About the Book:Rural masculinity is hardly a typical topic for a book. There is something unexpected, faintly disturbing, even humorous about investigating that which has long been seen and yet so often overlooked. But the ways in which we think about and socially organize masculinity are of great significance in the lives of both men and women. In Country Boys we also see that masculinity is no less significant in rural life than in urban life.The essays in this volume offer much-needed insight into the myths and stereotypes as well as the reality of the lives of rural men. Interdisciplinary in scope, the contributions investigate what it means to be a farming man, a logging man, or a boy growing up in a country town and how this impacts both men and women in city and country. Chapters cover not only the United States but also Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand, giving the book an unusually broad scope.Table of Contents: ContentsForewordCarolyn Sachs 1.Country Boys: Masculinity and Rural LifeHugh Campbell, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, and Margaret FinneyPart I: Practices2.Cultivating Dialogue: Sustainable Agriculture and MasculinitiesGregory Peter, Michael Mayerfeld Bell, Susan Jarnagin, and Donna Bauer3.Three Visions of Masculine Success on American FarmsPeggy F. Barlett4.Masculinities in Rural Small Business Ownership: Between Community and CapitalismSharon Bird5.Real Men, Real Locals, and Real Workers: Realizing Masculinity in Small-Town New ZealandHugh Campbell6.Rooted and Routed Masculinities Among the Rural Youth of North Cork and Upper SwaledaleCaitrona N Laoire and Shaun Fielding7.White Men Are This Nation: Right-Wing Militias and the Restoration of Rural American MasculinityMichael Kimmel and Abby L. Ferber8.Rural Mens Health: Situating Risk in the Negotiation of MasculinityWill H. CourtenayPart II: Representations9.Cowboy LoveDavid Bell10.Embodiment and Rural MasculinityJo Little11.Beer Advertising, Rurality, and MasculinityRobin Law12.Changing Masculinity in a Changing Rural Industry: Representations in the Forestry PressBerit Brandth and Marit S. Haugen13.Warrior Heroes and Little Green Men: Soldiers, Military Training, and the Construction of Rural MasculinitiesRachel WoodwardPart III: Changes14.Country/City MenRobert W. Connell15.Gendered Places and Place-Based Gender Identities: Reflections and RefractionsLinda LobaoAbout the ContributorsA Note on the PhotographsReferencesIndex