Making Sense of Men's Magazines

1 Introduction.

Reading Magazines.

Theorizing Masculinities.

Consumption, the Media and Audience Studies.

2 The Media and the Market.

The Magazine Market.

Contemporary Media Debates.

Conclusion: the Instability of Hegemonic Masculinities.

3 Editorial Work.

Magazines and Cultural Power.

Interviewing the Editors.

Editorial Insecurities.

Commercial Imperatives Versus Editorial freedom.

The 'Necessary Evil' of Advertising.

Responding to the Market or Creating a Niche?.

Sexy or Pornographic?.

4 Questions of Content.

Boys Love Their Girls.

Don't You Want Me?.

Lexicons of Love or Operator's Manual?.

Consumption and the Sociology of the Body.

Men's Health Magazines, Anxiety and the Body.

Irony and the Cultural Politics of Masculinity.

5 Readings.

Discourses and Dispositions.

Discursive Repertoires.

Constructed Certitude.

Discursive Dispositions.

Cultural Capital.

An Ambivalent Space.

6 Conclusion.

Mediated Cultural Power.

Masculinity and Contemporary Gender Relations.

Commercial Culture.

Appendices.

Notes.

References.

Index.