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THE MEN AND THE BOYS THE MEN AND THE BOYS R.W. Connell Polity Copyright © R.W. Connell 2000 Chapter 7 © R.W. Connell, M.D. Davis and G.W. Dowsett 2000 The right of R.W. Connell to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published in 2000 by Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd Editorial office: Polity Press 65 Bridge Street Cambridge CB2 1UR, UK Marketing and production: Blackwell Publishers Ltd 108 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 1JF, UK All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. ISBN 0-7456-2632-7 ISBN 0-7456-2633-5 (pbk) A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Set in 11/13 pt Bembo by DOCUPRO, Sydney Printed in Great Britain by T.J. International, Padstow, Cornwall To Kylie Contents PART 1 EXAMINING MASCULINITIES 1 1 Debates about men, new research on masculinities 3 Issues about men and boys 3 The new social research on masculinity 6 Key conclusions of recent research 9 2 New directions in theory and research 15 Current debate: Concepts of gender and approaches to masculinity 16 The gender relations approach 23 Conceptualizing masculinities 29 Agenda for research 32 PART 2 GLOBALIZATION 37 3 Masculinities and globalization 39 The world gender order 40 The repositioning of men and the remaking of masculinities 43 Globalizing masculinities 46 Masculinity politics on a world scale 52 • vii viii • THE MEN AND THE BOYS 4 Globalization and men’s bodies 57 Understanding men’s bodies 57 Imperialism and men’s bodies 60 Contemporary globalization and men’s bodies 62 Implications for gender reform 65 PART 3 BODIES AND DESIRES 67 5 An iron man 69 Being a champion 70 Soft path, hard goal 74 The body and the self 76 Wanting to win: The ideology of competitive sport 80 Reflections 83 6 ’I threw it like a girl’: Some difficulties with male bodies 86 Looking at jelly: Adam Singer 87 Burning up the body: Tip Southern 94 Reflections 99 7 Man to man: Homosexual desire and practice among working-class men (written with M.D. Davis and G.W. Dowsett) 102 The working-class setting 104 The social framework of male-to-male sex 108 Sexual practice 114 Desire and identity 118 The HIV/AIDS epidemic 122 Reflections 126 PART 4 PRACTICALITIES 129 8 Cool guys, swots and wimps 131 Getting into trouble 133 Knowing where you stand 136 Over the hump 139 Dry sciences 141 Reading feminism 143 Reflections 145
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