Research Catalog

Title

Embodying masculinities : towards a history of the male body in U.S. culture and literature / edited by Josep M. Armengol.

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, ©2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Armengol, Josep M., 1976-

Description

vi, 187 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The body remains the most visibly gendered social and cultural construction. Not only does it classify individuals into two different sexes from the very start of their lives, but some of the most obvious social divisions - such as race and nationality, age and physical appearance, religion, or class - are also written on the body. Although most studies have focused on women's bodies, the present volume seeks to explore both the construction and deconstruction of the male body in and through U.S. culture and literature from the early twentieth century up to the present. In so doing, this book illustrates not only the changing nature of the male body but also its recurrent use as a political weapon throughout U.S. cultural and literary history. Embodying Masculinities sketches the first history of the male body in modern U.S. culture and literature. The book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender and masculinity studies as well as those in American studies."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Masculinity studies : literary and cultural representations, 2161-2692 ; vol. 3

Uniform Title

Masculinity studies ; v. 3.

Subject

• Men
• Masculinity
• Masculinity in popular culture
• Human body > Social aspects
• Körper
• Mann
• Männlichkeit
• Literatur
• Kultur
• Amerika

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Towards a history of the male body in U.S. culture and literature : an introduction / Josep M. Armengol -- The complete body of modernity in the 1920s : negotiating hegemonic and subordinated masculinities in Ernest Hemingway's The sun also rises / Teresa Requena-Pelegri -- Embodying the Depression : male bodies in 1930s American culture and literature / Josep M. Armengol -- Invisibilizing the male body : exploring the incorporeality of masculinity in 1950s American culture / Mercè Cuenca -- Breaking the mold : male rock performance, glam, and the (re- )imagination of the male body in the 1960s and 1970s / Esther Zaplana -- The cyborg and the representation of masculinity and femininity in the American science fiction literature and film of the 1980s / Ángel Mateos-Aparicio -- Action and reaction : the villain's body and its role in shaping the heroic body in Hollywood action films of the 1990s / Amaya Fernández-Menicucci -- Leonidas's new body : the failed hyper-masculinization of the hero in Frank Miller and Lynn Varley's graphic novel 300 (1998) and its 2006 film adaptation / Sara Martin -- Voicing the father's body in Janice Mirikitani's Asian American poetry / María Isabel Seguro -- Contemporary terrorist bodies : the (de- )construction of Arab masculinities in the United States / Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias.

Call Number

JFE 16-879

ISBN

• 9781433118913
• 1433118912
• 9781453909621
• 1453909621

LCCN

• 2012041676
• 40021956307

OCLC

818327288

Title

Embodying masculinities : towards a history of the male body in U.S. culture and literature / edited by Josep M. Armengol.

Imprint

New York : Peter Lang, ©2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Masculinity studies : literary and cultural representations, 2161-2692 ; vol. 3

Masculinity studies ; v. 3.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Armengol, Josep M., 1976-

Other Standard Identifier

40021956307

Research Call Number

JFE 16-879