Making sense of men's magazines / Peter Jackson, Nick Stevenson, Kate Brooks.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index.

1. Introduction. Reading magazines. Theorizing masculinities. Consumption, the media and audience studies -- 2. The media and the market. The magazine market. Contemporary media debates. Conclusion: the instability of hegemonic masculinities -- 3. Editorial work. Magazines and cultural power. Interviewing the editors. Editorial insecurities. Commercial imperatives versus editorial freedom. The 'necessary evil' of advertising. Responding to the market or creating a niche? Sexy or pornographic? -- 4. Questions of content. Boys love their girls. Don't you want me? Lexicons of love or operator's manual? Consumption and the sociology of the body. Men's health magazines, anxiety and the body. Irony and the cultural politics of masculinity -- 5. Readings. Discourses and dispositions. Discursive repertoires. Constructed certitude. Discursive dispositions. Cultural capital. An ambivalent space -- 6. Conclusion. Mediated cultural power. Masculinity and contemporary gender relations. Commercial culture. App. Researching men's magazines.

"Making Sense of Men's Magazines is a study which enables us to understand the appeal of men's magazines, the ways in which they are constructed and understood, and many of the complex questions they raise for both men and women. Through interviews with editors and key production staff, an analysis of the content of men's magazines and focus group interviews, this work seeks to 'make sense' of this cultural phenomenon. The authors give particular attention to the gendered and commercial character of men's magazines, and the implications they have for the way we understand capitalism, masculinity, and consumption in the modern world."--BOOK JACKET.

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