Books in the Masculinity Studies series

The Male Body as Advertisement: Masculinities in Hispanic Media offers a multidisciplinary view of the body of men, of its practices and attributes, of its features, and, most importantly, of its use as a persuasive and expressive resource.

Men on the Screen articulates various different types of masculinities, arguing that Spanish cinema is a reflection of the great changes experienced by Spanish society during these years.

Hispanic (LGT) Masculinities in Transition investigates the cultural representations/intersections of masculinity and sexual minorities (lesbians, gays, and transgenders) in Spain between the passing of the Law of Social Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) and the reform of the Penal Code in 1995.

A study of prominent issues and themes such as education, and racism in young adult novels written for African American boys by African American men and women writers. It illustrates how men and women writers of young adult literature for African American boys reveal difficulties of growing up young, Black, and male in modern-day American society.

Suitable for courses on queer, gender, and masculinity studies as well as Hispanic cultures and literatures, this book focuses on revisiting archetypes of masculinity from medieval Iberia to the present by placing them in the context of the divergent counter-images that have always existed below the radar.

Embodying Masculinities sketches the first history of the male body in modern U.S. culture and literature. The book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender and masculinity studies as well as those in American studies.

Post-9/11 Representations of Arab Men by Arab American Women Writers: Affirmation and Resistance examines the portrayals of Arab masculinities in novels published after September 11, 2001, by women of Arab descent in the United States.

This book addresses the representation of masculinities in the work of J. M. Coetzee, with a particular focus on the writer's trilogy: Boyhood (1997), Youth (2002) and Summertime (2009). Provocatively dealing with questions of autobiography, Coetzee's trilogy provides a panoramic view of a man's development through various stages of life.

The interest for this volume lies in that it is the first time that the study of man is addressed in the cinema of Almodovar from a broad, comprehensive and complementary perspective.

This study investigates anxieties over the role of white masculinity in American society after World War Two articulated in post-apocalyptic film.

This book explores the representations of disability, gender and old age in the novels of Samuel Beckett. His works go against the foundations of Western thought, which has been traditionally focused on success, clarity, learning and ability, while Beckett chose to focus on failure, confusion, decay and impotence.