02139nam a2200205   4500020001800000020001800018041000900036082001900045100002600064245015000090260003000240300001400270440004100284504005100325520146200376546001301838650001501851650004201866700002501908  a9781032088594  a9780367149314  aeng-  a155.332bMUN-G  aMundy, Roberteauthor  aGender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men's Identity in the New Millennium :bLiteracies of Masculinity /cRobert Mundy and Harry Denny  aOxon :bRoutledge,c2020.  aix, 153p.  aInterdisciplinary Research in Gender  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  aThis book considers mass media and contemporary cultural trends to examine masculinity at a point of unprecedented change. While sexual and gender politics have always been fraught, the long unexamined privilege associated with masculinity is now subject to intense scrutiny marked by a host of complex factors.



As past markers of masculine norms have been challenged on cultural, social, and economic fronts, men occupy public space ever aware that how they interact with others is questioned and questionable. What does manhood mean? Who is included in its dominant formations? What performances signify membership in the club? How are men reading this contemporary moment and to what extent does cultural literacy inform, maintain, or challenge normative male identities and subsequent performances? This work examines such questions through language and symbolic meaning, and challenges its readers to critically examine what men know and how they understand and embody gender and sexuality in a post-millennial society.



Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men’s Identity in the New Millennium: Literacies of Masculinity crosses academic disciplines and will be highly relevant in composition/rhetoric, gender studies, masculinity studies, and cross-curricular courses that take up popular/contemporary culture as well as gender, sexuality, race, and class. It has been designed with both undergraduate and graduate students in mind.  aEnglish.  aPsychology  aGender DiscriminationxGender studies  aDenny, Harryeauthor