Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the Us: Between Bodies and Systems

Book Overview

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 Formations and 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.-

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319508199
• ISBN13: 9783319508191
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"