Bromance: Male Friendship, Love and Sport

by Stefan Robinson and Eric Anderson

Unraveling the stereotype that men's friendships are unemotional and shallow, this book provides the first detailed account of the bromance that exists among young men. Drawing on one year of ethnography and 20 in-depth interviews among a university sport team, the authors show that these men reject traditional masculine boundaries, instead prioritizing an emotional and tactile form of friendship. Chapters detail the cultural shift in society's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030986098
• ISBN13: 9783030986094
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Unsatisfied Yet Still Looking

I looked on google books, amazon, and Harvard University Library websites for a book about platonic male affection & endearment yet found nothing. This book is too focused on sports contextualizing male bonding; I also don't like the fact that the book's setting isn't exclusively American male bonding attachment behavioral norms.