Title: Boys don't cry?
Description: We take for granted the idea that white, middle-class, straight masculinity connotes total control of emotions, emotional inexpressivity, and emotional isolation. That men repress their feelings as they seek their fortunes in the competitive worlds of business and politics seems to be a given. This collection of essays by prominent literary and cultural critics rethinks such commonly held views by addressing the history and politics of emotion in prevailing narratives about masculinity. How did the story of the emotionally stifled U.S. male come into being? What are its political stakes?
Subjects: Masculinity in literature, History and criticism, Psychology, Men, American literature, Men in literature, Attitudes, Narration (Rhetoric), Emotions in literature, American literature, history and criticism, Men, attitudes, Men, psychology, Hommes dans la littérature, Hommes, Masculinité dans la littérature, Narration, Psychologie, LITERARY CRITICISM, American, General, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Men's Studies, English, Languages & Literatures