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Masculinities and Discourses of Men's Health

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Editors:
  1. Gavin Brookes

    1. Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

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  2. Małgorzata Chałupnik

    1. School of English, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

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  • Provides the first book-length treatment of discourses of (men’s) health
  • Covers a wide range of health topics, communicative and cultural contexts, and approaches to analysing discourse
  • Examines intersections of masculinity with men’s health

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality (PSLGS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Introduction: Masculinities, Discourse and Men’s Health

    • Gavin Brookes, Małgorzata Chałupnik
    Pages 1-23

  3. ‘I Am a Man but I Can Cry Right Now’: Representations of Masculinity in an Anxiety Support Forum

    • Paul Baker, Luke Collins
    Pages 25-47

  4. Men’s Illness and Suicide: Constructing Context

    • Dariusz Galasiński, Justyna Ziółkowska
    Pages 49-75

  5. Opening a New Space for Health Communication: Twitter and the Discourse of Eating Disorders in Men

    • Heike Bartel, James Downs
    Pages 77-99

  6. Shed Talk: Discourses of Men and Masculinities in the Context of Men’s Sheds

    • Steven Markham, Esmée Hanna
    Pages 101-127

  7. “My Husband Struggled in His Own Way”: The Construction of Masculinities in Cis-Het Female Infertility Blogs

    • Karen Kinloch
    Pages 129-159

  8. Healthy White Nationalists: Far-Right Selbstbilder in a Digital Age

    • Scott Burnett
    Pages 161-188

  9. (Mental) Health in the Manosphere

    • Mark McGlashan
    Pages 189-218

  10. The Sexually Abnormal Male Asylum-Seeker: Regimes of Normativities in a Context of Free-Spiritedness

    • Kristine Køhler Mortensen, Tommaso M. Milani
    Pages 219-247

  11. “I got confused when they said ‘you’re a girl’”: Trans Men’s Life Histories and the Regulation of Gender

    • Angela Zottola, Lucy Jones, Louise Mullany, Alison Pilnick
    Pages 249-271

  12. “5 ways to give your skin a fresh workout”: Semiotized and Mediatized ‘Consumer Masculinity’ in UK Branding and Advertising for Men’s Skincare Products

    • Laura Coffey-Glover
    Pages 273-306

  13. “Hi handsome, hi handsome!”: Masculinity and Discourses of Well-being in Indian Male Cosmetic Advertisements

    • Mie Hiramoto, Shrutika Kapoor
    Pages 307-334

  14. New Men? The Medicalisation of Men’s Bodies on the Numan Website

    • Emma Putland, Małgorzata Chałupnik, Gavin Brookes
    Pages 335-368

  15. “To Be ‘a Man’ Is Not Easy!”: Masculinities and Discourses of Fear and Anxiety among Male COVID-19 Survivors in Ghana

    • Grace Diabah, Dorothy Pokua Agyepong, Akua Asantewaa Campbell
    Pages 369-393

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 395-398
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About this book

This book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics related to health, such as mental health, sexual health, eating disorders and coronavirus, and offers health-based perspectives on issues such as migration and gender identity, as these relate to masculinities. In exploring these themes, this book addresses a wide range of communicative contexts, including online forums, interviews, advertising, sex education materials, migrant integration classes, and suicide notes. This book will appeal to linguists interested in health and gender (particularly masculinities), as well as scholars in fields such as psychology, media studies, cultural studies, and other humanities and social science disciplines with a focus on discourse.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

    Gavin Brookes

  • School of English, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

    Małgorzata Chałupnik

About the editors

Gavin Brookes is a Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. His research is situated in the field of discourse studies, where he applies corpus and multimodal approaches to examine discourse and identity, with a particular focus on health and gender amongst other aspects of identity.

Małgorzata Chałupnik is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. She specialises in the areas of professional and health communication, as well as language, gender and sexuality.

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