Language And Masculinities

Author : Tommaso M. Milani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317638926

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Language and Masculinities by Tommaso M. Milani Pdf

This volume showcases cutting-edge research in the linguistic and discursive study of masculinities, comprising the first significant edited collection on language and masculinities since Johnson and Meinhof’s 1997 volume. Overall, the chapters are linked together by a critical analytical perspective that seeks to understand the relationships between discourse, masculinities, and power. Whereas some of the chapters offer detailed, linguistically informed critiques of the ways in which old and new expressions of masculinities are complicit in the reproduction of men’s hegemonic positions of power, others provide a more complex picture, one in which collusion and subversion go hand in hand. Contributions argue for the need for research on language and masculinities to expand its remit so as to engage with "gay masculinities," and unsettle gendered categories in order to consider the ways in which women, transgender, and intersex individuals also perform a variety of masculinities. Finally, unlike Johnson and Meinhof’s 1997 collection, this volume not only offers a wider—and perhaps "queerer" perspective—on the study of language and masculinities, but also covers a broader geographical and socio-cultural spectrum, including work on Brazil, Israel, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa.

Author : Sally Johnson,Ulrike Hanna Meinhof
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-12-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0631197680

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Language and Masculinity by Sally Johnson,Ulrike Hanna Meinhof Pdf

Feminist linguistics has come of age. Yet, in more than two decades of research, male speaking patterns have largely been taken for granted. This is the first extensive account of men's language - of male ways of speaking and of language in the construction of masculinity.

Author : Jennifer Coates
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780470702604

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Men Talk by Jennifer Coates Pdf

Men Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Draws on rich conversational material to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium. Collects data from a wide range of conversations, including garage mechanics on a break, carpenters at the pub after work, and university academics chatting after hours. Focuses on stories, which occur within all-male conversations. Makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the intersection of language and masculinity.

Author : Paul Baker,Giuseppe Balirano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781349953271

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Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture by Paul Baker,Giuseppe Balirano Pdf

How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting, advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex socialisation and immigration contexts including the role of EU institutions in ascertaining asylum seekers’ sexual orientation, and the European laws on gender policy. The book employs numerous analytical approaches including critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodal analysis, literary criticism and anthropological and social research. The authors show how such texts can disrupt, question or complicate traditional notions of what it means to be a man, queering the idea that men possess fixed identities or desires, instead arguing that masculinity is constantly changing and negotiated through the cultural and political overlapping contexts in which it is regularly produced. These nuanced analyses will bring fresh insights for students and scholars of gender, masculinity and queer studies, linguistics, anthropology and semiotics.

Author : Robert Lawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190081041

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Language and Mediated Masculinities by Robert Lawson Pdf

From television shows to the manosphere, and from alt-right communities to fatherhood forums, debates about masculinity have come to dominate the media landscape. What does it mean to be a man in contemporary society? How is masculinity constituted in different media spaces? This growing cultural tension around masculinities has been discussed and analyzed both for general audiences and in burgeoning academic scholarship. What has been typically overlooked, however, is the role that language plays in these mediated performances of masculinity. In Language and Mediated Masculinities, Robert Lawson draws on data from newspapers, social media sites, television programs, and online forums to explore language and masculinities across a range of media contexts. The book offers a critical evaluation of the intersection between language, masculinities, and identities in contemporary society and addresses three key questions: How are masculinities constructed, in both public and private spheres, through linguistic and discursive strategies? How does language about masculinity and men affect (and recreate) gender ideologies in different social, political, and historical contexts? What might the language of men tell us about the state of contemporary gender relations in the twenty-first century? Lawson furthers our understanding of how language is implicated in (re)creating gender ideologies and how it shapes contemporary gender relations. Against a cultural backdrop of rising neoliberalism, ethnic nationalism, online radicalization, networked misogyny, and fractious gender relations, this book is an important contribution to charting how language is used to monitor, evaluate, and police masculinities in online and offline spaces.

Author : R. Appleby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137331809

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Men and Masculinities in Global English Language Teaching by R. Appleby Pdf

This book draws on a range of sources, including tales of castaways, fictional narratives, and interviews with teachers in conversation schools and universities in Japan, to explore many current concerns around teacher identity, gender, and intercultural sexuality in global English language teaching.

