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0205379028
• ISBN 13: 9780205379026
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 608