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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Global Masculinities
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	10. 08. 2018
Seiten	:	243
Einband	:	Kartoniert
Höhe	:	210 mm
Breite	:	148 mm
Gewicht	:	339 g
ISBN	:	9783319844992
Sprache	:	Englisch

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Autorinformation

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Stefan Horlacher is Chair of English Literature at TU Dresden, Germany. He is the author of two monographs and the editor or co-editor of 17 books. His latest publications are Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice (2015); Männlichkeit. Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch / Metzler Handbook on Masculinities and Masculinity Studies (2016), and Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives (2016).Kevin Floyd is Professor of English at Kent State University, USA, a recent recipient of Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt grants, and the author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (2009; French translation 2013). His articles have appeared in journals including Social Text, Rethinking Marxism, Cultural Critique, Mediations, Science and Society, and Works and Days. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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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 Formationsand 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.- 

Pressestimmen

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“Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US is a very enjoyable collection of rather heterogeneous texts. … the collection accomplishes very well what it set out to do, namely to raise awareness of the gap Between Bodies and Systems.” (Monika Müller, Anglia, Vol. 138 (4), 2020)

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