Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines (Sociological Review Monographs) - Tapa blanda

This book explores the burgeoning genre of men's lifestyle magazines, their production and consumption, and related constructions of masculinity. Interdisciplinary exploration of the burgeoning genre of men's lifestyle magazines. Addresses key questions about the production and consumption of men's lifestyle magazines, and their contribution to current gender politics. Contributors make use of a range of methodologies, including interviews with magazine editors, focus groups with readers, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. Draws on scholarship from sociology, media studies, cultural studies and linguistics. Uses new research data, including comparative data from different countries, gay magazines and sporting magazines.

Since it was launched in the mid-1980s, the modern men’s lifestyle magazine has provided an important popular site for the articulation of modern masculinity and for speaking to the male consumer. This edited collection explores this burgeoning genre, its production and consumption, and related constructions of masculinity.

The book provides a broad-ranging, interdisciplinary introduction to the subject, drawing on scholarship from sociology, media studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. The contributors make use of a range of methodologies, including interviews with magazine editors, focus groups with readers, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis. Most also use new research data for their analysis, including comparative data from men’s magazines in different countries, gay magazines and sporting magazines.