Masculinity Studies – serie
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Queering Iberia
Iberian Masculinities at the Margins
Inbunden, 2012
957 kr
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Questioning the traditional association between machismo and Hispanic culture, this collection of essays focuses on revisiting archetypes of masculinity from medieval Iberia to the present by placing them in the context of the divergent counter-images that have always existed below the radar. The …
Embodying Masculinities
Towards a History of the Male Body in U.S. Culture and Literature
Inbunden, 2013
1095 kr
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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 …
Hispanic (LGT) Masculinities in Transition
Inbunden, 2014
851 kr
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The objective of Hispanic (LGT) Masculinities in Transition is to investigate the cultural representations/intersections of masculinity and sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, and transgenders) in Spain between the passing of the Law of Social Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) and the …
Male Body as Advertisement
Masculinities in Hispanic Media
Av Juan Rey
Inbunden, 2015
908 kr
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The Male Body as Advertisement: Masculinities in Hispanic Media offers a multidisciplinary view of the body of men, of its practices and attributes, of its features, and, most importantly, of its use as a persuasive and expressive resource. Just as it occurred with the female body, the male body …
Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers
Affirmation and Resistance
Inbunden, 2016
1182 kr
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Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers: Affirmation and Resistance examines the portrayals of Arab masculinities in novels published after September 11, 2001, by women of Arab descent in the United States. The book provides a historical account of the mainstream …
«Wooden Man»?
Masculinities in the Work of J.M. Coetzee («Boyhood», «Youth» and «Summertime»)
Av Daniel Matias, Jose Armengol
Inbunden, 2017
1499 kr
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This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer’s trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee’s trilogy provides a panoramic view of a man’s …
All About Almodóvar’s Men
Av Juan Rey
Inbunden, 2017
1267 kr
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Pedro Almodóvar is an internationally acclaimed Spanish director. The national and international fascination over Almodóvar’s cinema lies in his ability to reflect the problems of contemporary society, his lucidity in combining the urban and the rural, his ability to express the frustrations of …
Men on the Screen
Re-visions of Masculinity in Spanish Cinema (1939-2019)
Av Juan Rey
Inbunden, 2020
1274 kr
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Cinema, whether it is understood as entertainment, business, criticism, or art, is always a reflection of the society in which it is born. Men on the Screen is a review of masculinity in cinema made in Spain by Spanish directors from 1939 to the present. The objective of this volume is, then, to …
Raggedy Men
Masculinity in the Mad Max" Films
Av Ezekiel Crago, Jose Armengol
Inbunden, 2020
1167 kr
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This book investigates anxieties over the role of white masculinity in American society after World War Two articulated in post-apocalyptic film. Using an interdisciplinary approach that employs methods of cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race theory, it argues that masculinity acts …
Making the Best of a Bad Job
Representations of Disability, Gender and Old Age in the Novels of Samuel Beckett
Av Manuel Barberá López, Jose Armengol
Inbunden, 2021
1147 kr
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This book explores the representations of disability, gender and old age in the novels of Samuel Beckett. His works go against the foundations of Western thought, which has been traditionally focused on success, clarity, learning and ability, while Beckett chose to focus on failure, confusion, …
