Stefan (Hrsg.) Horlacher

Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US

Between Bodies and Systems

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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 functi… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Floyd, Kevin (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-3-319-50819-1
EAN: 9783319508191
Produktnummer: 21845830
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 243 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.8 cm 448 g
Abbildungen: Book; Bibliographie
Gewicht: 448

Über den Autor

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 (2016).Kevin Floyd is Professor of English at Kent State University, USA, a recent recipient of Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt grants, and the author of The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism (2009; French translation 2013). His articles have appeared in journals including Social Text, Rethinking Marxism, Cultural Critique, Mediations, Science and Society, and Works and Days.