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Redundant masculinities? : employment change and white working class youth / Linda McDowell

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub [2003], 2003

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 287 pages) : illustrations

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-276) and index

Erscheint auch als: McDowell, Linda, 1949- : Redundant masculinities?. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub, 2003 (Druck-Ausgabe)

0-470-77372-3 ; 0-470-77535-1 (electronic bk.); 1-4051-0585-2 ; 1-4051-0586-0 ; 978-0-470-77535-6 (electronic bk.); 978-1-4051-0585-9 ; 978-0-470-77372-7 ; 978-1-4051-0586-6

1-4051-0585-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4051-0585-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 1039149862     

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1002/9780470773727

HD6276.G72

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LOC-SH: Men, White -- Employment -- Great Britain ; Minorities -- Employment -- Great Britain ; High school dropouts -- Employment -- Great Britain ; Men, White -- Great Britain -- Psychology ; Masculinity -- Great Britain ; Young men -- Employment -- Great Britain

Masculinity ; Minorities ; Employment ; Young men ; Employment ; Jongens ; Blanken ; Arbeidersklasse ; Schoolverlaters ; Mannelijkheid ; Great Britain ; High school dropouts ; Employment

"The book focuses on a case study of young, white, male school leavers, based in the contrasting British cities of Cambridge and Sheffield. Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches as well as interviews with the young men over the course of 18 months, it looks at the level of anxiety unskilled school leavers suffer about their sense of themselves as men and as wage earners. Linda McDowell's analysis brings together arguments about the social construction of identies and about economic restructuring to reveal that the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' is not what it seems."--Jacket

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Introduction : young, white, male and working class --The rise of poor work : employment restructuring and changing class and gender identities --The contemporary crisis of masculinity : it's hard to be(come) a man or the problem of/for boys --Living on the edge : marginal lives in Cambridge and Sheffield --Leaving school : pathways to employment and further education --Actively seeking employment : committed workers and reluctant learners --Uncertain transitions : accidental and incidental workers, the excluded and escape attempts --Performing identity : protest and domestic masculinities --Conclusions :What is to be done about boys?