Overview
The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world. The Encyclopedia's coverage is comprehensive across three dimensions: areas of personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and historical contexts and formations. The Encyclopedia: examines every area of men's personal and social lives as shaped by gender covers masculinity politics, the men's groups and movements that have tried to change men's roles presents entries on working with particular groups of boys or men, from male patients to men in prison incorporates cross-disciplinary perspectives on and examinations of men, gender and gender relations gives comprehensive coverage of diverse cultural and historical formations of masculinity and the bodies of scholarship that have documented them. The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities is composed of over 350 free-standing entries written from their individual perspectives by eminent scholars in their fields. Entries are organized alphabetically for general ease of access but also listed thematically at the front of the encyclopedia, for the convenience of readers with specific areas of interest.
Full Product Details
Author: Michael Flood ,
Judith Kegan Gardiner ,
Bob Pease ,
Keith Pringle
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 18.90cm
, Height: 4.30cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 1.270kg
ISBN: 9780415864541
ISBN 10: 0415864542
Pages: 744
Publication Date: 09 September 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'This is an excellent encyclopedia for all doctors and other staff involved in healthcare who are interested in areas relating to men, masculinity and gender research.' - Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association 'A crucial resource for collections supporting students and scholars of gender studies and/or men's studies. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates and above.'- Choice 'This new encyclopedia is up-to-date, scholarly, interdisciplinary and international in scope.' - Choice
'What we have here, is a reference work that will provide coherent introductions to pretty well all the central concepts in the field, connect them up, and do all this for readers coming from all directions and wanting reliable and clear information'-- Stuart Hannabuss, Gray's School of Art 'This is long overdue'-- Stuart Hannabuss, Gray's School of Art 'This source could easily become a first stop for background and overviews on most topics of interest to those doing research on masculinity. It is a crucial resource for collections supporting students and scholars of gender studies and/or men's studies.' --R. L. Krajewski, Simmons College, Choice 'This is an excellent encyclopedia for all doctors and other staff involved in healthcare who are interested in areas relating to men, masculinity and gender research.' - Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association 'A crucial resource for collections supporting students and scholars of gender studies and/or men's studies. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-level undergraduates and above.'- Choice 'This new encyclopedia is up-to-date, scholarly, interdisciplinary and international in scope.' - Choice
Author Information
Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, Keith Pringle
