Men Talk
Stories in the Making of Masculinities
1. Auflage Dezember 2002
240 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Men Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium.
* Draws on rich conversational material to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium.
* Collects data from a wide range of conversations, including garage mechanics on a break, carpenters at the pub after work, and university academics chatting after hours.
* Focuses on stories, which occur within all-male conversations.
* Makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the intersection of language and masculinity.
2. 'Good Story!': The Formal Characteristics of Male
Narrative.
3. 'So I Thought 'Bollocks to it': Men, Stories and
Masculinities.
4. 'Bad as My Mate': Stories in Sequence.
5. 'She'd Made Sardines in Aspic': Women's Stories, Men's
Stories and the Construction of Gender.
6. 'I'm Quite Good at Mexican Food': Men's Narratives in Mixed
Conversation.
7. 'Still in Shock Weren't You Darling': Masculinity and the
Heterosexual Couple.
8. 'There are Problems': Men's Talk and Contemporary
Masculinities.
Index.
constructed, few really understand how. In this insightful work,
Jennifer Coates takes us inside, deep inside, the construction of
masculinities and enables us to watch them in the process of their
construction, as men use language to create gendered meanings and
hierarchies, and are, in turn, made by those very meanings.'
Michael Kimmel, SUNY at Stony Brook and author of The Gendered
Society
'Men Talk is the first in-depth study of all-male
conversations. Coates's book takes a fresh look at the way in
which men's use of language helps to maintain, and sometimes
challenge, traditional gender boundaries.' Sally Johnson,
Lancaster University
"Very readable, grounded in data, with the chapters very
logically and clearly linked, providing a degree of overall
coherence that is often missing in books of this kind...[the book
contains a] wealth of detail and careful empirical analysis."
Discourse and Society
