Masculinities in a Global Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Joseph Gelfer

   Pages 1-13

3. Theoretical Models

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. New Directions in Gender Role Conflict Research

      • Cormac Ó. Beaglaoich, Kiran M. Sarma, Todd G. Morrison

      Pages 17-51

   3. Will the Real Joseph Gelfer Please Stand Up: Multiple Masculinities and the Self

      • Joseph Gelfer

      Pages 53-65

4. Masculinity and Stability

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67

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   2. Youthful Warrior Masculinities in Indonesia

      • Pam Nilan, Argyo Demartoto, Agung Wibowo

      Pages 69-84

   3. Men of Honor: Examining Individual Differences in Masculine Honor Beliefs

      • Donald A. Saucier, Jessica L. McManus

      Pages 85-99

   4. “Men Are Hard … Women Are Soft”: Muslim Men and the Construction of Masculine Identity

      • Asifa Siraj

      Pages 101-116

5. Masculinity Under Negotiation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Making the Global Bhadralok: Bengali Men and the Transnational Middle Class in India

      • Saayan Chattopadhyay

      Pages 119-135

   3. Better Men? Gendered Culturalized Citizenship in Male Emancipation Projects in the Netherlands

      • Iris van Huis

      Pages 137-157

   4. Fluid Masculinities? Case Study of the Kingdom of Bahrain

      • Magdalena Karolak, Hala Guta, Neva Helena Alexander

      Pages 159-174

   5. Masculinity in Ambiguity: Constructing Taiwanese Masculine Identities Between Great Powers

      • Ying-Chao Kao, Herng-Dar Bih

      Pages 175-191

   6. Historical Sediments of Competing Gender Models in Indigenous Guatemala

      • Brent E. Metz, Meghan Farley Webb

      Pages 193-211

6. Sexuality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213

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   2. Hypospadias, the “Bathroom Panopticon,” and Men’s Psychological and Social Urinary Practices

      • Stephen Craig Kerry

      Pages 215-228

   3. Cannibals and Ghosts: Forms of Capital, Immobility, and Dependence Among Former Javanese Sex Workers in South Bali (Indonesia)

      • Matteo Carlo Alcano

      Pages 229-245

   4. Transgender Identity and Acceptance in a Global Era: The Muxes of Juchitán

      • Alfredo Mirandé

      Pages 247-263

7. Back Matter

   Pages 265-277

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​​Masculinities in a Global Era extends the conversation of masculinity studies by analyzing global masculinities from a psychological perspective. Canvassing a broad array of psychological aspects such as the construction of identity, the negotiation of power, coping with trauma, and sexuality, this volume shows how masculinities are experienced, performed and embodied in geographically dispersed communities. Importantly, Masculinities in a Global Era fulfills a much-needed but elusive need within the study of masculinities: a forum in which the often polarized approaches of pro-feminists and men’s rights advocates can begin to move beyond their entrenched historical positions towards a more fruitful and nuanced future.​

• Bengali Men
• Citizenship in Male Emancipation Projects
• Javanese Sex Workers in South Bali
• Muslim men
• Muxes of Juchitán
• Taiwanese Masculine Identities
• Transgender Identity
• Transnational Middle Class in India
• diversity of men
• gender roles
• masculine honor beliefs
• masculine identity
• masculinities and globalization
• men's rights
• problem of patriarchy
• queer identity
• social context and masculinities

In his introduction to this volume, editor Joseph Gelfer references the emerging literature in global masculinity, including Connell (1998), Pease and Pringle (2001), and Blazina and Shen-Miller’s (2011) International Psychology of Men. Given my lack of familiarity with this area, I approached Masculinities in a Global Era from the standpoint of one who is not a global masculinities scholar and is needier of an introduction than of an advanced course. With that perspective in mind, I don’t think it is unfair to say that this volume can be considered as “Global Masculinities II.” That is, most of the chapters seem to require the reader to have some degree of familiarity with scholarship in this field, as well as a deeper understanding of geography, international conflicts, and global political developments than most of us Americans have (sadly)...As a psychologist, I must add that this is quite unlike other multicultural works that I have encountered. It is a challenging and thought-provoking collection of loosely connected writings that will likely inspire reflection and revision of ideas. However, a reader will not complete this volume having acquired easily digestible information about clinical application or intervention principles...Masculinities in a Global Era is, however, likely to stimulate needed challenges to many entrenched ideas aboutgender, manhood, and masculinity. I would recommend it to folks in academia, qualitative researchers, and any thinking person wishing to understand the
critical relevance of the life experiences of men that have been underrecognized and underappreciated in most all previous men’s studies scholarship."
Gary Brooks, PsycCRITIQUES
July 28, 2014, Vol. 59, No. 30, Article 4

• MCD University of Divinity, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  Joseph Gelfer

Dr Joseph Gelfer is a masculinities researcher at Monash University, Australia. He is author of Numen, Old Men: Contemporary Masculine Spiritualities and the Problem of Patriarchy (Equinox Publishing, 2009) and editor of 2012: Decoding the Countercultural Apocalypse (Equinox Publishing, 2011). He is also founding and current editor of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality, an open access journal available at www.jmmsweb.org, and The Best of Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (Gorgias Press, 2010).

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