Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film

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by Josep M. Armengol

Type

Essays

Subject

Sociology

Keywords

masculinity, sociology

Publishing date

2025 (March 26, 2025)

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

1st publishing

2024

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 189 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-3-031-53351-8

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Book Presentation:
This book focuses on the construction of hegemonic masculinity as well as its representations in literature, culture, and film. Although white heterosexual masculinity continues to be the dominant model, it remains, paradoxically, largely invisible in gender terms. While the first three chapters thus offer introductory theoretical perspectives on the latest research on white masculinities, the following chapters concentrate on applying masculinity theory to the analysis of both social constructions and cultural (i.e. literary and film) representations of men’s emotions (with a special focus on new fatherhood models), friendships between men, as well as gender-based violence.

About the Author:
Josep M. Armengol is Professor of English and Gender Studies at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. His recent (co-)edited collections include Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Masculinities and Literary Studies: Intersections and New Directions (2017) and Aging Masculinities in Contemporary U.S. Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

See the publisher website: Palgrave MacMillan