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Insecure Masculinity

On the Impact of Societal Ideals of Masculinity on Men's Mental Health in Jamaica

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  1. Julia Faulhaber

    1. Wannweil, Germany

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Part of the book series: BestMasters (BEST)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    • Julia Faulhaber
    Pages 1-3

  3. Research, Methods and Position

    • Julia Faulhaber
    Pages 5-15

  4. The Jamaican Social Dilemma

    • Julia Faulhaber
    Pages 17-27

  5. Masculinity and (In)Vulnerability: Representing Toughness

    • Julia Faulhaber
    Pages 29-39

  6. Mental Health and Emotion

    • Julia Faulhaber
    Pages 41-52

  7. Reflection and Conclusion

    • Julia Faulhaber
    Pages 53-55

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 57-61
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About this book

This work focuses on the relationship between childhood socialization, masculinities, and young men’s coming of age in contemporary Jamaica. The author elucidates social, cultural, and historical dimensions of young men’s lifeworlds and theorizes on the potential trajectories of being emotionally well and/or un-well vis-à-vis gendered normative orders of growing up and relating to others within and beyond kinship and courtship relations. Based on fieldwork, this book elaborates on the extent to which social discourses of masculinity and men’s personal experiences of their own and other men’s mental health are reproduced in Jamaica. Faulhaber places her work in contemporary psychological and medical anthropology and aims to overcome the separation of psyche, body, and environment that is often common in psychotherapy, psychiatry, and health sciences. The author embarks on this important endeavour through critical and self-reflexive ethnography and the analysis of hegemonic narratives and discourses in media and popular culture. In juxtaposition and extension to other global mental health initiatives, this work highlights that well-being, affliction and suffering can barely be grasped scientifically as objectively measurable mental states of the individual.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Wannweil, Germany

    Julia Faulhaber

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About the author


Julia Faulhaber is a PhD student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Her research focus is on Medical and Psychological Anthropology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Insecure Masculinity

  • Book Subtitle: On the Impact of Societal Ideals of Masculinity on Men's Mental Health in Jamaica

  • Authors: Julia Faulhaber

  • Series Title: BestMasters

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-39590-2

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Psychology (German Language)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-39589-6Published: 28 October 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-39590-2Published: 27 October 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2625-3577

  • Series E-ISSN: 2625-3615

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 61

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Medical Anthropology, Ethnography, Sociology, general

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