1. Introduction: Masculinities in Transition: Change, Continuity, Crisis?; Steven Roberts 2. The Limits of Masculinity: Boys, Taste and Cultural Consumption; Victoria Cann 3. Degrees of Masculinity: Working and Middle Class Undergraduate Students' Constructions of Masculine Identities; Nicola Ingram and Richard Waller 4. 'We're Different to Everyone Else': Contradictory Working-Class Masculinities in Contemporary Britain; Michael R.M Ward 5. Oppression, Acceptance or Civil Indifference? Middle-aged Gay Men's Accounts of 'Heterospaces'; Paul Simpson 6. Brothers of Metal! Heavy Metal Masculinities, Moshpit Practices and Homosociality; Gabby Riches 7. Straight Guys do Wear Make-up: Contemporary Masculinities and Investment in Appearance; Brendan Gough, Matthew Hall, Sarah Seymour-Smith 8. Theorizing Masculinities in Contemporary Britain; Eric Anderson and Mark McCormack