K. Allison Hammer

Masculinity in Transition

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Masculinity in Transition traces the roots of "toxic masculinity," showing that while toxic strains of masculinity are mainly associated with straight, white men, trans* and queer masculinities often reiterate similar patterns of behavior. Arguing that these malignant forms of masculinity can be displaced, K. Allison Hammer's bold rethinking lays bare the underlying fragility of normative masculinity"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781517914356
• ISBN-10: 1517914353
• Artikelnr.: 67741860

Autorenporträt

K. Allison Hammer is assistant professor and coordinator of women, gender, and sexuality studies at Southern Illinois University.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Introduction: Rejecting “American” Manhood
Part I: Challenging Phallic Supremacy
1. “She’s a Pistol”: Female Phallicism
2. “When I Was a Boy”: Boi/Boyhood and the Unworking of Masculinity
Part II: Challenging Conceptions of the Nation
3. The “Not (Quite) Yet” of a New Collectivity: Feminist Masculinity and
the American Western
4. Virtue Is Divided: Unruly Alliances in Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein
Part III: Challenging Masculine Impenetrability
5. “Skin of His Hand against the Skin of My Back”: HIV/AIDS Self-Writing
and Film of the 1980s and ’90s
6. “A Man Is a Worker”: Economic Penetrability, Labor Abuses, and
Landlessness
Conclusion: Toward the Future of Masculinity and Relationality
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index