(Un)HealthyFootnote¹

1. We use this parenthetical to draw attention to the mutual constitution of healthy and unhealthy masculinities. It is impossible to simply disentangle and equate one form of masculinity, for example, with one form of healthy or unhealthy practice, behavior, identity, or subjectivity. As we discuss, men's “healthiness” is paradoxically and problematically often founded in the active dismissal of health concerns for men. Thus, men's health is simultaneously its lack, as there can be no health without some level of unhealth.

Men, Masculinities, and the Geographies of Health

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