Queering masculinities in language and culture

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, onli...

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Weitere Verfasser: Baker, Paul (HerausgeberIn), Balirano, Giuseppe (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: London, United Kingdom Palgrave Macmillan 2018
Schriftenreihe:Palgrave studies in language, gender and sexuality
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Zusammenfassung: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 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
Beschreibung:xiii, 291 Seiten
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ISBN:1349953261
1-349-95326-1
9781349953264
978-1-349-95326-4