Introduction to the second edition
Introducing masculinities
Growth of the field of study
Debates and difficulties
The global dimension
In conclusion
pt. I. Knowledge and its problems
1. The science of masculinity
Rival knowledges
Clinical knowledge
The Oedipus complex
Archetype and identity
Radical psychoanalysis
The male role
The new social science
Histories
Ethnography of the other
Social construction and gender dynamics
Political knowledge
The object of knowledge
2. Men's bodies
True masculinity
Machine, landscape and compromise
The body inescapable
Complexities of mire or blood
Banquo's ghost : body-reflexive practices
Forming the world
3. The social organization of masculinity
Defining masculinity
Gender as a structure of social practice
Relations among masculinities : hegemony, subordination, complicity, marginalization
Historical dynamics, violence and crisis tendencies


pt. II. Four studies of the dynamics of masculinity
Introduction
4. Live fast and die young
Group and context
Abstract labour
Violence and the state
Compulsory heterosexuality for men
Masculinity as collective practice
Protest masculinity
Other trajectories
Divergent masculinities and gender politics
5. A whole new world
The moment of engagement
Distancing
The environmental movement
Encounters with feminism
The moment of separation
The annihilation of masculinity
The moment of contestation
6. A very straight gay
The moment of engagement
The grain of sand : sexuality
Being gay : identity and relationships
Relations between masculinities
Facing change
Gay masculinity as project and history
7. Men of reason
Constructing masculinity
Constructing rationality
Career and workplace
The irrational
Reason and change


pt. III. History and politics
8. The history of masculinity
The production of masculinity in the formation of the modern gender order
Transformations
The present moment
9. Masculinity politics
Men's politics and masculinity politics
Masculinity therapy
The gun lobby : defending hegemonic masculinity
Gay liberation
Exit politics
10. Practice and utopia
Historical consciousness
Purposes of action
Degendering and recomposing
Forms of action
Education
Prospects
Afterword : the contemporary politics of masculinity
Men's interests in contemporary patriarchy
'Backlash' politics
Neoliberalism and men's interests
The problem of violence
Masculinity politics on a world scale.