Young Masculinities

出版者:Palgrave Macmillan

作者:Stephen Frosh

页数:304

出版时间:2001-10-31

价格:0

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780333779231

具体描述

How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations, their fears? How do they feel about their own masculinity? About style, 'race', homophobia? About football?

This book examines aspects of 'young masculinities' that have become central to contemporary social thought, paying attention to psychological issues as well as to social policy concerns. Centring on a study involving in-depth exploration, through individual and group intererviews, the authors bring to light the way boys in the early years of secondary schooling conceptualise and articulate their experiences of themselves, their peers and the adult world. The book includes discussion of boys' aspirations and anxieties, their feelings of pride and loss. As such, it offers an unusually detailed set of insights into the experiential world inhabited by these boys - how they see themselves, how girls see them, what they wish for and fear, where they feel their 'masculinity' to be advantageous and where it inhibits other potential experiences. In describing this material, the authors explore questions such as the place of violence in young people's lives, the functions of 'hardness', of homophobia and football, boys' underachievement in school, and the pervasive racialisation of masculine identity construction.

Young Masculinities will be invaluable to researchers in psychology, sociology, gender and youth studies, as well as to those devising social policy on boys and young men.

'At a moment when educationalists, social researchers and those involved in social policy are concerned by the apparent 'crisis' amongst boy and young men...this book is timely...would I buy this book? Both as an academic with an interest in children's well-being and fathering as well as someone who has spent more than thirty years working with 'troubled' and 'troubling' young men, I would spend my money. The many quotes from the boys and the insightful interpretations rang true. This book is a useful contribution to the literature.' - Ann Buchanan, Jounal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

'Provides insights into the subtle matrix of rules and mechanisms boys must negotiate in order to be seen as acceptable...what is also vividly exposed is the dissatisfaction many boys feel with the limits this imposes.' - New Statesman

'A sophisticated and rigorously theorized account of boys' masculine identity construction...It also offers a rare and insightful account of the interview process as a 'social space'...an invaluable resource to any academic/professional, practitioner or policy maker researching, or working with, boys and young men and indeed anyone interested in understanding the construction of contemporary inner-city masculinities, from the perspective and experiences of boys themselves.' - British Journal of Social Work (2004)

'I fully expect Young Masculinities to become a landmark book. It provides a timely intervention into the ongoing debate about 'the problem with boys...' - Rachel Thomson, South Bank University, Social Policy

作者简介

STEPHEN FROSH is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Vice Dean in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He is the author of numerous academic papers and several books, including For and Against Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis, Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self and The Politics of Psychoanalysis. He is joint author, with Danya Glaser, of Child Sexual Abuse and co-editor with Anthony Elliott of Psychoanalysis in Context.

ANN PHOENIX is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Open University. Her books include Standpoints and Differences (with Karen Henwood and Chris Griffin), Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe (with Helma Lutz and Nira Yuval-Davies), and Black, White or Mixed Race? (with Barbara Tizard).

ROB PATTMAN is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Botswana. He has taught sociology in sixth form colleges and institutions of higher education in Britain and southern Africa, and published articles on whiteness, gender identities, sex and AIDS education and social theory.

目录信息

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Boys Talk
Lads, Machos and Others: Developing 'Boy-Centred' Research
'Hegemonic' Masculinities
Boys Talking About Girls
Girls About Boys
Ethnic Identity, 'Race' and Young Masculinities
Policing Young Masculinities
Boys and Schooling
On the Way to Adulthood: Relationships with Parents
Conclusion
References
Appendix 1: Details of Individual and Group Interviews with Boys and Girls
Appendix 2: Characteristics of the Participants
Appendix 3: Protocol for Group Interviews
Appendix 4: Protocol for Individual Interviews
Appendix 5: Protocol for Individual Interviews with Girls
Index
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用户评价

坦白说，我抱着非常高的期待开始阅读这本书的，主要是被它宏大的议题所吸引。从结构上看，作者试图建立一个跨越历史和地域的宏大叙事，将现代男性困境置于一个更广阔的社会变迁的背景下。书中的一些章节对于全球化背景下性别角色重塑的分析颇为精彩，尤其是在探讨非西方文化背景下的男性适应性挑战时，展现了广阔的视野。然而，在实际阅读过程中，我发现叙事的连贯性有时会受到影响。似乎作者在试图塞入过多重要的议题，导致某些关键论点没有得到足够深入的挖掘就匆匆转向了下一个主题。比如，关于技术对男性身份认同的影响，这个话题潜力巨大，但在书中只是蜻蜓点水地提了一下。总而言之，这本书像是一个装载了丰富珍宝的宝箱，但钥匙却有点难找，需要读者自己投入更多的精力去整理和串联那些散落的精彩片段，才能真正领略到它全部的价值所在。

