Insecure Masculinity

On the Impact of Societal Ideals of Masculinity on Men's Mental Health in Jamaica
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-658-39589-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 61 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 107 g

Reihe: BestMasters

This work focuses on the relationship between childhood socialization, masculinities, and young men’s coming of age in contemporary Jamaica. The author elucidates social, cultural, and historical dimensions of young men’s lifeworlds and theorizes on the potential trajectories of being emotionally well and/or un-well vis-à-vis gendered normative orders of growing up and relating to others within and beyond kinship and courtship relations. Based on fieldwork, this book elaborates on the extent to which social discourses of masculinity and men’s personal experiences of their own and other men’s mental health are reproduced in Jamaica. Faulhaber places her work in contemporary psychological and medical anthropology and aims to overcome the separation of psyche, body, and environment that is often common in psychotherapy, psychiatry, and health sciences. The author embarks on this important endeavour through critical and self-reflexive ethnography and the analysis of hegemonic narratives and discourses in media and popular culture. In juxtaposition and extension to other global mental health initiatives, this work highlights that well-being, affliction and suffering can barely be grasped scientifically as objectively measurable mental states of the individual.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faulhaber, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Research, methods and position.- The Jamaican Social Dilemma.- Masculinity and (In)Vulnerability: Representing Toughness.- Mental Health and Emotion.- Reflection and Conclusion.- Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

About the authorJulia Faulhaber is a PhD student at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Her research focus is on Medical and Psychological Anthropology.