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Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture 1st Edition

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Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture 1st Edition Paul Baker Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano (eds.)

ISBN(s): 9781349953264, 9781349953271, 1349953261, 134995327X

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 3.95 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

SKU: EB-6845760 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Social Sciences, Society Tags: Paul Baker, Queering Masculinities

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Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781349953264,9781349953271,1349953261,134995327X

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ISBN 10:134995327X
ISBN 13:9781349953271
Author: Paul Baker,Giuseppe Balirano

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Is the Rectum a Gold Mine? Queer Theory, Consumer Masculinities, and Capital Pleasures

3. Masculinity and Gay-Friendly Advertising: A Comparative Analysis Between the Italian and US Market

4. Come and Get Your Love: Starsky & Hutch, Disidentification, and US Masculinities in the 1970s

5. The Televisual Representation of Ageing Gay Males: The Case of Vicious

6. The Queer Peer: Masculinity and Brotherhood in Cain and Abel Literature and Imagination

7. An Effortless Voice: Queer Vocality and Transgender Identity in Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy

8. Painting Social Change on a Body Canvas: Trans Bodies and Their Social Impact

9. Neapolitan Social-Transgenderism: The Discourse of Valentina OK

10. Undoing Black Masculinity: Isaac Julien’s Alternative Grammar of Visual Representation

11. ‘You Cry Gay, You’re In’: The Case of Asylum Seekers in the UK