Masculinity/Femininity: Re-Framing a Fragmented Debate

Table of Contents
Introduction • Ambrogia Cereda and Jon Ross
Part 1: Men(hood)
	The Emergence of the ‘Slim Macho’ Trend in Japan as an Example of Adjusting Local Masculinity Standards in the Age of Westernisation • Agnieszka Pochyla
	The New Masculinity and its Ramifications for Policymaking in the Public and Private Sectors • Jon Ross
	The Influence of Gender in the Family Law System in Ireland • Anne Egan
	Made Men and Constructed Masculinities: Viewing the Father-Son Relationship in The Sopranos • Katarina Gregersdotter and Nicklas Hållén
	Performative Masculinity: A New Theory on Masculinity • Susan L. Pitt and Christopher A. Fox
Part 2: Representing Masculinity and Femininity
	Human/Non-Human: Gender Dynamics and the Female/Animal Condition in Medieval Culture • María Beatriz Hernandez Perez
	Their Proper Spheres: Engendering Difference in English Essay Periodicals of the Eighteenth Century • Caroline Lafitte
	Tracing Identities. Body Modifications as Inscriptions of Gender • Ambrogia Cereda
	‘Doing a Lynndie’: Artist Responses to Representation of Gender in Abu Ghraib Torture Photographs • Uros Cvoro
Part 3: Blurring the Boundaries of Genders
	Introducing Gender Equality in the Early Childhood Classroom • Denise M. Maynard
	Barbie: Is She a Postfeminine Icon Now? • Dikmen Yakalı-Çamoğlu
	Between Inverting and Perverting Gender Affiliation? Doing Research on Men in Contrasting Occupational Settings • Isabelle V. Zinn
	A Feminist/Femininity Perspective on Esther Tusquets’ Self-Representation in Confesiones de una Vieja Dama Indigna • Nicole Dobianer
Part 4: Femininity/Masculinity: De-Normalising a Continuum
	The United States of Tara: Gender Trouble in Popular Culture • Sarah Lécossais
	Who’s Afraid of Grace Marks? A Perspective of Feminist Disability Studies on Female Insanity in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace • Barbara Braid
	Non-Phallic Masculinity as Homophobia in Fight Club • Tamas Nagypal
	Renaming the Self, Recreating the Past in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana • Sonia Gertzou
Conclusions • Ambrogia Cereda and Jon Ross