Coping and suicide amongst the lads [electronic resource] : expectations of masculinity in post-traditional Ireland / Felicia Garcia.
2016
HV6548.I73
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Title
Coping and suicide amongst the lads [electronic resource] : expectations of masculinity in post-traditional Ireland / Felicia Garcia.
Author
Garcia, Felicia, author.
ISBN
9781137530332 (electronic book)
1137530332 (electronic book)
9781137530325
1137530332 (electronic book)
9781137530325
Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XVII, 235 pages)
Call Number
HV6548.I73
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.28084/2109417
Summary
For every female suicide in Ireland, there are five male suicides. This book is based on fieldwork done in and around Cork, Ireland between 2008 and 2012 among some forty young lads, aged 18-34. This anthropological approach aims to help explain why some groups in a specific society or community are more prone to commit suicide than others. In addition to suicide, this book focuses extensively on related issues such as alcohol, drug abuse, and other self-destructive behaviors prominent within Irish lad culture. This includes peer pressures and loyalties, chauvinistic jargon, homophobic bullying, humor, and the culture of mocking so as to grasp the cultural expectations of this particular form of masculinity. The everyday workings of gender segregation and gender-appropriateness is examined in detail by informants while addressing the underlying question whether increased gender equality—which includes men—could lessen young men's vulnerability to self-destructive behaviors and suicide in Ireland.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-230) and index.
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Global masculinities series.
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