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Author_Linda McDowell
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Product details
- ISBN 9781405105859
- Weight: 562g
- Dimensions: 158 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2003
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Redundant Masculinities? investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of young working class men.
- Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard.
- Looks at how the labour market is changing.
- Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities.
- Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity.
Linda McDowell is Professor of Geography at University College, London. Her previous publications include Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City (Blackwells, 1997) and Gender, Identity and Place (1999).
