Debating Modern Masculinities: Change, Continuity, Crisis?

1. Introduction: Masculinities in Crisis? Opening the Debate
Steven Roberts

2. The Limits of Masculinity: Boys, Taste and Cultural Consumption
Victoria Cann

3. Degrees of Masculinity: Working and Middle-Class Undergraduate Students’ Constructions of Masculine Identities
Nicola Ingram, Richard Waller

4. ‘We’re Different from Everyone Else’: Contradictory Working-Class Masculinities in Contemporary Britain
Michael R. M. Ward

5. Oppression, Acceptance or Civil Indifference? Middle-Aged Gay Men’s Accounts of ‘Heterospaces’
Paul Simpson

6. Brothers of Metal! Heavy Metal Masculinities, Moshpit Practices and Homosociality
Gabby Riches

7. Straight Guys Do Wear Make-Up: Contemporary Masculinities and Investment in Appearance
Brendan Gough, Matthew Hall, Sarah Seymour-Smith

8. Theorising Masculinities in Contemporary Britain
Eric Anderson, Mark McCormack

Keywords: Social Sciences, Sociology of the Body, Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies