Marginalized Masculinities: Contexts, Continuities and Change

✍ Scribed by Chris Haywood and Thomas Johansson (eds.)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 217
• Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Across Europe we are witnessing a series of events that are drawing upon representations of men and masculinity that are rupturing the social fabric of everyday life. For example, media reports of social unrest, misogynous hate crime, religious extremism, drug trafficking and political Far Right mobilization often have been at the centre of the discussion the figure of the apathetic, disenchanted, socially excluded young man.

Marginalized Masculinities explores how men in precarious positions in different countries and social contexts understand and experience their masculinities, focusing on men who are viewed as being marginal in a range of fields in society including the family, work, the media and school. By focusing on atypical or marginal masculinities in each subfield, Haywood and Johansson provide an informed understanding of what it means to experience marginalization. Indeed, within this enlightening volume the chapters engage with the issue of whether it is necessary to name ‘a’ dominant masculinity in order to make sense of and understand the nature of marginalized masculinity.

This insightful title will be of interest to researchers, undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as Gender Studies, International Studies, Comparative Studies and Men Studies.

Chris Haywood is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK.

Thomas Johansson is a Professor of Pedagogy specializing in Child and Youth Studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction

Chris Haywood and Thomas Johansson

Part one: Crisis, Risk and Socialization

Chapter One: Becoming a ‘real boy’: constructions of boyness in early childhood education

Anette Hellman & Ylva Odenbring

Chapter Two: Being at Risk or Being a Risk? Marginalized Masculinity in Contemporary Social Work

Marcus Herz

Part Two: Transformations of Work and Unemployment

Chapter Three: ‘Crack in the Ice’: Marginalization of Young Men in Contemporary Urban Greenland

Firouz Gaini

Chapter Four: Marginalized masculinities and exclusion in the new low-skill service sector in Sweden

Peter Håkansson

Chapter Five: Masculinity, socio-emotional skills and marginalization among emergency medical technicians　

Morten Kyed

Chapter Six: Male Migrant Workers and the Negotiation of ‘Marginalized’ Masculinities in Urban China

Xiaodong Lin

Part Three: Marginalization, Bodies and Identity

Chapter Seven: Derailed Self-Constructions: Marginalization and Self-construction in Young Boys’ Accounts of Well-being.

Niels Ulrik Sørensen and Jens Christian Nielsen

Chapter Eight: Doped Manhood: Negotiating fitness doping and masculinity in an online community

Jesper Andreasson and Thomas Johansson

Part Four: Rethinking Marginalization

Chapter Nine: Epistemologies of Difference: Masculinity, marginalisation and young British Muslim men

Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood

Chapter Ten: Marginalized adult ethnic minority men in Denmark: The case of Aalborg East

Ann-Dorte Christensen, Jeppe Fuglsang Larsen & Sune Qvotrup Jensen

Conclusion

Thomas Johansson and Chris Haywood

✦ Subjects

Masculinity Studies; Gender Studies