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cover global masculinities Michael S. Kimmel Men face common issues – the balance between work and family, fatherhood, defining masculinity in a globalising economy, health and reproduction, sexuality and violence. They are confronting these issues all over the world in very different contexts and are coming up with different priorities and strategies to address them. This new international series provides a vehicle for understanding this diversity, and reflects the growing awareness that analysis of mascu- linity will be greatly impoverished if it remains dominated by a European/North American/Australian matrix. A number of regional and thematic cross-cultural volumes are planned. Michael S. Kimmel is a well-known educator on gender issues. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals, including the New York Times Book Review, Harvard Business Review, The Nation and Psychology Today, where he was a contribut- ing editor and columnist on male–female relationships. His teaching examines men’s lives from a pro-feminist perspective. He is national spokesperson for the National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) in the United States. Robert Morrell (ed.), Changing Men in Southern Africa Bob Pease and Keith Pringle (eds.), A Man’s World? Changing Men’s Practices in a Globalized World Frances Cleaver (ed.), Masculinities Matter! Men, Gender and Development Lahoucine Ouzgane (ed.), Islamic Masculinities Adam Jones (ed.), Men of the Global South: A Reader about the author Victor Jeleniewski Seidler is Professor of Social Theory in the Depart- ment of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has written widely in the field of gender, particularly in relation to men and masculinities, as well as in social theory, critical theory, phil- osophy and ethics. His most recent book is Transforming Masculinities: Men, Cultures, Bodies, Power, Sex and Love (Routledge, ). young men and masculinities global cultures and intimate lives VICTOR J . SEIDLER ZED BOOKS London & New York In memory of my brother Michael, October – April and remembering my older brother Johnny, July – May Young Men and Masculinities was published in by Zed Books Ltd, Cynthia Street, London , , and Room , Fifth Avenue, New York, , www.zedbooks.co.uk Copyright © Victor J. Seidler The right of Victor J. 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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data available Hb (Zed) Pb Hb Pb contents preface young men, global cultures and intimate lives one introduction: young men and masculinities two masculinities, histories, cultures and religions three listening, speaking and learning four questioning adam: men, power and love five rethinking fatherhood six masculinities, bodies and emotional life seven bodies, desires, pleasures and love eight authority, identities, bodies and intimacy nine bodies, ethics, fears and desires ten friends, risks and transgressions eleven risk, fears, race and belongings twelve risk, self-harm, abuse and control thirteen young men, bodies, sexualities and health f ourteen young men’s sexual and reproductive health fifteen young men, heroes, violence and conflict notes bibliography index ‘Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It’s what I’ve never seen before that I recognize.’ Diane Arbus, Revelations ‘Focusing on the person, the self, and the emotions – all topics difficult to probe in traditional ethnographic frameworks – is a way of getting to the level at which cultural differences are most deeply rooted: in feelings and in complex indigenous reflections about the nature of persons and social relationships.’ George E. Marcus and Michael J. Fischer, Anthropology as Cultural Critique preface young men, global cultures and intimate lives families Intimate relations and family life have undergone enormous changes in the West since the s, to the degree that in the new millennium we remain unsure about how to think about them. With globalisation and new technologies of mass communication these uncertainties have been reflected in urban and, increasingly, in rural settings globally. The issue is not simply to decide who is to be included within the sphere of family and intimate relations, but to account for the in- creased rate of separation and divorce, and to register the fact that families across heterosexual and gay relationships have become so much more complex. We can no longer assume, as we still did in Europe and the United States in the s, that there is a norm of the ‘nuclear family’ against which other family forms are to be judged and evaluated. This assumption was part of a pervasive ethic of normalisation within the positivist traditions that prevailed in the social sciences whereby if, for example, you grew up in a family with a single mother or where a father had died, you learnt to keep quiet about it at school, wanting at some level to feel that your family could somehow be ‘normal’. This vision of ‘normal’ heterosexual ‘socialisation’ has haunted studies
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