Contemporary masculinities in the UK and the US : between bodies and systems

Front Matter ....Pages i-ix
 Contemporary Masculinities in the UK andthe US: Between Bodies and Systems  (Kevin Floyd, Stefan Horlacher)....Pages 1-18
 Modern-Day Mercenaries? Cowboys, GreyMen, and the Emotional Habitus  (Paul Higate)....Pages 19-38
 Rugged Individualists and Systemic Coups: Imagining Mercenary Masculinities in The Dogs of War (1974)  (Charity Fox)....Pages 39-56
 Privileged Crises in the Wake of 9/11: Universalizing Masculinity in Ian McEwan’s Saturday and Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center  (Elahe Haschemi Yekani)....Pages 57-74
 Does the Body Politic Have No Genitals? The Thick of It and the Phallic Nature of the Political Arena  (Wieland Schwanebeck)....Pages 75-97
 The Use of Celebrity Men in Anti-Trafficking and Ending Demand Interventions:Observations on the “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls” Public Service Campaign  (Sarah L. Steele, Tyler Shores)....Pages 99-120
 “Stand It Like a Man”: The Performance of Masculinities in Deadwood  (Brigitte Georgi-Findlay)....Pages 121-130
 The Tragic “Complexity of Manhood”: Masculinity Formations and Performances in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room  (Velina Manolova)....Pages 131-155
 “Guys Like Me Are a Dying Breed”: ThePolitics of Irish-American Masculinity inRecent Movies and TV Series  (Alexandra Schein)....Pages 157-176
 White Supremacists, or the Emasculation of theAmerican White Man  (Michael Kimmel)....Pages 177-200
 Law, Language, and Post-Patriarchal Malaise in William Gaddis’s A Frolic of His Own  (Katja Kanzler)....Pages 201-217
 Wall Street and Representations ofMasculinity in Contemporary American Film and Fiction  (Ulfried Reichardt)....Pages 219-232
Back Matter ....Pages 233-243