Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US: Between Bodies and Systems

Year 2019, Issue: 11, 129 - 134, 15.05.2019

Murat Göç

Abstract

Contemporary Masculinities in the UK and the US: Between Bodies and Systems offers promising and insightful discussions and qualitative data on a variety of topics in humanities particularly related to the Anglo-Saxon culture and literature. It stands out as a peculiar guide to understand masculinities in an age of rising authoritarianism marinated in a hypermasculine cultural and political discourse, a disillusioned search for an opportunity to come out (for men) of gender stereotypes, and a multiplicity of masculinities in public and private.
The book was edited by two prominent scholars , Stefan Horlacher from Dresden University of Technology and Kevin Floyd from Kent State University, Ohio, and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017 as a part of a series, Global Masculinities, co-edited by Michael Kimmel and Judith Kegan Gardiner. Among other books in the series, the book deserves a distinguished interest and attention with its deliberate focus on the variety of topics and perspectives and its noticeable preference for an internationality of authors.

Keywords

Masculinities, Bodies, hypermasculine