Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
  
• Introduction to the second edition
  
• Part I: Knowledge and its Problems:
  
• 1. The Science of Masculinity.
  
• 2. Men's Bodies.
  
• 3. The Social Organization of Masculinity.
  
• Part II: Four Studies of the Dynamics of Masculinity: .

Introduction.

• 4. Live Fast and Die Young.
  
• 5. A Whole New World.
  
• 6. A Very Straight Gay.
  
• 7. Men of Reason.
  
• Part III: History and Politics:
  
• 8. The History of Masculinity.
  
• 9. Masculinity Politics.
  
• 10. Practice and Utopia.
  
• Afterword: The Contemporary Politics of Masculinity
  
• References and bibliography
  
• Index

About the Author

Robert W. Connell, Professor of Education at the University of Sydney

Reviews

"In a new introduction and afterword, Connell reviews more recent work and extends some of his thinking on the significance to masculinity of global economics, politics and culture."

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