Neoliberalism has had a radical impact on how people perceive and experience gender around the world. But while the impact of this economic and social framework on gender has received significant scholarly attention in the case of women, there has been a dearth of scholarship on how it affects men’s experience and understanding of gender. Building on the work of Cornwall and Lindisfarne’s landmark text Dislocating Masculinity, this collection provides a fresh perspective on gender dynamics under neoliberalism. The subjects covered in Masculinities under Neoliberalism range from working class men in Putin’s Russia to colonial masculinities in Southern Rhodesia and from young British Muslim men to amateur footballers in Jamaica, offering a unique glimpse into the lives of men across the globe. The contributors show how neoliberalism has transformed gender relations as well as how we understand and enact masculinity. Masculinities under Neoliberalism holds important implications not only for the study of gender, but also for sociology, development, and postcolonial studies.
Author(s): Andrea Cornwall, Frank Karioris, Nancy Lindisfarne
Publisher: Zed Books
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 304
Tags: LGBT Studies, Psychology & Violence, Gender Studies On Men
Cover......Page 1
Half title......Page 2
About the editors......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
About the contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 14
1. Introduction: Masculinities Under Neoliberalism......Page 20
Dislocating Masculinity revisited......Page 21
Masculinity under neoliberalism......Page 26
Everyday life in neoliberal times......Page 31
Normative disappointments......Page 35
(Dis)locations and discontents......Page 36
Gender and generation......Page 37
Producing subjectivities......Page 39
Homosocialities......Page 41
Conclusion......Page 43
References......Page 44
Introduction......Page 48
Sexism, class and violence......Page 49
Neoliberalism as an economic and political system......Page 51
Making sense of masculinities under neoliberalism......Page 55
Ideologies of gender inequality......Page 59
How masculinities have changed under neoliberalism......Page 61
Masculinities, migration and social distance......Page 66
Notes......Page 67
References......Page 68
Introduction: reinscribing working-class masculinities......Page 70
Russian workers: from heroes to zeroes......Page 71
Learning to labour in post-Soviet Russia......Page 73
Working-class men in young adulthood: in search of stability......Page 76
Conclusion......Page 81
References......Page 82
Modernity, marginalization and rural–urbanmigrant men in China......Page 85
Migration and marginalization......Page 86
Migrant men, filial sons and changing families......Page 88
Conclusion......Page 95
Notes......Page 96
References......Page 97
Introduction......Page 99
India, adult masculinity and the right to provide......Page 102
Achieving and sustaining masculinity......Page 105
Contesting and claiming masculinity: female providers and male dependants......Page 109
Conclusion......Page 113
Notes......Page 115
References......Page 116
Introduction......Page 118
Globalization......Page 119
Desperate market......Page 120
Desperate masculinities......Page 122
Shame......Page 124
Conclusion......Page 126
Notes......Page 127
References......Page 128
Introduction......Page 130
Of men and masculinity......Page 133
Locating gender regimes......Page 140
Acknowledgements......Page 141
References......Page 142
Incorporating ‘Brazilianness’ in transnational scenarios......Page 144
Styles of masculinity in Brazil......Page 146
Diversity and exoticization......Page 148
Reconfigurations......Page 150
Notes......Page 152
References......Page 153
Introduction......Page 155
The ‘crisis of youth’: constructing problematic masculinities......Page 156
Being male in the post-war city I: consumption and masculinity......Page 160
Being male in the post-war city II: performing marginal manhood......Page 163
References......Page 167
Introduction......Page 170
Visions of progress......Page 173
Delinquency......Page 175
Making men from boys......Page 177
Conclusion......Page 180
References......Page 182
11. Masculinity, Marriage and the Bible: New Pentecostalist Masculinities in Zimbabwe......Page 184
Historical background......Page 185
Pentecostalism and ‘soft masculinity’......Page 187
The new Pentecostalism and new ‘hard’ masculinities......Page 189
Wives, children, and ‘spiritual bling’......Page 192
Sexual violence and the return of the warrior evangelist......Page 196
Conclusion......Page 198
References......Page 199
Introduction......Page 202
The Whole Man and the masculinization of development......Page 203
Rituals of manhood: muscular masculinity on the Sports Leaders course......Page 204
The shifting sands of manhood: sport and situational masculinities in the Gambia......Page 209
Conclusions: making men ‘whole’......Page 212
References......Page 214
Introduction......Page 217
Ethnographic representational space, generational censorship, and collective self-reflexivity......Page 219
(Dis)locating masculinities: the spectre of the young Muslim man......Page 222
Living different (social and spatial) realities......Page 225
Conclusion......Page 228
References......Page 229
Introduction......Page 232
On the field......Page 234
Sensible football: the older players......Page 235
‘Bragging rights’: the ‘rebel’ side......Page 237
Socializing and sociality off the pitch......Page 238
Inscribing difference......Page 241
Conclusion......Page 242
References......Page 244
Introduction......Page 246
Performing masculinities in rural spaces......Page 247
Of ducks and men......Page 251
Of dogs and men......Page 255
Conclusion......Page 258
References......Page 260
Introduction......Page 263
Regan Hall, the university, and the step......Page 265
The Step Kids......Page 268
Conflict with Herald Hall......Page 272
Conclusion......Page 276
References......Page 278
Introduction......Page 280
Homosociality and heterosex......Page 281
Remediating masculinity through homosociality......Page 285
Neoliberal intimacies......Page 291
Notes......Page 293
References......Page 294
Index......Page 296
