TY - BOOK AU - Armengol,Josep M. ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film SN - 9783031533495 AV - PN695-779 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - America KW - Literatures KW - Sex KW - Contemporary Literature KW - North American Literature KW - Gender Studies N1 - 1 Introduction -- 2 Studies of masculinities: an introduction -- 3 Poststructuralism and the «dissolution» of masculine identity -- 4 Masculinity as representation -- 5 Boys don’t cry? Masculinity and the politics of emotion -- 6 Dangerous liaisons? Friendships between men in Western history and culture -- 7 Masculinity as violence? Cultural and literary re-visions -- 8 Conclusions N2 - This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms. While the first three chapters thus offer introductory theoretical perspectives on the latest research on white masculinities, the following chapters concentrate on applying masculinity theory to the analysis of both social constructions and cultural (i.e. literary and film) representations of men’s emotions (with a special focus on new fatherhood models), friendships between men, as well as gender-based violence. Josep M. Armengol is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His recent (co-)edited collections include Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions (2017) and Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021) UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53349-5 ER -