Marked Men White Masculinity in Crisis

Name: Marked Men White Masculinity in Crisis
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ISBN: 9780231112932

ISBN-10: 0231112939

ISBN-13: 9780231112932

Edition: 2000

Authors: Sally Robinson

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White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States, yet stories of wounded and traumatised men dominate popular culture. This work argues that white men are tempted by the possibilities of pain and crisis.

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.87" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Sally is particularly interested in children's health promotion and her PhD explored children's perceptions of eating and body image. Her academic and professional background spans nutrition, nursing, public health, arts and health, and play therapy. She has a wide range of publications and has collaborated on local, national and European projects.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Visibility, Crisis, and the Wounded White Male Body



Marking Men, Embodying America: John Updike and the Reconstruction of Middle American Masculinity


The "Discovery" of Middle America and the Marking of White Masculinity


Rabbit Redux: Black Power, the Counterculture, and the Decentering of White Masculinity


Rabbit Is Rich: Feminism, the Third World, and the Screwing of White Masculinity


Coda: The Death of White Masculinity?



Pale Males, Dead Poets, and the Crisis in White Masculinity: Scenes from the Culture wars


Spectacles of (Dis)Embodiment


American Minds and American Bodies: Reproducing Elitism


Dead Poets and the Pathos of Wounded White Masculinity



Traumas of Embodiment: White Male Authorship in Crisis


The "Myth of Male Inviolability": Somatic Disintegration in Philip Roth's My Life as a Man


Rapists, Feminists, and The World According to Garp: Inauthentic versus Authentic Traumas


"Exercising Editorial Authority Over His Body": The Crippling of Body and Text in Stephen King's Misery



Masculinity as Emotional Constipation: Men's Liberation and the Wounds of Patriarchal Power


The Hazards of Being Male


The Wisdom of the Penis


The Embarrassments of Emotional Incontinence



Expression, Repression, and Male Hysteria: Marked men and the Wounds of a Dammed Masculinity


Men's Liberation Redux: Sexuality, Evolution, and the Embodied Struggle Between Blockage and Release


Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don't: Deliverance and the Hysterical Male Body


Feminism and Masochism: The Prince of Tides and the Pleasures of Repression


Notes


Bibliography


Index