Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural Life (Rural Studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0271028750 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jeffery Mingo said (First World, white) Rural Men. There's no such thing as too much men's studies: this privileged group needs to see itself and not think of itself as universal or de-sexed. Also, men's studies fulfills the most when it covers the intersectionality of masculinity and other areas. Books have been produced about older men, black men, bisexual men, rich men, poor men, and finally this book publishes work on rural men. Like much men's studies, the contributors are both male and female.Though this book includes photographs of men of color and non-Christian men, not one article spoke of rural men
Margaret Finney recently completed her PhD thesis on gender and literature and is currently working at the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the University of Otago, New Zealand. . His most recent book is Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability (Penn State, 2004). Hugh Campbell is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the University of Otago,
The essays in this volume make a very significant contribution to our understandings of the economies, sexualities, politics, and health of rural life on a global scale.”—Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa“This edited volume represents a solid contribution to two areas of study in sociology. The editors present a cogent introduction to the field, and the last two chapters are thought-provoking explorations of the changes surrounding rural masculinities.”—A.A. Avoiding both idealization and denigration of rural masculinities, these essays indicate and excava
But the ways in which we think about and socially organize masculinity are of great significance in the lives of both men and women. The essays in this volume offer much-needed insight into the myths and stereotypes as well as the reality of the lives of rural men. There is something unexpected, faintly disturbing, even humorous about investigating that which has long been seen and yet so often overlooked. Rural masculinity is hardly a typical topic for a book. Chapters cover not only the United States but also Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, giving the book an unusually broad scope.. In Country Boys we also see that masculinity is no less significant in rural life than in urban life. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions investigate what it means to be a farming man, a logging man, or a boy growing up in a country town and how this impacts both men and women in city and country