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VALERIE WALKERDINE Distinguished Research Professor in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK. She is editor of the journal Subjectivity. Her previous books include Growing up Girl: Psychosocial Explorations of Gender and Class and Children, Gender, Videogames: Towards a Relational Approach to Multimedia. She is also a practising mixed media and installation artist. LUIS JIMENEZ Senior Lecturer at the School of Psychology, University of East London, UK. He is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, physician and sociologist. He has researched and published socio-psychoanalytic aspects on male emotional communication as well as psychosocial research on changes on gendered aspects of male identities within a context of de-industrialisation in the UK. Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction: Hiraeth Two Hundred Years of Iron and Steel Advanced Liberalism Communal Beingness and Affect Deindustrialisation, Suffering, Crisis and Catastrophe Producing Pride in Masculinity: The Hard Steelworker The Next Generation Women, Gays and Mammy’s Boys What About the Women? To the Future? Bibliography Index
