Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World

Chapter 1 Introduction

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

Chapter 3 Men’s Antiviolence Activism and the Construction of Gender-Equitable Masculinities

Chapter 4 Alternative Cultures of Masculinity: An Anthropological Approach

Chapter 5 Aging Beyond Masculinities, or, the Penis as Failed Synecdoche

Chapter 6 On Learning Not to Love the Oedipus Complex, Revisited

Chapter 7 Authoritarian, Missing, or Nurturing? Fathers in American Drama

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

Chapter 9 Alternative Masculinities in Richard Ford’s Fiction and/versus Susanne Bier’s In a Better World

Chapter 10 Facing Xenocidal Guilt: Atypical Masculinity in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Saga

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

Chapter 12 Meeting Halfway: Contradictions, Transformation, and Alternative Masculinities in Arturo Islas’s La Mollie and the King of Tears

Chapter 13 Reconfiguring the Male: Masculinities beyond Capitalism in Paul Auster’s Sunset Park

Chapter 14 Transitory Masculinities in Post-9/11 Arab American Literature Written by Women

Chapter 15 Moving Ahead: Alternative Masculinities for a Changing World