Understanding masculinities Book

	Notes on contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	Social relations of masculinities
	Hard rulers	17
1	'Feckless fathers': masculinities and the British state	21
2	Masculinities and families	35
3	Schooling masculinities	50
4	'Men' at 'work': multiple masculinities/multiple workplaces	61
5	Men, masculinity and the challenge of long-term unemployment	77
Pt. 2	Cultural arenas of masculinities
	Freedom: poem for a secular Passover feast	95
6	Masculinity, power and identity	97
7	'One thing leads to another': drinking, fighting and working-class masculinities	114
8	Sporting masculinities: gender relations and the body	126
9	Are you sitting comfortably? Men's storytelling, masculinities, prison culture and violence	139
10	From 'little fairy boy' to 'the compleat destroyer': subjectivity and transformation in the biography of Mike Tyson	153
11	'Empowering men to disempower themselves': heterosexual masculinities, HIV and the contradictions of anti-oppressive education	168
Pt. 3	Critical evaluations of masculinities
	White fright	183
12	Reading black masculinities	185
13	Is masculinity dead? A critique of the concept of masculinity/masculinities	202
	Author index	218
	Subject index	222