1997
DOI: 10.1177/0959353597071012
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`Wham Bam, am I a Man?': Unemployed Men Talk about Masculinities

Abstract: In contemporary society, being powerful is typically associated with, among other things, being male, middle class and employed. The cultural ascendancy of these characteristics is supported by specific structural and discursive patterns. However, there are a number of ways in which these cultural yardsticks can be challenged. In this paper we summarize the discursive patterns constructed by a group of working-class men experiencing long-term unemployment in a region of the English West Midlands. These men tal… Show more

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“…It can also be taken up by boys who have little choice: those who inhabit bodies and dispositions that are so distant from the physically powerful masculine subject that they cannot recognise themselves (nor can they be recognised by others) as that particular version of the subject 'boy'. But for many working-class boys, the triumphant sportsman is a powerfully attractive emblem of how they could come to access the fortune, fame and power held out to them as possibilities by the football business and other gendered apparatuses of twenty-first-century consumer capitalism (Willott & Griffin, 1997;Kenway & Bullen, 2001).…”
Section: Consuming Competition: Gender Physical Education and Culturmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It can also be taken up by boys who have little choice: those who inhabit bodies and dispositions that are so distant from the physically powerful masculine subject that they cannot recognise themselves (nor can they be recognised by others) as that particular version of the subject 'boy'. But for many working-class boys, the triumphant sportsman is a powerfully attractive emblem of how they could come to access the fortune, fame and power held out to them as possibilities by the football business and other gendered apparatuses of twenty-first-century consumer capitalism (Willott & Griffin, 1997;Kenway & Bullen, 2001).…”
Section: Consuming Competition: Gender Physical Education and Culturmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is, therefore, a lack of specification on how hegemonic masculinity might The ambiguities are compounded by the relative absence of detailed empirical research on masculine styles (although see Edley and Wetherell, 1997;in press;Gough, 1998;Willott and Griffin, 1997). Connell's (1995) own work on life history is mainly concerned with categorising groups of men into types dependent on their shared collective positioning in relation to gendered practices.…”
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“…Frey & Carns, 1988); racism at school and work (Hughes & DuMont, 1993); poverty (e.g. George, 1996;Jarrett, 1994); social class (Walkerdine, 1996); and unemployment (Willott & Griffin, 1997). 9.…”
Section: Notesmentioning
confidence: 99%