Includes index.
Contents: "We was playing naked football the other night" : introduction
"Good story!" : the formal characteristics of male narrative
"So I thought 'Bollocks to it'" : men, stories, and masculinities
"Bad as my mate" : stories in sequence
"She'd made sardines in aspic" : women's stories, men's stories, and the construction of gender
"I'm quite good at Mexican food" : men's narratives in mixed conversation
"Still in shock weren't you darling" : masculinity and the heterosexual couple
"There are problems" : men's talk and contemporary masculinities.
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Men talk : stories in the making of masculinities by Jennifer Coates. ISBN 0631220461. Published by Blackwell Pub. in 2003. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
