This book brings together a collection of case studies that explore the relationship between health and masculinity. It covers various topics related to health, such as mental health, sexual health, eating disorders and coronavirus, and offers health-based perspectives on issues such as migration and gender identity, as these relate to masculinities. In exploring these themes, this book addresses a wide range of communicative contexts, including online forums, interviews, advertising, sex education materials, migrant integration classes, and suicide notes. This book will appeal to linguists interested in health and gender (particularly masculinities), as well as scholars in fields such as psychology, media studies, cultural studies, and other humanities and social science disciplines with a focus on discourse.

Gavin Brookes is a Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster University, UK. His research is situated in the field of discourse studies, where he applies corpus and multimodal approaches to examine discourse and identity, with a particular focus on health and gender amongst other aspects of identity.
Magorzata Chaupnik is Assistant Professor in the School of English at the University of Nottingham, UK. She specialises in the areas of professional and health communication, as well as language, gender and sexuality.

1. Introduction: Masculinities, discourse and mens health (Gavin Brookes and Magorzata Chaupnik).- 2. I am a man but I can cry right now: Representations of masculinity in an anxiety support forum (Paul Baker and Luke Collins).- 3. Mens illness and suicide: Constructing context (Dariusz Galasiski and Justyna Ziókowska).- 4. Opening a new space for health communication: Twitter and the discourse of eating disorders in men (Heike Bartel and James Downs).- 5. Shed Talk: Discourses of men and masculinities in the context of a mens shed (Steven Markham and Esmée Hanna).- 6. My husband struggled in his own way: The construction of masculinities in cis-het female infertility blogs (Karen Kinloch).- 7. Healthy white nationalists: Far right Selbstbilder in a digital age (Scott Burnett).- 8. (Mental) Health in the manosphere (Mark McGlashan).- 9. The sexually abnormal male asylum-seeker: Regimes of normativities in a context of free-spiritedness (Kristine Køhler Mortensen and Tommaso M. Milani).- 10. I got confused when they said youre a girl: Trans mens life histories and the regulation of gender (Angela Zottola, Lucy Jones, Louise Mullany and Alison Pilnick).- 11. 5 ways to give your skin a fresh workout: Semiotized and mediatized consumer masculinity in UK branding and advertising for mens skincare products (Laura Coffey-Glover).- 12. Hi handsome, hi handsome!: Masculinity and discourses of well-being in Indian male cosmetic advertisements (Mie Hiramoto and Shrutika Kapoor).- 13. New men? The medicalisation of mens bodies on the Numan website (Emma Putland, Magorzata Chaupnik and Gavin Brookes).- 14. To be a man is not easy!: Masculinities and discourses of fear and anxiety among male COVID-19 survivors in Ghana (Grace Diabah, Dorothy Pokua Agyepong and Akua Asantewaa Campbell).