Masculinities in a Global Era

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 Global Era in its theoretical models, study findings, and compelling examples.

Multiple dynamics are displayed in these chapters--gender and sexuality, tradition and change, local and global, East and West--as male identity is defined as a work in progress in locations as disparate as Ireland and Indonesia. Contributors analyze the larger paradoxes and ambiguities of studying masculinity and globalization, and of the gender contexts of globalization as a social phenomenon. As a volume, the perspective is multinational, multiracial, sexually inclusive, and optimistic about globalization as a positive transformative force. Among the featured topics:

• Examining individual differences in masculine honor beliefs.
• Bengali men and the transnational middle class in India.
• Fluid masculinities: the case of Bahrain.
• Gendered cultured citizenship in male emancipation projects in the Netherlands.
• Hypospadias, the "Bathroom Panopticon."

• Transgender identity and acceptance: the Muxes of Juchitan, Mexico. Crossing myriad domains much like globalization itself, Masculinities in a Global Era is a thoughtful reference for researchers in a variety of disciplines, including cross-cultural studies, gender studies, sexuality, sociology, and developmental and cross-cultural psychology.

Auteur
Dr Joseph Gelfer is a masculinities researcher at Monash University, Australia. He is author of Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy (Equinox Publishing, 2009) and editor of 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse (Equinox Publishing, 2011). He is also founding and current editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, an open access journal available at www.jmmsweb.org, and The Best of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (Gorgias Press, 2010).

Résumé
Masculinities in a Global Era extends the conversation of masculinity studies by analyzing global masculinities from a psychological perspective. Canvassing a broad array of psychological aspects such as the construction of identity, the negotiation of power, coping with trauma, and sexuality, this volume shows how masculinities are experienced, performed and embodied in geographically dispersed communities. Importantly, Masculinities in a Global Era fulfills a much-needed but elusive need within the study of masculinities: a forum in which the often polarized approaches of pro-feminists and men's rights advocates can begin to move beyond their entrenched historical positions towards a more fruitful and nuanced future.

Contenu
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.