Full Description
Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-feminist ways. Essays explore new alternative models of masculinity by a wide variety of contemporary authors and texts, ranging from Paul Auster to Jonathan Franzen.
Contents
Introduction; Àngels Carabí and Josep M. Armengol PART I: ALTERNATIVE MASCULINITIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE 1. Reconstructing Masculinity or Ending Manhood? The Potential and Limitations of Transforming Masculine Subjectivities for Gender Equality; Bob Pease 2. Men's Anti-Violence Activism and the Construction of Gender-Equitable Masculinities; Michael Flood 3. Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach; Matthew Gutmann 4. Aging Beyond Masculinities, or, the Penis as Failed Synecdoche; David Leverenz PART II: ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF MANHOOD: REPRESENTATIONS IN U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE 5. On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, Revisited; David Leverenz 6. Authoritarian, Missing, or Nurturing? Fathers in American Drama; Barbara Ozieblo 7. Fathers Who Care: Alternative Father Figures in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Teresa Requena-Pelegrí 8. Alternative Masculinities in Richard Ford's Fiction and/vs. Susanne Bier's In a Better World; Josep M. Armengol 9. Facing Xenocidal Guilt: Atypical Masculinity in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Saga; Sara Martín 10. Progressive Masculinities: Envisioning Alternative Models for Black Manhood in Toni Morrison's Novels; Mar Gallego 11. Meeting Halfway: Contradictions, Transformation and Alternative Masculinities in Arturo Islas' La Mollie and the King of Tears; Aishih Wehbe-Herrera 12. Reconfiguring the Male: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism in Paul Auster's Sunset Park; Mercè Cuenca 13. Transitory Masculinities in Post-9/11 Arab American Literature Written by Women; Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias Epilogue: Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World; Victor J. Seidler
