{"product_id":"masculinity-in-transition-hardback-9781517914349","title":"Masculinity in Transition (Hardback) 9781517914349","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMasculinity in Transition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eK. Allison Hammer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517914349\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 October 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e312 pages, 19 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.482 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"A major intervention into masculinities studies, \u003ci\u003eMasculinity in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly and consistently pushes the field toward a critical understanding of masculinity as a complex gender formation. K. Allison Hammer undertakes nuanced readings of a wide array of texts to offer a new understanding of masculinity and the ways in which it both serves and subverts hegemonic social, sexual, and racial hierarchies.\"-Christopher Breu, author of \u003ci\u003eHard-Boiled Masculinities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"How might we understand masculinity if we turn toward culture rather than biology? In compelling case studies, \u003ci\u003eMasculinity in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e insightfully examines normative masculinity's associations with the phallus, domination, and impenetrability. However, K. Allison Hammer also brilliantly uses these sites to uncover remakings of masculinity that center care, porosity, and unruly alliances-uplifting models for the precarious now.\"-Amber Jamilla Musser, author of \u003ci\u003eSensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLocating the roots of toxic masculinity and finding its displacement in unruly culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMasculinity in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Hammer argues, however, that these malignant forms of masculinity are not fixed and can be displaced by “unruly alliances”-texts and relationships that reject the nationalisms and gender politics of white male hegemony and perform an urgently needed reimagining of what it means to be masculine. Locating these unruly alliances in the writings, performances, and films of butch lesbians, gay men, cisgender femmes, and trans and nonbinary individuals, \u003ci\u003eMasculinity in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e works through an archive of works of performance art, trans poetics, Western films and streaming media, global creative responses to HIV\/AIDS, and working-class and “white trash” fictions about labor and unionization. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMasculinity in Transition\u003c\/i\u003e moves the study of masculinity away from an overriding preoccupation with cisnormativity, whiteness, and heteronormativity, and toward a wider and more generative range of embodiments, identifications, and ideologies. Hammer’s bold rethinking of masculinity and its potentially toxic effects lays bare the underlying fragility of normative masculinity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRetail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and\/or extended descriptions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction: Rejecting “American” Manhood \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part I: Challenging Phallic Supremacy \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. “She’s a Pistol”: Female Phallicism \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. “When I Was a Boy”: Boi\/Boyhood and the Unworking of Masculinity \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part II: Challenging Conceptions of the Nation \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. The “Not (Quite) Yet” of a New Collectivity: Feminist Masculinity and the American Western \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Virtue Is Divided: Unruly Alliances in Willa Cather and Gertrude Stein \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Part III: Challenging Masculine Impenetrability \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. “Skin of His Hand against the Skin of My Back”: HIV\/AIDS Self-Writing and Film of the 1980s and ’90s \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. “A Man Is a Worker”: Economic Penetrability, Labor Abuses, and Landlessness \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion: Toward the Future of Masculinity and Relationality \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52619258003736,"sku":"9781517914349","price":60.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/masculinity-in-transition-hardback-9781517914349","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}