Table of Contents

Preface 1. Introduction: Masculinities under Neoliberalism - Andrea Cornwall 2. Masculinities and the Lived Experience of Neoliberalism - Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale 3. In Search of 'Stability': Working-class Men, Masculinity and Wellbeing in Contemporary Russia - Charlie Walker 4. 'Filial Son', Dislocated Masculinity and the Making of Male Migrant Workers in Urban China - Xiaodong Lin 5. Taking the Long View: Attaining and Sustaining Masculinity across the Life Course in South India - Penny Vera-Sanso 6. Desperate Markets and Desperate Masculinities in Morocco - Joe Hayns 7. Neutralized Bachelors, Infantilized Arabs: Between Migrant and Host – Gendered and Sexual Stereotypes in Abu Dhabi - Jane Bristol-Rhys and Caroline Osella 8. Windsurfers, Capoeiristas and Musicians: Brazilian Masculinities in Transnational Scenarios - Adriana Piscitelli 9. 'I must stand like a man': Masculinity in Crisis in Post-war Sierra Leone - Luisa Enria 10. Fatherhood and Intergenerational Struggles in the Construction of Masculinities in Huambo, Angola - John Spall 11. Masculinity, Marriage and the Bible: New Pentecostalist Masculinities in Zimbabwe - Diana Jeater 12. From Big Man to Whole Man: Making Moral Masculinities at the YMCA - Ross Wignall 13. (Dis)locating Masculinities: Ethnographic Reflections of British Muslim Young Men - Mairtin Mac an Ghaill and Chris Haywood 14. Football Field, Bar, and Street Corner: Sports, Space, and Masculinities in Rural Jamaica - William Tantam 15. Ducks, Dogs, and Men: 'Natural' Masculinities in New Zealand Duck Hunting - Carmen McLeod 16. (Dis)locations of Homosociality: Men in an All-Male University Residence Hall - Frank G. Karioris 17. Homosociality and Heterosex: Patterns of Intimacy and Relationality among Men in the London 'Seduction Community' - Rachel O'Neill

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Provides invaluable new insight into the impact of neoliberalism on masculinity, as well as the lived experiences of myriad men across the globe.

About the Author

Andrea Cornwall is professor of anthropology and international development in the School of Global Studies at Sussex University. She has published widely in the fields of gender and development studies, and is the editor of Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (with Nancy Lindisfarne, 1994) and Men and Development: Politicising Masculinities (with Jerker Edström and Alan Greig, Zed Books, 2011). Frank G. Karioris is a doctoral candidate in comparative gender studies, with a specialization in sociology and social anthropology from Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His dissertation focuses on men’s homosocial relations in an all-male university residence hall in the US. He has published in the Institute of Development Studies’ IDS Bulletin, as well as co-editing the book Reimagining Masculinities (2015). Nancy Lindisfarne taught social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London for many years. She has done anthropological fieldwork in Iran, Afghanistan, in a Turkish town, and among the urban bourgeoisie in Syria. Her publications include Dislocating Masculinity: Comparative Ethnographies (co-edited with Andrea Cornwall, 1994), Bartered Brides: Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society (1991), Languages of Dress in the Middle East (with Bruce Ingham, 1997), Thank God, We’re Secular: Gender, Islam and Turkish Republicanism (2001) and a book of short stories, Dancing in Damascus (2000), which also appeared in Arabic and Turkish.

Reviews

Masculinities under Neoliberalism stands out because of its rich case studies and its timely focus on how masculinities are subject to change in a neoliberal system.
*Allegra Laboratory*

This book is both a valuable and timely contribution to studies of men and masculinities ... can easily find a place in courses for upper-level undergraduate students or in graduate courses on masculinities, gender, or globalization.
*Culture, Society and Masculinities*

Readers from a wide range of disciplines will appreciate the far-reaching scope of the volume ... It is a welcome addition to any social science syllabus dealing with gender, capitalism, and the intersection of the two.
*Gender, Place and Culture*

Masculinities under Neoliberalism is not just an important, comprehensible and extremely timely endeavour to grasp the immeasurable impacts of neoliberal reforms … [the book] is itself a historical document, a product of its own time, written in the incongruous prose of urgency and futility that captures the spirit of today … a profound dissection into different life-worlds.
*Journal of Extreme Anthropology*

Impressive and path-setting ... The contributors have taken a giant step beyond inappropriate generalizing and abstracting in masculinist studies.
*Journal of Men's Studies*

A thought-provoking, cohesive, and engrossing collection of anthropological research that will be of interest to all masculinity scholars.
*Men and Masculinities*

/i>'Provides a rich mosaic of masculinities during a period of economic precarity and social fragmentation, and thus offers not only fresh ways of envisioning the various structures of people’s lives, but also contributes to the ongoing topical discussion on masculinities.
*Social Anthropology*

A powerful mix combining contributions from major figures and emerging stars in masculinities studies. The sparkling analysis throughout should attract new interest and inspire new work in the field.
*Matthew Gutmann, Brown University*

If, as Schumpeter argued, the essential fact about capitalism is its 'creative destruction,' one of the relationships it disrupts are ideologies of gender. In this essential volume, the authors show how globalization brings dislocation, upheaval, and migrations to older ideas about masculinity, leading to other forms of destabilization.
*Michael Kimmel, executive director, Center for the Study of Men and Masculinities*

An important and fascinating contribution to global perspectives on what it means to be a man in a time of rising inequality and economic uncertainty.
*Nikki van der Gaag, author of Feminism and Men*

With its vivid pictures of masculinities under stress in different regions and cultures, Masculinities Under Neoliberalism is a very rich resource for understanding contemporary men’s and women’s lives.
*Raewyn Connell, University of Sydney (Emerita)*

In this book we have a rare and rich tapestry of individual and groups of men operating against the vast backdrop of neoliberalism. This is a fine book with a surprisingly hopeful message.
*Robert Morell, University of Cape Town*

A timely volume with an important introduction by the editors which will set the terms of the debate on issues of men and masculinity for some time to come. The arguments should be accessible to advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students, and the book will be useful in anthropology and gender courses alike.
*Sherry B. Ortner, University of Michigan*

A wonderful and politically timely collection with a global reach Masculinities under Neoliberalism brings together insightful ethnographic studies that explore changing power and anxieties of men's lives in different cultural contexts. Interdisciplinary and grounded in comparative approaches it explores what is happening to men and masculinities in tense times of global economic crisis and rising inequalities.
*Victor Seidler, Goldsmiths, University of London*