European perspectives on men and masculinities : national and transnational approaches /

This edited volume represents the culmination of a nearly decadelong effort to study men and masculinity as manifested throughout Europe. Under the auspices of the umbrella research group known as CROME, researchers from 14 European countries attempted to collect common core sets of data on four main areas in men's lives: men's relations to home and work; men's relations to social exclusion (i.e., deprivation, poverty, unemployment); men's violence; and men's health. The team gathered data in these four topical areas from four primary sources in each country: academic and analytical literature; national statistical sources; government legal and policy statements on men; and media representations and analyses. The result of this systematic effort is a cross-sectional, cross-national, comprehensive, well-researched volume that assists readers in understanding not only the male condition throughout Europe in these four topical areas, but also the national subtleties and nuances that exist and contribute to the complexity in the construction of a "European Union" masculinity. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty. J. R. Mitrano Central Connecticut State University