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Performing Masculinity: Body, Self and Identity in Modern Fiji - Softcover

Presterudstuen, Geir

 
9781350183841: Performing Masculinity: Body, Self and Identity in Modern Fiji
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1350183849 ISBN 13: 9781350183841
Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

Geir Henning Presterudstuen provides an ethnographic account of howmen in the multicultural urban centres of Fiji perceive, construct andperform masculinities in the context of rapid social change. Theoreticallyinformed by critical feminist theories, postcolonialism, R.W. Connell’s workon masculinities and a Bourdieuan conceptualization of the body, thisbook explores how notions of masculinity, manhood and the male bodyare shaped by the conflicting social forces of Fijian tradition, modernity,commercialization and urbanization.The book provides a timely intervention, from the grassroots level in theglobal south, into an ongoing discourse about men and masculinities thathas long been dominated by voices from Europe and the US. Combiningclassic ethnography with innovative social analysis, Presterudstuen’sbook is suitable for students and academics with an interest in genderand social change, and for scholars across a variety of disciplinesincluding anthropology, gender studies, sociology, pacific studies andinternational development.

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About the Author

Geir Henning Presterudstuen is Lecturer in Anthropology at Western Sydney University, Australia. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Fiji since 2009 and has published widely on issues of gender and social change.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1350183849
ISBN 13 
9781350183841
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
214