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Author:   Gavin Brookes ,  Małgorzata Chałupnik
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.673kg
ISBN:  

9783031384066

ISBN 10:   3031384067
Pages:   398
Publication Date:   31 October 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Introduction: Masculinities, discourse and men’s health (Gavin Brookes and Małgorzata Chałupnik).- 2. “I am a man but I can cry right now”: Representations of masculinity in an anxiety support forum (Paul Baker and Luke Collins).- 3. Men’s illness and suicide: Constructing context (Dariusz Galasiński and Justyna Ziółkowska).- 4. Opening a new space for health communication: Twitter and the discourse of eating disorders in men (Heike Bartel and James Downs).- 5. Shed Talk: Discourses of men and masculinities in the context of a men’s shed (Steven Markham and Esmée Hanna).- 6. “My husband struggled in his own way”: The construction of masculinities in cis-het female infertility blogs (Karen Kinloch).- 7. Healthy white nationalists: Far right Selbstbilder in a digital age (Scott Burnett).- 8. (Mental) Health in the manosphere (Mark McGlashan).- 9. The sexually abnormal male asylum-seeker: Regimes of normativities in a context of free-spiritedness (Kristine Køhler Mortensen and Tommaso M. Milani).- 10. “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 and Alison Pilnick).- 11. “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).- 12. “Hi handsome, hi handsome!”: Masculinity and discourses of well-being in Indian male cosmetic advertisements (Mie Hiramoto and Shrutika Kapoor).- 13. New men? The medicalisation of men’s bodies on the Numan website (Emma Putland, Małgorzata Chałupnik and Gavin Brookes).- 14. “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 and Akua Asantewaa Campbell). 

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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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