Redundant Masculinities?

Employment Change and White Working Class Youth

Linda McDowell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2003
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-0585-9 (ISBN)

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Failing at school, disadvantaged in a changing labour market and characterized by policy makers as thugs, young men are said by some to be experiencing a crisis of masculinity. Linda McDowell investigates this crisis as it relates to young working-class men in the West.

Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men.

Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard.
Looks at how the labour market is changing.
Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities.
Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity.

Linda McDowell is Professor of Geography at University College, London. Her previous publications include Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City (Blackwells, 1997) and Gender, Identity and Place (1999).

List of Plates. List of Tables.

Preface.

1. Introduction: Young, White, Male and Working Class.

2. The Rise of Poor Work: Employment Restructuring and Changing Class and Gender Identities.

3. The Contemporary Crisis Of Masculinity: It's Hard To Be(Come) A Man or The Problem of/for Boys.

4. Living on The Edge: Marginal Lives In Cambridge and Sheffield.

5. Leaving School: Pathways To Employment and Further Education.

6. Actively Seeking Employment: Committed Workers and Reluctant Learners.

7. Uncertain Transitions: Accidental and Incidental Workers, The Excluded and Escape Attempts.

8. Performing Identity: Protest and Domestic Masculinities.

9. Conclusions: What Is To Be Done About Boys?

Postscript.

Appendix 1: Research Methodology.

Appendix 2: The Participants.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.6.2003
Reihe/Serie	Antipode Book Series
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	158 x 236 mm
Gewicht	562 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4051-0585-2 / 1405105852
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-0585-9 / 9781405105859
Zustand	Neuware