Editors' Foreword 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

Foodwork or Foodplay? Men's Domestic Cooking, Privilege and Leisure 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

Market research documents a rising passion for cooking among men. Yet, some feminists argue that men see cooking as ‘leisure’ in part because they have distance from day-to-day care obligations. Howev...

Embodying Risk: Managing Father-child Intimacy and the Display of Nudity in Families 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

This article interrogates how parents manage public–private practices of father–child intimacy and how the dis/embodied male impacts on the display of nudity in families. Drawing on empirical research...

Middle-class Mothers' Moralities and 'Concerted Cultivation': Class Others, Ambivalence and Excess 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

Drawing on a small qualitative study of mothers in the UK, this article argues that although concerted cultivation and intensive parenting are legitimated as ‘good’ parenting, these discourses have un...

Boys Will Be Boys ... Won't They? Change and Continuities in Contemporary Young Working-class Masculinities 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

This article contributes to the literature concerning the construction of working-class masculine identity in a context of unprecedented social transformation. Drawing on qualitative interviews with 2...

The 'Beauty' of Male Circumcision in Japan: Gender, Sexuality and the Male Body in a Medical Practice 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

This article introduces the construct of ‘the beauty of male circumcision’ to analyse male circumcision in Japan. Japanese men are largely circumcised at beauty and aesthetic clinics, neonatal circumc...

Disability in the Labour Market: An Exploration of Concepts of the Ideal Worker and Organisational Fit that Disadvantage Employees with Impairments 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

The adverse employment effects that attach to disability are empirically well established. They are large and persistent. This is a conceptual article that investigates the source of this deep and end...

Popular Culture, Sport and the 'Hero'-fication of British Militarism 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

A number of culturally significant practices have become incorporated into promoting and normalising British militarism in the face of increasing controversies surrounding Britain’s role in the ‘War o...

The Co-construction of Shame in the Context of Poverty: Beyond a Threat to the Social Bond 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

Scheff (2000, 2003) has argued that shame, while recognised as a social emotion, is frequently explored outside of the social matrix and with limited reference to its role in human behaviour. Drawing ...

The Global Financial Crisis and Individual Distress: The Role of Subjective Comparisons after the Collapse of the Icelandic Economy 9 Aug 2013 | 04:22 pm

Sociologists have emphasized that abrupt social changes can evoke subjective deprivation that can create subjective injustice and emotional distress. The global economic crisis offers an opportunity t...