Manhood Impossible: Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work by Melzer, Scott

Manhood Impossible: Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813584904)

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Format: Hardcover
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Manhood Impossible: Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work by Melzer, Scott

Manhood Impossible: Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work

$150.00
Manhood Impossible: Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work by Melzer, Scott

Manhood Impossible: Men's Struggles to Control and Transform Their Bodies and Work

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Scott Melzer
ISBN-10: 0813584906
ISBN-13: 9780813584904
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/31/2018
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.90d

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Choice 01/01/2019
By Scott Melzer
By Scott Melzer
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SCOTT MELZER is a professor of sociology and chair of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Albion College in Michigan. He is the author of Gun Crusaders: The NRA's Culture War.

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