Author : Eric Louis Russell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030704704

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Alpha Masculinity by Eric Louis Russell Pdf

This book examines the linguistic and discursive mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha Male. Providing an in-depth dissection of corpora from an online socio-commercial community, a pop-psychology guru, and fictional gay erotica, it unravels the ways language, gender, and hegemony play out in this ideological figure of neopositive, essentialist masculinity. Through a detailed, multi-level analysis, Russell shows how the Alpha figure combines elements of dominance, normativity, and androcentrism and how these forces intersect with neoliberal and pseudoscientific discourses to establish a uniquely hybridized male hegemony, one that is familiar to most, but whose internal mechanisms remain largely unquestioned and unexamined. This book will be of interest to academic scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, cultural studies, and gender and sexualities studies.

Author : R. W. Connell,Raewyn Connell
Publisher : Polity
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745634265

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Masculinities by R. W. Connell,Raewyn Connell Pdf

This is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before. In a substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book's initial publication. He explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of mascunlinity research. Looking to the future, his new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research for understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell's account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell's classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

Author : R. Appleby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781137331809

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Men and Masculinities in Global English Language Teaching by R. Appleby Pdf

This book draws on a range of sources, including tales of castaways, fictional narratives, and interviews with teachers in conversation schools and universities in Japan, to explore many current concerns around teacher identity, gender, and intercultural sexuality in global English language teaching.

Author : Robert Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : 0190081082

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Language and Mediated Masculinities by Robert Lawson Pdf

Author : Dr Michele Cohen,Michele Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134842209

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Fashioning Masculinity by Dr Michele Cohen,Michele Cohen Pdf

The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same time, the English constructed their cultural relations with the French as relations of seduction and desire. She argues that this produced anxiety on the part of the English over the effect of French practices on English masculinity and the virtue of English women. By the end of the century, representing the French as an effeminate other was integral to the forging of English, masculine national identity. Michele Cohen examines the derogation of women and the French which accompanied the emergent 'masculine' English identity. While taciturnity became emblematic of the English gentleman's depth of mind and masculinity, sprightly conversation was seen as representing the shallow and inferior intellect of English women and the French of both sexes. Michele Cohen also demonstrates how visible evidence of girls' verbal and language learning skills served only to construe the female mind as inferior. She argues that this perception still has currency today.

Author : Todd W. Reeser
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781444358537

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Masculinities in Theory by Todd W. Reeser Pdf

Masculinities in Theory is a clear, concise, and comprehensive introduction to the field of masculinity studies from a humanities perspective. Serves as a much-needed introduction to the field for students and scholars of cultural studies, literature, art, film, communication, history, and gender studies Includes discussions of gay/queer, feminist, and gender studies in relation to masculinity Covers the key theoretical approaches to the study of masculinity, and introduces new models Explores the question "What is masculinity and how does it work?" Looks at language, discourse, signification, power, cross-dressing, female, queer and transsexual masculinity, race and masculinity, nation and masculinity, interracial masculinities, and masculinities in history

Author : B. Knights
Publisher : Springer
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230592629

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Masculinities in Text and Teaching by B. Knights Pdf

In a climate of anxiety about boys and reading, this book addresses the gendering of English Studies, drawing on recent research on masculinity. In drawing together the study of text and narrative with insight into the experience of the classroom, this book will be of value to both teachers and students of English Studies.

Author : Wayne Martino,Christopher John Greig
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781551304113

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Canadian Men and Masculinities by Wayne Martino,Christopher John Greig Pdf

Canadian Men and Masculinities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a provocative new volume that examines men and masculinity across Canadian history and culture and sets it against the broader context of neoliberal globalization. This edited collection adopts a multi-perspective social inquiry and interdisciplinary approach and takes into careful consideration the intersections of the social and historical construction of gender with race, social class, sexuality, bodily abilities, and other social justice factors. The chief aim of this book is to examine, from historical and contemporary perspectives, the production and performance of men, boys, and embodied masculinity within the Canadian context. Within this framework, Canadian Men and Masculinities explores a range of issues including modern fatherhood, black male athleticism, indigenous masculinities, wrestling, and body building. This volume will be a valuable resource for general readers and professionals in sociology, history, education, and social and gender studies.

Author : Todd W. Reeser,Lewis Carl Seifert
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874130247

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Entre Hommes by Todd W. Reeser,Lewis Carl Seifert Pdf

Despite its debt to French thought for theoretical constructs, masculinity studies have been dominated by work on English-language texts and contexts. Entre Hommes lays the foundation for French and Francophone masculinity studies in both a cultural and theoretical sense.This ground-breaking volume considers what is meant by 'French' or 'Francophone' masculinities per se and how these identities have or have not changed over time, with essays spanning periods from the Middle Ages to the present. An introduction situates the study of masculinity within the work of recent French thinkers, and essays examine both key writers and recurring cultural images.