Greg Knotts: Greg Knotts is a PhD candidate in Education, at the University of Southern California.
“The Men and the Boys” is an in-depth examination about masculinity across a variety of social spaces. Connell is a leading social scientist who adopts a variety of theoretical frameworks and constructs in this investigation of masculinity in a global world. The worlds of therapy, education, health services, violence prevention, policing, and social services are all examined in this collection of Connell's essays. A variety of lenses, from psychoanalytical, to social-psychological, to social constructionist are all utilized in Connell's theorizing. That there are multiple masculinities, and that they are actively constructed, are important conclusions of this investigation. That these masculinities can develop collectively and over time in a dynamic process is another important conclusion. Connell asserts that men and boys must be free to develop across a wide panoply of options rather than simply the typically prescribed, socially constructed roles that seem to limit the development of many
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