Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World

2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-46255-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

Reihe: Global Masculinities

Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-feminist ways. Essays explore new alternative models of masculinity by a wide variety of contemporary authors and texts, ranging from Paul Auster to Jonathan Franzen.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carabí, À.

Armengol, J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Àngels Carabí and Josep M. Armengol PART I: ALTERNATIVE MASCULINITIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE 1. Reconstructing Masculinity or Ending Manhood? The Potential and Limitations of Transforming Masculine Subjectivities for Gender Equality; Bob Pease 2. Men's Anti-Violence Activism and the Construction of Gender-Equitable Masculinities; Michael Flood 3. Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach; Matthew Gutmann 4. Aging Beyond Masculinities, or, the Penis as Failed Synecdoche; David Leverenz PART II: ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF MANHOOD: REPRESENTATIONS IN U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE 5. On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, Revisited; David Leverenz 6. Authoritarian, Missing, or Nurturing? Fathers in American Drama; Barbara Ozieblo 7. Fathers Who Care: Alternative Father Figures in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Teresa Requena-Pelegrí 8. Alternative Masculinities in Richard Ford's Fiction and/vs. Susanne Bier's In a Better World; Josep M. Armengol 9. Facing Xenocidal Guilt: Atypical Masculinity in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Saga; Sara Martín 10. Progressive Masculinities: Envisioning Alternative Models for Black Manhood in Toni Morrison's Novels; Mar Gallego 11. Meeting Halfway: Contradictions, Transformation and Alternative Masculinities in Arturo Islas' La Mollie and the King of Tears; Aishih Wehbe-Herrera 12. Reconfiguring the Male: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism in Paul Auster's Sunset Park; Mercè Cuenca 13. Transitory Masculinities in Post-9/11 Arab American Literature Written by Women; Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias Epilogue: Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World; Victor J. Seidler

Über Autor(innen)

Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias, University of Barcelona, Spain

Mercè Cuenca, University of Barcelona, Spain

Michael Flood, University of Wollongong, Australia

Mar Gallego, University of Huelva, Spain

Matthew Gutmann, Brown University, USA

David Leverenz, University of Florida, USA

Sara Martín, University of Barcelona, Spain

Bob Pease, Deakin University, Australia

Teresa Requena-Pelegrí, University of Barcelona, Spain
Barbara Ozieblo, University of Málaga, Spain

Victor J. Seidler, University of London, UK

Aishih Wehbe-Herrera, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK