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Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities
Jennifer Coates
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Description for Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities
Paperback. "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. Coates examines spontaneous conversations involving all-male groups. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: CFB; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631220466
SKU
V9780631220466
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Ref
99-50
About Jennifer Coates
Jennifer Coates is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Surrey Roehampton. She is author of Women Talk (Blackwell, 1996) and editor of Language and Gender: A Reader (Blackwell, 1997).
Reviews for Men Talk: Stories in the Making of Masculinities
‘Though many blandly assert that gender is socially 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 ... Read more