Performing Masculinity: Body, Self and Identity in Modern Fiji

Geir Henning Presterudstuen provides an ethnographic account of how
men in the multicultural urban centres of Fiji perceive, construct and
perform masculinities in the context of rapid social change. Theoretically
informed by critical feminist theories, postcolonialism, R.W. Connell's work
on masculinities and a Bourdieuan conceptualization of the body, this
book explores how notions of masculinity, manhood and the male body
are shaped by the conflicting social forces of Fijian tradition, moderni...