Masculinity in transition / K. Allison Hammer.

"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 mascul...

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Main Author: Hammer, K. Allison, 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Rejecting "American" Manhood. Part I: Challenging Phallic Supremacy. "She's a Pistol": Female Phallicism ; "When I Was a Boy": Boi/Boyhood and the Unworking of Masculinity
  • Part II: Challenging Conceptions of the Nation. The "Not (Quite) Yet" of a New Collectivity: Feminist Masculinity and the American Western ; Virtue Is Divided: Unruly Alliances in Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein
  • Part III: Challenging Masculine Impenetrability. "Skin of His Hand against the Skin of My Back": HIV/AIDS Self-Writing and Film of the 1980s and '90s ; "A Man Is a Worker": Economic Penetrability, Labor Abuses, and Landlessness
  • Conclusion: Toward the Future of Masculinity and Relationality.