Contemporary masculinities in the UK and the US : between bodies and systems /: between bodies and systems. ([2017])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Contemporary masculinities in the UK and the US : between bodies and systems /: between bodies and systems. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- Contemporary masculinities in the UK and the US : between bodies and systems
- 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.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.344465
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