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Performing Masculinity - 9780230577985

Un libro in lingua di Emig Rainer (EDT) Rowland Antony (EDT) edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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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 Japanese-American masculinities? Do contemporary computer games have a gender? These and other questions are addressed in this book 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 masculinity, its precursors, its manifestations across different genres and different media, as well as its continuing challenges and impasses

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