Gender, Culture and Society

MÁIRTIN MAC AN GHAILL is based in the Department of Education at the University of Newcastle, UK. He is the author of The Making of Men: Masculinities, Sexualities and Schooling (1994) and Contemporary Racisms and Ethnicities (1999) and he edited Understanding Masculinities (1996), all published by the Open University Press. He is the co-author of A Sociology of Men and Masculinities.CHRIS HAYWOOD is also based in the Department of Education at the University of Newcastle, UK. He is a Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies and the Degree programme Director of the undergraduate degree Media, Communication and Cultural Studies. He is the co-author of A Sociology of Men and Masculinities.

• Introduction: Gender Relations in ContextApproaching Gender: Feminism, Men's Studies and the Cultural TurnFragmenting Family Life: Maternal Femininities and Paternal MasculinitiesIn and Out of Labour: Beyond the Cult of Domesticity and BreadwinnersInterplaying Gender and Age in Late ModernitySporting Genders: Media Masculinities and FemininitiesShifting Gender Connections: Sexuality, Late Modernity and Lifestyle SexRepresenting Engendered Bodies: Producing the Cultural Categories 'Men' and 'Women'Men and Women of the World: Emerging Representations of Global Gender RelationsGender on the Move: The Search for a New Sex/Gender Order in Late ModernityConclusion