Masculinity, Labour, and Neoliberalism

Abstract

The dramatic success ofGender Studies has rested on three developments: (1) making women’s lives visible, which has also come to mean making all genders more visible; (2) insisting on intersectionality and so complicating the category of gender; (3) analyzing the tensions among global and local iterations ofgender. Through textual analyses and humanities-based studies ofcultural representations, as well as cultural studies ofattitudes and behav- iors, we have come to see the centrality ofgender in the structure ofmodern life. This series embraces these advances in scholarship, and applies them to men’s lives: gendering men’s lives, exploring the rich diversity of men’s lives - globally and locally, textually and practically - as well as the differences among men by class, race, sexuality, and age.