Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (Male Orders) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041507942X ISBN 13: 9780415079426

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

This book draws upon anthropology, feminism and postmodernism to offer a penetrating and challenging study of how gender operates. The book offers a radical critique of much of the recent writing on and by men and raises important questions about emodiment, agency and the variety of masculine styles.

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Review

"Cornwall and Lindisfarne make quite convincing criticisms that should be carefully considered by all scholars concerned with the deconstruction of men and masculinity."-"Men and Masculinities This is . . . the first collection of anthropology articles to address the question of masculinity both theoretically and ethnographically. As such, it is to be warmly welcom ." . . a timely volume with an important introduction by the editors which will set the terms of the debate on issues of men and masculinity for some time to come. The arguments should be accessible to advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students, and the book will be useful in anthropology and gender courses alike."-Sherry B. Ortner, University of Michigan "The authors of this quite impressive and path-setting collection of articles are primarily British writers...The clearly written and focused studies are mostly products of a London University Research Group and a seminar series. They are not formula-produced studies, but are shaped editorially so as to be easily comparable, and of great value for all classes in gender studies...the contributors have taken a giant step beyond inappropriate generalizing and abstracting in masculinist studies."-William G. Doty, "Journal of Men's Studies

Synopsis

Much recent writing on and by men suggests that male prerogatives are being sustained and lent authority by the new discipline of "men's studies". "Dislocating Masculinity" brings together a critical set of papers on men and masculinities which raise important new questions for gender studies - in settings which range from imperial India to rural Zimbabwe to the gay community in London. "Hegemonic masculinity" is deconstructed to reveal the complexities of gendered difference, and the familiar oppositions of male/female and masculinity/feminity are analyzed - including the assumption that "a man is a man" everywhere, and means the same thing everywhere. Lindsfarne has also published "Battered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society" (CUP, 1991).

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041507942X
• ISBN 13: 9780415079426
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Cornwall Andrea