Making Sense of Men's Magazines

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'Virtually every magazine that isn't explicitly geared to women is "for" men. But only in the past few decades has there been a proliferation of magazines actually "about" men. These magazines herald more of a "new lad" than a "new man", linking obsessive sexual preoccupation with a relentless consumerism, reassuring increasingly anxious men that it is still a man's world. In this fascinating triangulated analysis, Jackson, Stevenson and Brooks complement their textual readings with interviews with magazine editors and discussions with men in focus groups to provide the most detailed analysis of this new form, it is essential reading for students of the new forms of masculinities.'
Michael Kimmel. 5UNY at Stony Brook
The last decade has witnessed the phenomenal growth of the men's magazine market, raising some important general questions. What is the significance of the rise of men's lifestyle magazines for gender politics? Are we witnessing a backlash against feminism or are... Tovább

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'Virtually every magazine that isn't explicitly geared to women is "for" men. But only in the past few decades has there been a proliferation of magazines actually "about" men. These magazines herald more of a "new lad" than a "new man", linking obsessive sexual preoccupation with a relentless consumerism, reassuring increasingly anxious men that it is still a man's world. In this fascinating triangulated analysis, Jackson, Stevenson and Brooks complement their textual readings with interviews with magazine editors and discussions with men in focus groups to provide the most detailed analysis of this new form, it is essential reading for students of the new forms of masculinities.'
Michael Kimmel. 5UNY at Stony Brook
The last decade has witnessed the phenomenal growth of the men's magazine market, raising some important general questions. What is the significance of the rise of men's lifestyle magazines for gender politics? Are we witnessing a backlash against feminism or are the magazines merely harmless fun? Why did the 'new man' give way to the 'new lad'? What political issues do these questions raise within the context of the information society?
Making Sense of Men's Magazines is an original study which enables us to understand the appeal of men's magazines, the ways in which they are constructed and understood, and many of the complex questions they raise for both men and women. Through interviews with editors and key production staff, an analysis of the content of men's magazines and focus group discussions, this work seeks to 'make sense' of this cultural phenomenon. The authors give particular attention to the gendered and commercial character of men's magazines, and the implications they have for the way we understand capitalism, masculinity and consumption in the modern world.
This book makes a major contribution to understanding the role of magazines in contemporary culture and will be essential reading for students of sociology, media and cultural studies and gender studies.
Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield, Nick Stevenson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham and Kate Brooks is a postgraduate student in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield.
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