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Performing Masculinity by Rainer Emig; Antony Rowland; Palgrave Connect (Online service) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Performing Masculinity about?

This interdisciplinary study analyses the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - including literature, classical ballet, sports, rock music, films and computer games - from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Were there male celebrity bodies before David Beckham? When did male dancers start playing a part -- and which one? Was Victorian masculinity all in earnest before Oscar Wilde? What kind of masculinity does cricket promote? What is 'Cock Rock'? How can we understand Chinese American masculinities? Do contemporary computer games have a gender? These and even more questions are addressed in the present study through contemporary theories of masculinity and performativity. The answers that experts from many different fields of Literary, Cultural and Media Studies provide add up to a survey of modern masculinities, its precursors, its manifestations across different genres and different media, as well as its continuing challenges and impasses

Who reads Performing Masculinity?

Author

Rainer Emig; Antony Rowland; Palgrave Connect (Online service)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Limited

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230577985

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Anthropology