Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages)
ISBN:
9783031117718
Series Statement:
Genders and sexualities in the social sciences
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Men's Friendships as Feminist Politics? -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Approaching Gender: Men and Masculine Positions -- Gender and Masculine Positions in the Swedish Context -- Gender and Friendship -- Asking New Questions: Towards a Feminist Friendship Studies -- Methodology -- Individual and Dyadic Interviews -- The Participants -- Organisation of the Book -- References -- Chapter 2: Couples, Careers, and Friendships: Normative Friendship Temporalities -- Becoming Friends: Culture and Class in Friendship Narratives -- Early Adulthood: Handling Change -- An Untimely Friendship -- Adult Friendships Out of Time: (Hetero)normative Friendship Temporalities -- Successful Friendships: Integrated into Everyday Lives -- Combining Friendship and Other Relationships -- Conclusion: Queer and Normative Friendship Temporalities -- References -- Chapter 3: Talkative Men, Therapeutic Friendships -- Real Conversations, Real Friendships? On the Centrality of Disclosure -- Sex as Off-Limits: New Discourse Needed -- Therapeutic Subjects and Friendships -- Changed by Therapeutic Friendships -- A Different Kind of Man: Gendered and Classed Conversations -- Conclusion: Healthy, Middle-Class Men? -- References -- Chapter 4: "I Hate Laddishness!" Political Friendships -- Friendship: The New Progressive? -- Touch: Laddishness and Back Pat Hugs -- "It Wasn't that We Were in Love or Something": Homosocialised Touch -- Friendship and Touch as Men's Activism -- Political Hugs -- Conclusion: The Will to Change -- References -- Chapter 5: Nice Friendships, Nice Interviews? -- Views of Interviews: Politics, Emotions, Niceness -- The Interview as a Political Statement: Discursive Closeness -- Therapeutic Interviews and Troubled Friendships.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783031117701
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783031117701
Language:
English
