Subverting Masculinity : : Hegemonic and Alternative Versions of Masculinity in Contemporary Culture /

Subverting Masculinity : : Hegemonic and Alternative Versions of Masculinity in Contemporary Culture / / edited by Russell West, Frank Lay.

Contemporary Western societies are currently witness to a "crisis of masculinity" but also to an intriguing diversification of images of masculinity. Once relatively stable regimes of masculine gender representation appear to have been replaced by a wider spectrum of varieties of masculine...

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Superior document:GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture ; 1
TeilnehmendeR:
Lay, Frank,
West, Russell,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
Year of Publication:2000
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture ; 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Russell WEST: Men, the Market and Models of Masculinity in Contemporary Culture: Introduction.
  • Part I: Cinema
  • Elisabeth KRIMMER: Nobody Wants to Be a Man Anymore? Cross-Dressing in American Movies of the 90's
  • Russell WEST: "This is a Man's Country": Masculinity and Australian National Identity in Crocodile Dundee
  • Stefan BRANDT: American Culture X: Identity, Homosexuality and the Search for a New American Hero
  • Neil BADMINGTON: Disclosure' s Disclosure
  • Part II: Literature
  • Stefan HERBRECHTER: From Trainspotting to Filth - Masculinity and Cultural Politics in Irvine Welsh's Writings
  • Madelena GONZALEZ: The Moor's Last Sigh (Salman Rushdie): Marginal Alternatives, the Reconstruction of Identity through the Carnival of Indetermination.
  • Monika MÜLLER: From Hard-Boiled Detective to Kaspar Hauser?: Masculinity and Writing in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
  • Peter MIDDLETON: Patriarchal Poetry: Fathers and Sons in Contemporary Poetry
  • Part III: Diverse Cultural Forms
  • Eleanor HOGAN: "Manhood," "Boyhood" and Reading the Melbourne Weekend Papers: the My(th)op(oet)ic Consumption of Family Life
  • Rainer EMIG: Queering the Straights: Straightening Queers: Commodified Sexualities and Hegemonic Masculinity
  • Frank LAY: "Sometimes We Wonder Who the Real Men Are" - Masculinity and Contemporary Popular Music
  • Ruth MAYER: The White Hunter: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Clint Eastwood, and the Art of Acting Male in Africa
  • Notes on Contributors
  • CLASSIFICATION TERMS: Gender / Masculinity / Cultural Studies.

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