This report focuses and builds upon work on
‘suicidal masculinities’ (Canetto & Cleary, 2012;
Scourfield, 2005) in order to contribute to sociocultural
explanations of the higher suicide risk
among men of lower socio-economic status in
middle age. I begin by introducing social scientific
research on masculinities. The report then goes on
to explore a variety of ways in which masculinities
might contribute to suicidal behaviour.