Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US
. Ed(S): Horlacher, Stefan; Floyd, Kevin
€ 119.18
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US
hardcover. Editor(s): Horlacher, Stefan; Floyd, Kevin. Series: Global Masculinities. Num Pages: 246 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
Global Masculinities
Number of Pages
243
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319508191
SKU
V9783319508191
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About . Ed(S): Horlacher, Stefan; Floyd, Kevin
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US
“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)