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Manhood Impossible : Men's Struggles to Control and Transform their Bodies and Work / Scott Melzer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (290 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813584904
  • 9780813584928
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.3/32 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1090 .M4195 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Manhood Dilemma -- Part I: The Body Dilemma -- Part II: The Breadwinner Dilemma -- Part III: The Future of the Manhood Dilemma -- Appendix: Studying Men and Manhood -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index
Summary: In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer argues that boys' and men's bodies and breadwinner status are the two primary sites for their expression of control. Controlling selves and others, and resisting being dominated and controlled is most connected to men's bodies and work. However, no man can live up to these culturally ascendant ideals of manhood. The strategies men use to manage unmet expectations often prove toxic, not only for men themselves, but also for other men, women, and society. Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men's struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Manhood Dilemma -- Part I: The Body Dilemma -- Part II: The Breadwinner Dilemma -- Part III: The Future of the Manhood Dilemma -- Appendix: Studying Men and Manhood -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

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In Manhood Impossible, Scott Melzer argues that boys' and men's bodies and breadwinner status are the two primary sites for their expression of control. Controlling selves and others, and resisting being dominated and controlled is most connected to men's bodies and work. However, no man can live up to these culturally ascendant ideals of manhood. The strategies men use to manage unmet expectations often prove toxic, not only for men themselves, but also for other men, women, and society. Melzer strategically explores the lives of four groups of adult men struggling with contemporary body and breadwinner ideals. These case studies uncover men's struggles to achieve and maintain manhood, and redefine what it means to be a man.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)