Robinson Marked Men

White Masculinity in Crisis
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-50036-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Sally

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Visibility, Crisis, and the Wounded White Male Body
Notes to Intorduction
One: Marked Men, Embodying America: John Updike and the Reconstruction of Middle American Masculinity
I. The "Discovery" of Middle America and the Marking of White Masculinity
II. Rabbit Redux: Black Power, the Counterculture, and the Decentering of White Masculinity
III. Rabbit is Rich: Feminism, the Third World, and the Screwing of White Masculinity
Coda: The Death of White Masculinity?
Notes to Chapter One
Two: Pale Males, Dead Poets and the Crisis in White Masculinity: Scenes from the Culture Wars
I. Spectacles of (Dis)Embodiment
II. American Minds and American Bodies: Reproducing Elitism
III. Dead Poets and the Pathos of Wounded White Masculinity
Notes to Chapter Two
Three: Traumas of Embodiment: White Male Authorship in Crisis
I. The "Myth of Male Inviolability": Somatic Disintegration in Philip Roth's My Life as a Man
II. Rapists, Feminists and The World According to Garp: Authentic and Inauthentic Trauma
III: "Exercising Editorial Authority Over His Body: The Crippling of Body and Text in Stephen King's Misery
Notes to Chapter Three
Four: Masculinity as Emotional Constipation: Men's Liberation and the Wounds of Patriarchal Power
I. The Hazards of Being Male
II. The Wisdom of the Penis
III. The Embarrassments of Emotional Incontinence
Notes to Chapter Four
Five: Expression, Repression, and Male Hysteria: Marked Men and the Wounds of Patriarchal Power
I. Men's Liberation Redux: Sexuality, Evolution, and the Embodied Struggle Between Blockage and Release
II. Damned if They Do, Damned if They Don't: Deliverance and the Hysterical Male Body
III. Feminism and Masochism: The Prince of Tides and the Pleasure of Repression
Notes to Chapter Five
Works 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.