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Insecure Masculinity

On the Impact of Societal Ideals of Masculinity on Men's Mental Health in Jamaica

Julia Faulhaber (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VII, 61 Seiten

2022 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH (Verlag)
9783658395896 (ISBN)

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This work focuses on the relationship between childhood socialization, masculinities, and young men's coming of age in contemporary Jamaica. The author elucidates social, cultural, and historical dimensions of young men's lifeworlds and theorizes on the potential trajectories of being emotionally well and/or un-well vis-à-vis gendered normative orders of growing up and relating to others within and beyond kinship and courtship relations. Based on fieldwork, this book elaborates on the extent to which social discourses of masculinity and men's personal experiences of their own and other men's mental health are reproduced in Jamaica. Faulhaber places her work in contemporary psychological and medical anthropology and aims to overcome the separation of psyche, body, and environment that is often common in psychotherapy, psychiatry, and health sciences. The author embarks on this important endeavour through critical and self-reflexive ethnography and the analysis of hegemonic narratives and discourses in media and popular culture. In juxtaposition and extension to other global mental health initiatives, this work highlights that well-being, affliction and suffering can barely be grasped scientifically as objectively measurable mental states of the individual.

lt;b>About the author
Julia Faulhaber is a PhD student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Her research focus is on Medical and Psychological Anthropology.

Introduction.- Research, methods and position.- The Jamaican Social Dilemma.- Masculinity and (In)Vulnerability: Representing Toughness.- Mental Health and Emotion.- Reflection and Conclusion.- Bibliography.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	BestMasters
Zusatzinfo	VII, 61 p. Textbook for German language market.
Verlagsort	Wiesbaden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	106 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Anthropology • ethnography • Jamaica • Masculinity • Mental Health • participant observation
ISBN-13	9783658395896 / 9783658395896
Zustand	Neuware