The Fictions That Shape Mens Lives

Author : Christopher Kilmartin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000375471
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fictions that Shape Men's Lives written by Christopher Kilmartin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fictions that Shape Men’s Lives is structured around a number of key ‘fictions’ of masculinity, such as beliefs in biological determinism, the inevitability of men’s violence and the opposition of the sexes, and proceeds to expose them to be wholly or partially unfounded. Examining the social pressure to behave and experience the self in ways that culture prescribes for the bodies we are perceived as having, this book provides an awareness of widely-held but distorted assumptions of gender. It also seeks to put men into the position to resist masculine social pressures when conforming to it conflicts with important life goals or values and/or causes harm. Making use of an informal, storytelling style provides an accessibility to those interested in breaking down their preconceptions of gender and masculinity, as well making links to key theories and concepts. This is a lively and engaging book for undergraduates studying introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Masculinity courses.

Author : Christopher Kilmartin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000375447
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fictions that Shape Men's Lives written by Christopher Kilmartin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fictions that Shape Men’s Lives is structured around a number of key ‘fictions’ of masculinity, such as beliefs in biological determinism, the inevitability of men’s violence and the opposition of the sexes, and proceeds to expose them to be wholly or partially unfounded. Examining the social pressure to behave and experience the self in ways that culture prescribes for the bodies we are perceived as having, this book provides an awareness of widely-held but distorted assumptions of gender. It also seeks to put men into the position to resist masculine social pressures when conforming to it conflicts with important life goals or values and/or causes harm. Making use of an informal, storytelling style provides an accessibility to those interested in breaking down their preconceptions of gender and masculinity, as well making links to key theories and concepts. This is a lively and engaging book for undergraduates studying introduction to Gender, Sexuality and Masculinity courses.

Author : Christopher Kilmartin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597380249
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masculine Self written by Christopher Kilmartin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Sumner Weaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.SH/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ways of Life written by George Sumner Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Sumner WEAVER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Download or read book The Ways of Life, Shewing the Right Way and the Wrong Way, Etc written by George Sumner WEAVER and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Fay Weldon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The hearts and lives of men written by Fay Weldon and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kristina Straub
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187516
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Fictions written by Kristina Straub and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today Fanny Burney's venture into authorship would not be questionable. She was, after all, a daughter of a celebrated musician, and the Burney family was know to the circle of Samuel Johnson and Hester Thrale. Yet as Kristina Straub ably shows, the public recognition which followed the publication of her first novel placed Fanny Burney in a situation of disturbing ambiguity. Did she become famous or notorious? Was she a prodigy or a freak? In this study of Burney, Straub not only describes and analyzes the disturbing transition of a writer's self-awareness as a woman and a literary artist from private to public terms, but also reveals in Burney's works a hitherto unacknowledged complexity."

Author : Jane Meyrick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000590585
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book #MeToo for Women and Men written by Jane Meyrick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-20 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #MeToo for Women and Men provides an overview of sexual violence and an accessible guide to the #MeToo movement, presenting a timely look at the evidence from diverse fields. Its evidence-based approach builds upon public health and health psychology principles to increase the reader’s understanding of sexual bullying and aims to help inform the building of safer communities. The book identifies patterns of sexual harassment and considers how sexual bullying can be used to express power. Intended to widen readers' knowledge of the causes and impacts surrounding sexual harassment and abuse, the book encourages open discussion of these topics to enable society to move closer to combating it. Using first-person accounts alongside evidence of both individual behaviours and the ways the topic is dealt with in laws, institutions, cultures and organisations, the book ensures that voices of survivors and their experiences are emphasised throughout. A wide audience of public, professional, academics and clinicians will benefit from the book’s extensive look into the impact sexual harassment has on survivors and its insight into how connections across a range of fields help us to understand, but more importantly, prevent perpetration and victimisation. This guide is also for non-academics wanting to understand what #MeToo means, what it tells us about prevention and how to address the increasing problem of sexual harassment, violence and abuse.

Author : Claudia Tate
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019536080X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domestic Allegories of Political Desire written by Claudia Tate and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did African-American women novelists use idealized stories of bourgeois courtship and marriage to mount arguments on social reform during the last decade of the nineteenth century, during a time when resurgent racism conditioned the lives of all black Americans? Such stories now seem like apolitical fantasies to contemporary readers. This is the question at the center of Tate's examination of the novels of Pauline Hopkins, Emma Kelley, Amelia Johnson, Katherine Tillman, and Frances Harper. Domestic Allegories of Political Desire is more than a literary study; it is also a social and intellectual history--a cultural critique of a period that historian Rayford W. Logan called "the Dark Ages of recent American history." Against a rich contextual framework, extending from abolitionist protest to the Black Aesthetic, Tate argues that the idealized marriage plot in these novels does not merely depict the heroine's happiness and economic prosperity. More importantly, that plot encodes a resonant cultural narrative--a domestic allegory--about the political ambitions of an emancipated people. Once this domestic allegory of political desire is unmasked in these novels, it can be seen as a significant discourse of the post-Reconstruction era for representing African-Americans' collective dreams about freedom and for reconstructing those contested dreams into consummations of civil liberty.

Author : James W. Coleman
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813158680
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban written by James W. Coleman and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With The Tempest's Caliban, Shakespeare created an archetype in the modern era depicting black men as slaves and savages who threaten civilization. As contemporary black male fiction writers have tried to free their subjects and themselves from this legacy to tell a story of liberation, they often unconsciously retell the story, making their heroes into modern-day Calibans. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of John Edgar Wideman, Clarence Major, Charles Johnson, William Melvin Kelley, Trey Ellis, David Bradley, and Wesley Brown. He traces the Caliban legacy to early literary influences, primarily Ralph Ellison, and then deftly demonstrates its contemporary manifestations. This engaging study challenges those who argue for the liberating possibilities of the postmodern narrative, as Coleman reveals the pervasiveness and influence of Calibanic discourse. At the heart of James Coleman's study is the perceived history of the black male in Western culture and the traditional racist stereotypes indigenous to the language. Calibanic discourse, Coleman argues, so deeply and subconsciously influences the texts of black male writers that they are unable to cast off the oppression inherent in this discourse. Coleman wants to change the perception of black male writers' struggle with oppression by showing that it is their special struggle with language. Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban is the first book to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central perspective.