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Redundant masculinities? : employment change and white working class youth / Linda McDowell.
Lippincott Library HD6273 .M396 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McDowell, Linda, 1949-
- Series:
- Antipode book series ; 2.
- Antipode book series ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young men--Employment--United States.
- Young men.
- Men, White--Employment--United States.
- Men, White.
- Minorities--Employment--United States.
- Minorities.
- Minorities--Employment.
- Psychology.
- High school dropouts--Employment.
- Young men--Employment.
- United States.
- High school dropouts--Employment--United States.
- High school dropouts.
- Men, White--United States--Psychology.
- Masculinity--United States.
- Masculinity.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
- Summary:
- Failing at school, disadvantaged in a changing labor market, and often characterized as thugs, young men are said to be experiencing a crisis of masculinity. Redundant Masculinities? investigates this crisis as it relates to young working-class men. Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches as well as interviews with the young men over the course of 18 months, the study looks at the level of anxiety unskilled school graduates suffer about their sense of themselves as men and as wage earners. The book's analysis brings together arguments about the social construction of identities and about economic restructuring to reveal that the so-called "crisis of masculinity" is not what it seems.
- Contents:
- Introduction : young, white, male and working class
- The rise of poor work : employment restructuring and changing class and gender identities
- The contemporary crisis of masculinity : it's hard to be(come) a man or the problem of/for boys
- Living on the edge : marginal lives in Cambridge and Sheffield
- Leaving school : pathways to employment and further education
- Actively seeking employment : committed workers and reluctant learners
- Uncertain transitions : accidental and incidental workers, the excluded and escape attempts
- Performing identity : protest and domestic masculinities
- Conclusions : what is to be done about boys?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [252]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1405105852
- 1405105860
- OCLC:
- 50982300
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