TY  - BOOK
AU  - Melzer,Scott
TI  - Manhood Impossible: Men's Struggles to Control and Transform their Bodies and Work 
SN  - 9780813584904
AV  - HQ1090 .M4195 2018
U1  - 155.3/32 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American
KW  - bodies
KW  - control
KW  - fighting club
KW  - manhood
KW  - masculine
KW  - men
KW  - struggle
KW  - work
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813584928?locatt=mode:legacy
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