Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World [electronic resource] /
Carabí, À.editor.
Armengol, J.editor.
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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Alternative Masculinities: An Interdisciplinary Perspective; Chapter 1 Reconstructing Masculinity or Ending Manhood? ; Chapter 2 Men's Antiviolence Activism and the Construction of Gender-Equitable Masculinities; Chapter 3 Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach; Chapter 4 Aging Beyond Masculinities, or, the Penis as Failed Synecdoche; Part II Alternative Models of Manhood: Representations in American Literature and Culture; Section One: New Fathers
Chapter 5 On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, RevisitedChapter 6 Authoritarian, Missing, or Nurturing? Fathers in American Drama; Chapter 7 Fathers Who Care: Alternative Father Figures in Annie E. Proulx's The Shipping News and Jonathan Franzen's The Corr; Section Two: Nonviolent Models of Manhood; Chapter 8 Alternative Masculinities in Richard Ford's Fiction and/versus Susanne Bier's In a Better World; Chapter 9 Facing Xenocidal Guilt: Atypical Masculinity in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Saga; Section Three: Alternative Gender Relations
Chapter 10 Progressive Masculinities: Envisioning Alternative Models for Black Manhood in Toni Morrison's NovelsChapter 11 Meeting Halfway: Contradictions, Transformation, and Alternative Masculinities in Arturo Islas's La Mollie and the; Section Four: The Alternative of Crossing Boundaries; Chapter 12 Reconfiguring the Male: Masculinities beyond Capitalism in Paul Auster's Sunset Park; Chapter 13 Transitory Masculinities in Post-9/11 Arab American Literature Written by Women; Epilogue Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World; List of Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Culture.
Cultural studies.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Sociology of Culture.
Cultural Studies.