Masculinity and Men's Lifestyle Magazines

This book explores the burgeoning genre of men’s lifestyle magazines, their production and consumption, and related constructions of masculinity.

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• Interdisciplinary exploration of the burgeoning genre of men’s lifestyle magazines.
  
• Addresses key questions about the production and consumption of men’s lifestyle magazines, and their contribution to current gender politics.
  
• Contributors make use of a range of methodologies, including interviews with magazine editors, focus groups with readers, corpus linguistics and discourse analysis.
  
• Draws on scholarship from sociology, media studies, cultural studies and linguistics.
  
• Uses new research data, including comparative data from different countries, gay magazines and sporting magazines.