Masculinities

Introduction to the second edition Introducing masculinities Growth of the field of study Debates and difficulties The global dimension In conclusion pt. I. Knowledge and its problems 1. The science of masculinity Rival knowledges Clinical knowledge The Oedipus complex Archetype and identity Radical psychoanalysis The male role The new social science Histories Ethnography of the other Social construction and gender dynamics Political knowledge The object of knowledge 2. Men's bodies True masculinity Machine, landscape and compromise The body inescapable Complexities of mire or blood Banquo's ghost : body-reflexive practices Forming the world 3. The social organization of masculinity Defining masculinity Gender as a structure of social practice Relations among masculinities : hegemony, subordination, complicity, marginalization Historical dynamics, violence and crisis tendencies

pt. II. Four studies of the dynamics of masculinity Introduction 4. Live fast and die young Group and context Abstract labour Violence and the state Compulsory heterosexuality for men Masculinity as collective practice Protest masculinity Other trajectories Divergent masculinities and gender politics 5. A whole new world The moment of engagement Distancing The environmental movement Encounters with feminism The moment of separation The annihilation of masculinity The moment of contestation 6. A very straight gay The moment of engagement The grain of sand : sexuality Being gay : identity and relationships Relations between masculinities Facing change Gay masculinity as project and history 7. Men of reason Constructing masculinity Constructing rationality Career and workplace The irrational Reason and change

pt. III. History and politics

8. The history of masculinity

The production of masculinity in the formation of the modern gender order

Transformations

The present moment

9. Masculinity politics

Men's politics and masculinity politics

Masculinity therapy

The gun lobby : defending hegemonic masculinity

Gay liberation

Exit politics

10. Practice and utopia

Historical consciousness

Purposes of action

Degendering and recomposing

Forms of action

Education

Prospects

Afterword : the contemporary politics of masculinity

Men's interests in contemporary patriarchy

'Backlash' politics

Neoliberalism and men's interests

The problem of violence

Masculinity politics on a world scale.

The science of masculinity

Men's bodies

The social organization of masculinity

Live fast and die young

A whole new world

A very straight gay

Men of reason

The history of masculinity

Masculinity politics

Practice and utopia.