The Men and the Boys

The Men and the Boys attempts to connect questions about masculinity with globalization and world society; rethink men's gender in relation to bodies and sexuality; and connect the new perspectives on masculinity with practical issues of health, education, and peacemaking.

R. W. Connell is Professor of Education at the University of Sydney.

PART 1 EXAMINING MASCULINITIES

1

(37)

Debates about men, new research on masculinities

3

(12)

Issues about men and boys

3

(3)

The new social research on masculinity

6

(3)

Key conclusions of recent research

9

(6)

New directions in theory and research

15

(22)

Current debate: Concepts of gender and approaches to masculinity

16

(7)

The gender relations approach

23

(6)

Conceptualizing masculinities

29

(3)

Agenda for research

32

(5)

PART 2 GLOBALIZATION

37

(30)

Masculinities and globalization

39

(18)

The world gender order

40

(3)

The repositioning of men and the remaking of masculinities

43

(3)

Globalizing masculinities

46

(6)

Masculinity politics on a world scale

52

(5)

Globalization and men's bodies

57

(10)

Understanding men's bodies

57

(3)

Imperialism and men's bodies

60

(2)

Contemporary globalization and men's bodies

62

(3)

Implications for gender reform

65

(2)

PART 3 BODIES AND DESIRES

67

(62)

An iron man

69

(17)

Being a champion

70

(4)

Soft path, hard goal

74

(2)

The body and the self

76

(4)

Wanting to win: The ideology of competitive sport

80

(3)

Reflections

83

(3)

`I threw it like a girl': Some difficulties with male bodies

86

(16)

Looking at jelly: Adam Singer

87

(7)

Burning up the body: Tip Southern

94

(5)

Reflections

99

(3)

Man to man: Homosexual desire and practice among working-class men (written with M.D. Davis and G.W. Dowsett)

102

(27)

The working-class setting

104

(4)

The social framework of male-to-male sex

108

(6)

Sexual practice

114

(4)

Desire and identity

118

(4)

The HIV/AIDS epidemic

122

(4)

Reflections

126

(3)

PART 4 PRACTICALITIES

129

(68)

Cool guys, swots and wimps

131

(17)

Getting into trouble

133

(3)

Knowing where you stand

136

(3)

Over the hump

139

(2)

Dry sciences

141

(2)

Reading feminism

143

(2)

Reflections

145

(3)

Teaching the boys

148

(29)

Schools and gender

150

(5)

Schools as agents in the making of masculinities

155

(6)

Pupils as agents, school as setting

161

(3)

Educational strategies in work with boys

164

(8)

The process of change

172

(5)

Men's health

177

(20)

Research evidence on men's health

178

(1)

Sex differences in health

179

(3)

The health of specific groups of men

182

(2)

How some masculinizing practices damage bodies

184

(4)

Attempts to make men's bodies healthy

188

(4)

The `cradle to grave' health disadvantage of men

192

(2)

Reflections

194

(3)

PART 5 CHANGING MASCULINITIES

197

(30)

The politics of change in masculinity

199

(13)

The historical moment

201

(1)

Men's interests

202

(3)

Purposes

205

(3)

A men's movement?

208

(4)

Arms and the man: The question of peace

212

(15)

Why war?

212

(1)

The problem of men and violence

213

(3)

Implications of masculinity research

216

(4)

Global patterns

220

(3)

Peace strategies and masculinities

223

(4)

Acknowledgments and sources

227

(4)

References

231

(16)

Index

247

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