Overview
- Illustrates how social notions of masculinity not only affect their cultural representations, but also how such representations may, and indeed do, effect social change, providing alternative models of aging masculinities that challenge social prejudices of the same
- Draws upon both an interdisciplinary and intersectional methodology, examining not only the interrelationship of age and gender, as well as aging and gender studies, but also cultural variations by factors like race, ethnicity, sexuality, and religious affiliation
- Questions the widely held assumption that aging is less of an issue for men through close readings of contemporary works
Part of the book series: Global Masculinities (GLMAS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Gendering Age
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Men’s Aging in Popular Fiction
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Aging Beyond Whiteness
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About this book
Reviews
“Revisiting contemporary US fiction by focusing on cultural representations of aging masculinities not only encourages a reassessment of such texts in terms of dominant cultural beliefs that challenges prevailing perspectives on gender and age, but more importantly offers insights into how the form influences our perceptions by either supporting orsubverting preconceived notions of masculinity. Literary representations of masculine embodiment show not only transgressions and expressions of power, but more significantly male vulnerabilities in different and unexpected contexts.” (Roberta Maierhofer, Center for Inter-American Studies, University of Graz, Austria)
“This book is a much-needed and impressive contribution to the fields of age studies and gender studies, both of which have overlooked the study of men and masculinity. Focusing on representations of aging and old men in U.S. fiction, contributors produce a rich array of images and interpretations that challenge the dominant masculinity script and redress the cultural invisibility of older men. This is an important book that scholars and students need to read.” (Thomas R. Cole, McGovern Chair in Medical Humanities and Director of the McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, University of Texas, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Josep M. Armengol is Professor of U.S. Literature and Gender Studies at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. He is the author of Masculinities in Black and White: Manliness and Whiteness in (African) American Literature (2014), among others, and is Director of the project ‘No Country for Old Men? Representations of Masculinity and Aging in Contemporary U.S. Fiction’.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction
Editors: Josep M. Armengol
Series Title: Global Masculinities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71596-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71595-3Published: 27 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71598-4Published: 28 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71596-0Published: 26 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-3858
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3866
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 192
Topics: North American Literature, Contemporary Literature, American Culture, Culture and Gender