Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World

1. Introduction
Àngels Carabí, Josep M. Armengol

Part I. Alternative Masculinities: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

2. Reconstructing Masculinity or Ending Manhood? The Potential and Limitations of Transforming Masculine Subjectivities for Gender Equality
Bob Pease

3. Men’s Antiviolence Activism and the Construction of Gender-Equitable Masculinities
Michael Flood

4. Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach
Matthew Gutmann

5. Aging Beyond Masculinities, or, the Penis as Failed Synecdoche
David Leverenz

Part II. Alternative Models of Manhood: Representations in American Literature and Culture

6. On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, Revisited
David Leverenz

7. Authoritarian, Missing, or Nurturing? Fathers in American Drama
Barbara Ozieblo

8. Fathers Who Care: Alternative Father Figures in Annie E. Proulx’s The Shipping News and Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections
Teresa Requena-Pelegrí

9. Alternative Masculinities in Richard Ford’s Fiction and/versus Susanne Bier’s In a Better World
Josep M. Armengol

10. Facing Xenocidal Guilt: Atypical Masculinity in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Saga
Sara Martín

11. Progressive Masculinities: Envisioning Alternative Models for Black Manhood in Toni Morrison’s Novels
Mar Gallego

12. Meeting Halfway: Contradictions, Transformation, and Alternative Masculinities in Arturo Islas’s La Mollie and the King of Tears
Aishih Wehbe-Herrera

13. Reconfiguring the Male: Masculinities beyond Capitalism in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park
Mercè Cuenca

14. Transitory Masculinities in Post-9/11 Arab American Literature Written by Women
Marta Bosch-Vilarrubias

15. Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World
V. J. Seidler

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Studies