Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 14-14
Reconstructing Masculinity or Ending Manhood? The Potential and Limitations of Transforming Masculine Subjectivities for Gender Equality....Pages 17-34
Men’s Antiviolence Activism and the Construction of Gender-Equitable Masculinities....Pages 35-50
Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach....Pages 51-62
Aging Beyond Masculinities, or, the Penis as Failed Synecdoche....Pages 63-91
Front Matter....Pages 92-92
On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, Revisited....Pages 97-103
Authoritarian, Missing, or Nurturing? Fathers in American Drama....Pages 105-114
Fathers Who Care: Alternative Father Figures in Annie E. Proulx’s The Shipping News and Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections....Pages 115-128
Alternative Masculinities in Richard Ford’s Fiction and/versus Susanne Bier’s In a Better World....Pages 131-144
Facing Xenocidal Guilt: Atypical Masculinity in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Saga....Pages 145-157
Progressive Masculinities: Envisioning Alternative Models for Black Manhood in Toni Morrison’s Novels....Pages 161-173
Meeting Halfway: Contradictions, Transformation, and Alternative Masculinities in Arturo Islas’s La Mollie and the King of Tears....Pages 175-191
Reconfiguring the Male: Masculinities beyond Capitalism in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park....Pages 195-203
Transitory Masculinities in Post-9/11 Arab American Literature Written by Women....Pages 205-217
Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World....Pages 219-234
Back Matter....Pages 235-244