Marked Men - White Masculinity in Crisis

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-11293-2
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 376 g

White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy and such films as Deliverance, Misery, and Dead Poets Society as well as other writings, including The Closing of the American Mind Sally Robinson argues that white men are tempted by the possibilities of pain and the surprisingly pleasurable tensions that come from living in crisis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Visibility, Crisis, and the Wounded White Male BodyNotes to IntorductionOne: Marked Men, Embodying America: John Updike and the Reconstruction of Middle American MasculinityI. The "Discovery" of Middle America and the Marking of White MasculinityII. Rabbit Redux: Black Power, the Counterculture, and the Decentering of White MasculinityIII. Rabbit is Rich: Feminism, the Third World, and the Screwing of White MasculinityCoda: The Death of White Masculinity?Notes to Chapter OneTwo: Pale Males, Dead Poets and the Crisis in White Masculinity: Scenes from the Culture WarsI. Spectacles of (Dis)EmbodimentII. American Minds and American Bodies: Reproducing ElitismIII. Dead Poets and the Pathos of Wounded White MasculinityNotes to Chapter TwoThree: Traumas of Embodiment: White Male Authorship in CrisisI. The "Myth of Male Inviolability": Somatic Disintegration in Philip Roth's My Life as a ManII. Rapists, Feminists and The World According to Garp: Authentic and Inauthentic TraumaIII: "Exercising Editorial Authority Over His Body: The Crippling of Body and Text in Stephen King's MiseryNotes to Chapter ThreeFour: Masculinity as Emotional Constipation: Men's Liberation and the Wounds of Patriarchal PowerI. The Hazards of Being MaleII. The Wisdom of the PenisIII. The Embarrassments of Emotional IncontinenceNotes to Chapter FourFive: Expression, Repression, and Male Hysteria: Marked Men and the Wounds of Patriarchal PowerI. Men's Liberation Redux: Sexuality, Evolution, and the Embodied Struggle Between Blockage and ReleaseII. Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don't: Deliverance and the Hysterical Male BodyIII. Feminism and Masochism: The Prince of Tides and the Pleasure of RepressionNotes to Chapter FiveWorks Cited

Über Autor(innen)

Sally Robinson is associate professor of English at Texas A&M University and the author of Engendering the Subject: Gender and Self-Representation in Contemporary Women's Fiction.