Masculinities in a Global Era

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gelfer, Joseph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: International and Cultural Psychology, 4
• Subjects: Psychology.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Gender Studies.; Sociology, general.; Cross Cultural Psychology.

The ongoing movement toward globalization challenges us to reconsider issues of individual identity. Are we evolving into citizens of the world? How crucial is nationality? And for men, what does it now mean to be male? Diverse answers to this provocative question are analyzed in Masculinities in a...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part 1: Theoretical Models: New Directions in Gender Role Conflict Research
• Will the Real Joseph Gelfer Please Stand Up: Multiple Masculinities and the Self
• Part 2: Masculinity and Stability
• Youthful Warrior Masculinities in Indonesia
• Men of Honor: Examining Individual Differences in Masculine Honor Beliefs
• "Men are Hard...Women are Soft": Muslin Men and the Construction of Masculine Identity
• Part 3: Masculinity Under Negotiation: Making the Global Bhadralok?: Bengali Men and the Transnational Middle Class in India
• Better Men?" Gendered Culturalized Citizenship in Male Emancipation Projects in the Netherlands
• Fluid Masculinities? Case Study of the Kingdom of Bahrain
• Masculinity in Ambiguity: Constructing Taiwanese Masculine Identities between Great Powers
• Historical Sediments of Competing Gender Models in Indigenous Guatemala
• Part 4: Sexuality: Hypospadias, the "Bathroom Panopticon" and Men's Psychological and Social Urinary Practices
• Cannibals and Ghosts: Forms of Capital, Immobility and Dependence Among Former Javanese Sex Workers in South Bali
• Transgender Identity and Acceptance in a Global Era: The Muxes of Juchitán.