This selection of books brings together a wide array of critical and theoretical perspectives involved in the study of masculinity, masculinities or ‘what men do’. The collection includes contributions from the wide range of academic disciplines involved in working in this area. Inevitably, the texts consider explicitly the relationship between this area of study and the varieties of feminist discourse. All the books assume a positive relation-ship between those involved in the critical study of men and those involved in the development of feminist theory, and all of them take a broadly social constructionist approach. The focus of the books is wide. The Masculinities Reader (Whitehead and Barrett, 2001) is divided into five parts: (i) Defi...
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