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Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football

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Football has traditionally been an institution hostile toward sexual minorities. Boys and men in the sport have deployed high levels of homophobia for multiple reasons. However, the ground-breaking research within this book shows that intolerant attitudes toward gay men are increasingly being challenged. Based on unprecedented access to Premier League academies, Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football: Men in the Beautiful Game explores these changing attitudes toward homophobia in football today.

Revealing a range of masculine identities never before empirically measured at this level of football, this book discusses the implications for the complex and enclosed structures of professional sport, and extends our understanding of contemporary masculinity. It also offers fresh insights to the importance of banter in the development of relationships and identities. This culture of banter often plays a paradoxical role, both facilitating and disrupting friendships formed between male footballers.

As the first title in the Routledge Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities Series, this book is fascinating reading for all students and scholars interested in football and the study of gender, sexuality and the sociology of sport.

Rory Magrath is a Lecturer in the School of Sport, Health and Social Sciences at Southampton Solent University, UK. His research focuses on the effects of declining homophobia in British sport, and how this impacts on the expression of contemporary masculinity. He has conducted research with footballers from Premier League academies and universities, as well as British football fans. His research has received media attention from the Guardian, BBC Radio 5 Live and London Evening Standard.

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Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities

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Rapid transitions related to men and masculinities are occurring across the Western world: Men are living and working within post-industrial capitalist societies; the decline of homophobia in some cultural contexts has led to profound changes in the social dynamics of men; and the internet is transforming social lives, particularly for young people. Ways to understand the dynamics of men are diversifying even as social issues related to men and masculinities persist in a range of spheres at an international level. New theoretical developments have also occurred as empirical studies shed new light on familiar topics.

The Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities series will be an important hub for innovative and theoretically rich empirical research that develops a critical understanding of men and masculinities within contemporary societies. This series welcomes research monographs examining important social issues related to boys, men and masculinities, including issues related to class, sexuality, age, race, individualization and gender relations in a range of social contexts (e.g. education, society, work, family, sport and media). Books advancing new or innovative theories to understand masculinities will be particularly welcomed, and the series will be a venue for cutting-edge empirical research. Edited books will be accepted if they address a key gap in knowledge and provide a compelling rationale for their inclusion. We welcome relevant scholarship from any country.

Mark McCormack is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham University.

Eric Anderson is Professor of Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities at the University of Winchester.

Nick Rumens is Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Portsmouth.

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Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football

Men in the Beautiful Game

Rory Magrath

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Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football

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Men in the Beautiful Game

Rory Magrath

First published 2017
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

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2017 Rory Magrath

The right of Rory Magrath to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Magrath, Rory, author.
Title: Inclusive masculinities in contemporary football : men in the
beautiful game / Rory Magrath.
Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY:
Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016018282| ISBN 9781138653610 (hardback) |
ISBN 9781315623689 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: SoccerSocial aspects. | Masculinity.
Classification: LCC GV943.9.S64 M347 2016 | DDC 796.334dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016018282

ISBN: 978-1-138-65361-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-62368-9 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon
by Wearset Ltd, Boldon, Tyne and Wear

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Eric Anderson, Mark McCormack and Nick Rumens

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Research on men and masculinities is at an important juncture. Men are negotiating the challenges associated with living and working in a post-industrial capitalist society; the decline of homophobia in many cultural contexts has led to profound changes in the dynamics of men and masculinities; the internet is transforming social lives; and mens responses to new forms of feminism and post-feminism have conditioned complex contemporary understandings of gender inequality. Consequently, masculinities are changing in important and diverse ways. It is for this reason that sophisticated empirical research is of vital importance to help us understand the shifting and historically patterned dynamics between men and masculinities.

The critical study of men and masculinities emerged from feminist concerns related to the role men played in the reproduction of gender inequality, as well as concerns about the persistence of mens power and the unequal distribution of male privilege and power between men. To date, a great deal of research has converged around hegemonic masculinity as a conceptual tool to theorize these issues. Yet the marked social changes of the past 30 years have seen a diversification of theories and perspectives on how to understand men and masculinities in the contemporary world. Hearn et al. (2012) frame this as a third phase of masculinities research, characterized by diversity and critique, which includes work by a new generation of scholars not embedded in the frameworks of the 1980s (p. 37).

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