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Addressing the Health Crisis in Masculinity

Addressing the Health Crisis in Masculinity

Critically Assessing the Charge of 'Hegemonic Masculinity'

ByHenry Willoughby

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Addressing the Health Crisis in Masculinity. Critically Assessing the Charge of ‘Hegemonic Masculinity’ is a short book on the ill-health effects of hegemonic masculinity on men, as well as containing a critical assessment of the expansive gender theory of hegemonic masculinity – an examination of the utility and nuance in theoretical explanatory power. Ensuing redeployment of hegemonic masculinity conceptually as an exclusive intra-masculine phenomenon/phenomena is anchorage for further masculinist pro-feminist gender studies. This normative gender socialisation solicits skewed heightened morbidity and mortality rates on men, vis-à-vis women. The book explores, through the lens of overt and covert sex-class dimorphic power accruals, relevant biological difference, evolutionary gender roles, and sex-specific reproductive strategy. It shows how men are self-sacrificing their health in the pursuit of an illusory gender privilege, with the culprit being an intra-masculine ‘hegemonic masculinity’ which stems from the male dominant transnational capitalist class’ socializing power as the dominant ruling class of the globe. It pinpoints this ruthlessly competitive socialization as a hegemony which this class instills in its ruled subjects, particularly with regard to masculinities here. Whilst many resistant masculinities are formed, the collective behaviours of men are still framed as hegemonic, as a sex-class, which is in dire need of unpacking, along with a re-socialization of men, in the direction of better gender equity. Enriching the extant gender theorising is the positioning of intersectionalities and interconnections of political science and evolutionary psychology understandings relevantly applied thereto. It concludes with articulating the need for men to do more emotional labour, applying prowess in intellectualism to augmenting better emotional intelligence in confrontation of risk-taking, choice-making, and adoption of humane, and cooperative beliefs.

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Publication Date
Jan 16, 2021
Language
English
ISBN
9781716223433
Category
Social Science
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Henry Willoughby

Specifications

Pages
18
Binding Type
Paperback Saddle Stitch
Interior Color
Color
Dimensions
A4 (8.27 x 11.69 in / 210 x 297 mm)

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