Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US
Between Bodies and Systems
Editors: Horlacher, Stefan, Floyd, Kevin (Eds.)
Free Preview- Breaks new ground in masculinity studies
- Contains interdisciplinary, ethnographic, sociological and intermedial analyses
- Explores the relations between different and divergent manifestations of masculinity
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This book is about ways to understand masculinity as systemic and corporeal, structural and performative all at once. It argues that the tension between an understanding of “masculinity” in the singular and “masculinities” in the plural poses a problem that can better be understood in relation to a concomitant tension: between systems on the one hand, and bodies on the other - between abstract structures such as patriarchy, kinship or even language, and the various concrete forms taken by gendered, individuated corporeality.
The contributions collected here investigate how masculinities become apparent, how they take shape and what systemic functions they have. What, they ask, are the relations between the abstract and corporeal, metaphorical and metonymic manifestations of masculinity? How are we to understand masculinity as a simultaneously systemic and corporeal, performative concept? - About the authors
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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. - Reviews
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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)
- Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US: Between Bodies and Systems
Pages 1-18
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Modern-Day Mercenaries? Cowboys, Grey Men, and the Emotional Habitus
Pages 19-38
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Rugged Individualists and Systemic Coups: Imagining Mercenary Masculinities in The Dogs of War (1974)
Pages 39-56
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Privileged Crises in the Wake of 9/11: Universalizing Masculinity in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center
Pages 57-74
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Does the Body Politic Have No Genitals? The Thick of It and the Phallic Nature of the Political Arena
Pages 75-97
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US
- Book Subtitle
- Between Bodies and Systems
- Editors
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- Stefan Horlacher
- Kevin Floyd
- Series Title
- Global Masculinities
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-50820-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-50820-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-50819-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-84499-2
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 243
- Number of Illustrations
- 5 b/w illustrations
- Topics
