Straight guys do wear make-up: Contemporary masculinities and investment in appearance

Debating Modern Masculinities: Change, Continuity, Crisis?

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 106-124

  Gough, Brendan ^a   Hall, Matthew ^b   Seymour Smith, Sarah ^b  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appearance; Embodiment; Male vulnerability; Masculinities; Metrosexual

Indexed keywords

EID: 85015438154     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137394842.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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