John Wyndham

John Beynon

The Secret People

Educational Facilities Laboratories

Stanford University. School Planning Laboratory

Designs for Independent Study Space

Study Carrels

* What is 'masculinity'? Is 'masculinities' a more appropriate term? * How are masculinities socially, culturally and historically shaped? * How are particular masculinities created, enacted and represented in specific settings? * How can masculinities best be researched and theorized? Masculinities and Culture explores how 'masculinities', or ways of 'being a man', are anchored in time and place; the products of socio-historical and cultural circumstances. It examines the emergence of a masculinity fit for Empire in the mid to late nineteenth century and, by way of contrast, the more recent media-driven, commercial New Man and New Lad masculinity. The author considers some of the media discourses shaping masculinities today, and the formation of specific masculinities in specific settings (such as prisons, hospitals and schools) which both define, and in turn are defined by, strongly held conceptions of acceptable masculine behaviour. He concludes by reviewing a range of ways in which masculinities might be researched, from fieldwork and auto/biographical and life history approaches through to semiotics and the use of both film and literary texts. This lively text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates concerning masculinities as gendered constructions, along with the means of researching and theorizing them.

Masculinities and Culture

Sleepers of Mars

Hugh Mackay

This collection of papers (plus some other material), presented at the Symposium on Information Technology and Education, BERA conference, in 1988, aims to provide a picture of current information technology and education research issues and debates. The style is non-technical and accessible.

Computers Into Classrooms

John Beynon

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