Rural masculinity is hardly a typical topic for a book. There is something unexpected, faintly disturbing, even humorous about investigating that which has long been seen and yet so often overlooked. But the ways in which we think about and socially organize masculinity are of great significance in the lives of both men and women. In Country Boys we also see that masculinity is no less significant in rural life than in urban life.The essays in this volume offer much-needed insight into the myths and stereotypes as well as the reality of the lives of rural men. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions investigate what it means to be a farming man, a logging man, or a boy growing up in a country town and how this impacts both men and women in city and country. Chapters cover not only the United States but also Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, giving the book an unusually broad scope.
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We see that masculinity is no less significant in rural life than in urban life. The essays in this volume offer insight into the myths and stereotypes, as well as the reality of the lives of rural men. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions investigate what it means to be a farming man, a logging man, or a boy growing up in a country town.
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ContentsForeword-Carolyn Sachs 1. Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural LifeHugh Campbell, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, and Margaret FinneyPart I: Practices2. Cultivating Dialogue: Sustainable Agriculture and Masculinities Gregory Peter, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, Susan Jarnagin, and Donna Bauer3. Three Visions of Masculine Success on American Farms Peggy F. Barlett4. Masculinities in Rural Small Business Ownership: Between Community and Capitalism Sharon Bird5. Real Men, Real Locals, and Real Workers: Realizing Masculinity in Small-Town New Zealand Hugh Campbell6. Rooted and Routed Masculinities Among the Rural Youth of North Cork and Upper Swaledale Caitriona Ni Laoire and Shaun Fielding7. "White Men Are This Nation": Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American Masculinity Michael Kimmel and Abby L. Ferber8. Rural Men's Health: Situating Risk in the Negotiation of Masculinity Will H. CourtenayPart II: Representations9. Cowboy Love David Bell10. Embodiment and Rural Masculinity Jo Little11. Beer Advertising, Rurality, and Masculinity Robin Law12. Changing Masculinity in a Changing Rural Industry: Representations in the Forestry Press Berit Brandth and Marit S. Haugen13. Warrior Heroes and Little Green Men: Soldiers, Military Training, and the Construction of Rural Masculinities Rachel WoodwardPart III: Changes14. Country/City Men Robert W. Connell15. Gendered Places and Place-Based Gender Identities: Reflections and Refractions Linda LobaoAbout the ContributorsA Note on the PhotographsReferencesIndex
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"Country Boys demonstrates how images and realities of the lives of rural men-from cowboys, farmers, and lumberjacks to militiamen, agrarian patriarchs, and the lads down at the local pub-play central roles in the social construction of masculinities of all sorts, as well as in the gendered construction of rural life. Avoiding both idealization and denigration of rural masculinities, these essays indicate and excavate, literally and figuratively, underexplored locations to yield important and enlightening sociological insights. The essays in this volume make a very significant contribution to our understandings of the economies, sexualities, politics, and health of rural life on a global scale."-Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa"This edited volume represents a solid contribution to two areas of study in sociology. . . . The editors present a cogent introduction to the field, and the last two chapters are thought-provoking explorations of the changes surrounding rural masculinities."-A.A. Hickey, Choice"The collection is refreshingly progressive and, at times, unapologetically optimistic, being run through with the leitmotiv of the very real possibility of change."-Thomas Thurnell-Read, The Sociological Review
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780271028743
Publisert
2006-07-24
Utgiver
Vendor
Pennsylvania State University Press
Vekt
653 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, UU, UP, P
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
336

Biographical note

Hugh Campbell is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the University of Otago, New Zealand.Michael Mayerfeld Bell is Associate Professor of Rural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. His most recent book is Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability (Penn State, 2004).Margaret Finney recently completed her Ph.D. thesis on gender and literature and is currently working at the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at the University of Otago, New Zealand.