Focusing on global examples of gender equality, this collection explores non-dominant models of masculinity that represent gender equity in pro-feminist ways. Essays explore new alternative models of masculinity by a wide variety of contemporary authors and texts, ranging from Paul Auster to Jonathan Franzen.

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Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias, University of Barcelona, Spain Mercè Cuenca, University of Barcelona, Spain Michael Flood, University of Wollongong, Australia Mar Gallego, University of Huelva, Spain Matthew Gutmann, Brown University, USA David Leverenz, University of Florida, USA Sara Martín, University of Barcelona, Spain Bob Pease, Deakin University, Australia Teresa Requena-Pelegrí, University of Barcelona, Spain Barbara Ozieblo, University of Málaga, Spain Victor J. Seidler, University of London, UK Aishih Wehbe-Herrera, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

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Introduction; Àngels Carabí and Josep M. Armengol PART I: ALTERNATIVE MASCULINITIES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVE 1. Reconstructing Masculinity or Ending Manhood? The Potential and Limitations of Transforming Masculine Subjectivities for Gender Equality; Bob Pease 2. Men's Anti-Violence Activism and the Construction of Gender-Equitable Masculinities; Michael Flood 3. Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach; Matthew Gutmann 4. Aging Beyond Masculinities, or, the Penis as Failed Synecdoche; David Leverenz PART II: ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF MANHOOD: REPRESENTATIONS IN U.S. LITERATURE AND CULTURE 5. On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, Revisited; David Leverenz 6. Authoritarian, Missing, or Nurturing? Fathers in American Drama; Barbara Ozieblo 7. Fathers Who Care: Alternative Father Figures in Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections; Teresa Requena-Pelegrí 8. Alternative Masculinities in Richard Ford's Fiction and/vs. Susanne Bier's In a Better World; Josep M. Armengol 9. Facing Xenocidal Guilt: Atypical Masculinity in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Saga; Sara Martín 10. Progressive Masculinities: Envisioning Alternative Models for Black Manhood in Toni Morrison's Novels; Mar Gallego 11. Meeting Halfway: Contradictions, Transformation and Alternative Masculinities in Arturo Islas' La Mollie and the King of Tears; Aishih Wehbe-Herrera 12. Reconfiguring the Male: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism in Paul Auster's Sunset Park; Mercè Cuenca 13. Transitory Masculinities in Post-9/11 Arab American Literature Written by Women; Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias Epilogue: Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World; Victor J. Seidler