Masculinity in Transition
K. Allison Hammer, "Masculinity in Transition"
English | ISBN: 1517914353 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 1517914353 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Locating the roots of toxic masculinity and finding its displacement in unruly culture
Masculinity in Transition analyzes shifting relationships to masculinity in canonical works of twentieth-century literature and film, as well as in twenty-first-century media, performance, and transgender poetics. Focusing on “toxic masculinity,” which has assumed new valence since 2016, K. Allison Hammer traces its roots to a complex set of ideologies embedded in the histories of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and political fraternity, and finds that while toxic strains of masculinity are mainly associated with straight, white men, trans and queer masculinities can be implicated in these systems of power.
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