Alternative masculinities for a changing world
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Alternative masculinities for a changing world
(Global masculinities)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Angels Carabi 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-Pelegri 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 Martin 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
- Merce 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
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