Contemporary masculinities in the UK and the US : between bodies and systems /: between bodies and systems. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Contemporary masculinities in the United Kingdom and the United States
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Stefan Horlacher, Kevin Floyd.
• Editors: Horlacher, Stefan
• Contents: Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US: Between Bodies and Systems; Kevin Floyd and Stefan Horlacher -- Modern Day Mercenaries? Cowboys, Grey Men, and the Emotional Habitus; Paul Higate -- Rugged Individualists and Systemic Coups: Imagining Mercenary Masculinities in The Dogs of War (1974); Charity Fox -- Privileged Crises in the Wake of 9/11: Universalizing Masculinity in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center; Elahe Haschemi Yekani -- Does the Body Politic Have No Genitals? The Thick of It and the Phallic Nature of the Political Arena; Wieland Schwanebeck -- The Use of Celebrity Men in Anti-Trafficking and Ending Demand Interventions: Observations on the “Real men don’t buy girls” Public Service Campaign; Sarah L. Steele and Tyler Shores -- “Stand It Like a Man”: The Performance of Masculinities in Deadwood; Brigitte Georgi-Findlay -- The Tragic “Complexity of Manhood”: Masculinity Formations and Performances in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room; Velina Manolova -- “Guys Like Me Are a Dying Breed”: The Politics of Irish-American Masculinity in Recent Movies and TV Series; Alexandra Schein -- White Supremacists, or the Emasculation of the American White Man; Michael Kimmel -- Law, Language, and Post-Patriarchal Malaise in William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own; Katja Kanzler -- Wall Street and Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Film and Fiction; Ulfried Reichardt -- Index -- .
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 243 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 155.3/32; Social sciences; Men -- Great Britain; Masculinity -- Great Britain; Men -- United States; Masculinity -- United States; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Life Stages / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / General; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Lifespan Development; PSYCHOLOGY / General; Masculinity; Men; Social Science -- General; Cultural studies; Sociology; Social Science -- Gender Studies; Gender studies, gender groups; Great Britain; United States; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319508207; 3319508202
• Related ISBNs: 3319508199; 9783319508191
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.