Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World

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.

"As the title, Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World, indicates: this is fundamentally a political book. It also makes a major scholarly contribution in engaging very seriously across the social science-humanities boundary, and between social scientists and literary, cultural, and humanities scholars. Such boundary-crossing brings new angles and elements of uncertainty, unsettling, and surprise into the analysis and the politics around men and masculinities, and this is what is needed for change." - Jeff Hearn, Professor, Örebro University, Sweden; Hanken School of Economics, Finland; University of Huddersfield, UK

"Finding new ways for men to live, creating more gender-equal masculinities, is an urgent task for all concerned with gender justice and indeed human survival. Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World engages both social science and creative literature in this exploration. It's a bold and imaginative project, and the book gives readers a varied and hopeful view of what's possible for modern gender relations and the lives of men." - Raewyn Connell, University Chair of Education and Social Work, The University of Sydney, Australia

"In this rich anthology Carabí and Armengol draw together some remarkably wide-ranging reflections on the pitfalls of shifting masculinities in the contemporary global arena. There has never been more need for the sort of cross-cultural dialogue on the possibilities for expanding the life-enhancing,alternative masculinities explored so well in this invaluable collection." - Lynne Segal, Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies, University of London, UK, and author of Out of Time: The Pleasures & Perils of Ageing

Autorentext
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

Inhalt
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