这本书的文字风格，说实话，一开始让我有些措手不及。它采用了大量的学术引述和理论框架来支撑其论点，初读时，那种密集的术语和复杂的句式结构，确实让人需要放慢速度，甚至需要频繁地查阅资料才能跟上作者的思路。然而，一旦你适应了这种节奏，你会发现这种严谨性恰恰是它力量的来源。作者显然是下了一番苦功夫，梳理了从心理学、社会学到文化人类学等多个学科的脉络，试图构建一个立体化的分析模型。我个人最感兴趣的是其中关于“情感劳动分配不均”的章节，它非常细致地剖析了现代家庭结构中，男性在承担“功能性支持”与“情感连接”之间的张力。这种细致入微的分析，使得原本抽象的理论变得有血有肉，不再是空洞的口号。它要求读者具备一定的理论基础，但这回报也是丰厚的——它提供了一套强有力的工具，帮助我们解构日常生活中那些看似自然实则建构起来的性别角色。对于那些想深挖问题根源的人来说，这本书无疑是打开新视野的一把钥匙。

这本书的批判锋芒犀利得让人有些心寒，但同时也极具启发性。它的核心论点似乎在挑战一个非常根深蒂固的观念：即“成熟”必然伴随着某种程度上的情感压抑和权力获取。作者以一种近乎冷酷的客观态度，揭示了这种“成熟”的代价——它往往意味着对自身脆弱性的系统性否认，以及对他人的潜在伤害。我特别喜欢它对“沉默的共谋”那一节的处理。它没有将焦点完全放在个别“坏蛋”身上，而是探讨了整个社会环境如何通过微妙的鼓励和惩罚机制，共同维护着一个狭隘的男性气概标准。这种对系统性压力的强调，让我重新审视了自己在人际交往中那些不经意的助推行为。虽然阅读过程需要不断地进行自我反思，甚至会让人感到不适，但正是这种直面真实、不回避矛盾的态度，使得这本书具有了超越一般性评论的价值。它像一面镜子，反射出我们集体不愿正视的阴影。

我这本书的阅读体验更像是一次漫长而又略显疲惫的田野调查。作者的叙事手法非常侧重于案例的呈现，而不是单纯的理论推导。我感觉自己仿佛跟随着作者的脚步，走访了形形色色的群体：从高压的金融精英，到默默耕耘的蓝领工人，再到热衷于电竞文化的青年群体。这种“行走式”的写作，使得整本书充满了生活的气息，读起来丝毫没有那种高居庙堂的疏离感。其中关于“职业身份危机”的部分，尤其触动我。它描绘了在经济结构快速转型的大背景下，男性如何通过物质成就来界定自身价值，而一旦这种成就受到威胁，随之而来的身份认同的崩塌是何等迅速和彻底。作者并没有对这些群体做出道德评判，而是专注于描绘他们如何在既有的社会框架内挣扎求存。唯一的遗憾是，某些案例的侧重点似乎有些失衡，导致某些群体被过度聚焦，而另一些本应得到探讨的声音却被轻描淡写地带过，使得整体的景观略显单薄。

这本书的装帧设计着实吸引眼球，那种粗粝的纸张触感，配合着略带复古感的排版，立刻就能让人感觉到作者在试图探讨一个相当“硬核”的话题。我翻阅了其中的几章，尤其对关于当代社会中“榜样缺失”那部分印象深刻。作者并没有采取那种高高在上的批判视角，反而深入到日常生活的细枝末节中去，比如体育场馆里的喧闹、职场新人午餐时的沉默，试图捕捉那些潜藏在集体行为之下的个体挣扎。我特别欣赏的是，它没有试图提供一套万能的解决方案，而是更像一个精心搭建的观察台，邀请读者自己去审视那些我们习以为常的男性行为模式。比如，书中对比了不同代际男性在面对情感表达上的差异，那种微妙的语境变化被捕捉得非常到位。读完后，你会发现，原来我们每天都在无意识地参与塑造着某种“应该成为什么样”的叙事，而这些叙事又是多么地脆弱和多变。整体而言，它不是一本读起来轻松愉快的书，但绝对是一本值得反复咀嚼的社会观察报告。