Rethinking Transnational Men : Beyond, Between and Within Nations

This volume gathers contributors from around the globe to explore various issues relating to men, gender relations, and transnationalism. Transnational processes - transnationalizations - take various forms, with major substantive, policy and theoretical implications for gender relations. In this context, men and gender relations can no longer be understood only locally or nationally. Thus, this collection focuses on men considered transnationally - that is, as “transnational men” - recognizing both stable transnational patterns and transnational processes of flux, especially at this current historical moment.

The world is becoming more transnational. This edited collection examines how the immense transnational changes in the contemporary world are being produced by and are affecting different men and masculinities. It seeks to shift debates on men, masculinities and gender relations from the strictly local and national context to much greater concern with the transnational and global. Established and rising scholars from Asia, Australia, Europe and North America explore subjects including economies and business corporations; sexualities and the sex trade; information and communication technologies and cyberspace; migration; war, the military and militarism; politics; nationalism; and symbolism and image-making.