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Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture

Part of the Palgrave Studies in Language, Gender and Sexuality Book Series

Editors: Baker, Paul; Balirano, Giuseppe

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-95327-1

ISBN: 978-1-349-95326-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 9, 2017

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Balirano, Giuseppe; Baker, Paul

Pages: 1 –17

[This chapter introduces the collection of chapters in this book, focusing on defining two central concepts, masculinity and queer, as well as examining the relationship between the two. The chapter provides a critical overview of research at the intersection of masculinity studies and queer...
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Chapter 2Is the Rectum a Gold Mine? Queer Theory, Consumer Masculinities, and Capital Pleasures

Milani, Tommaso M.

Pages: 19 –42

[This chapter investigates a potential shift in representational regimes and the consumerist exploitation of the rectum, a male body part often considered taboo. The analysis is based on a set of advertising texts that promote sex toys that are said to improve the health of the male prostate, as...
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Chapter 3Masculinity and Gay-Friendly Advertising: A Comparative Analysis Between the Italian and US Market

Federici, Eleonora; Bernardelli, Andrea

Pages: 43 –64

[In this chapter, we look at the representations of masculinity in gay-friendly printed adverts and commercials, focusing on the tensions between marketing and socio-political discourses that occur within them. We also offer a comparative perspective between gay-friendly advertising in Italy and...
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Chapter 4Come and Get Your Love: Starsky & Hutch, Disidentification, and US Masculinities in the 1970s

Bavaro, Vincenzo

Pages: 65 –85

[This chapter focuses on the TV series Starsky and HutchStarsky and Hutch (1975–1979) claiming that it opens up “windows of possibilities” for counter-hegemonic representations of masculinity. Despite what seems to be a traditional and conservative understanding of gender identity and power, the...
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Chapter 5The Televisual Representation of Ageing Gay Males: The Case of Vicious

Tommaso, Laura

Pages: 87 –109

[Current manifestations of gay ageing in TV series are forging new paths that can promisingly lead to a reformulation of queer temporalities. In the present chapter, a brief overview of selected TV series depicting mature gay characters has been provided with the aim of shedding light on an...
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Chapter 6The Queer Peer: Masculinity and Brotherhood in Cain and Abel Literature and Imagination

Di Gennaro, Paola

Pages: 111 –126

[The aim of this chapter is to outline the variations assumed in the literature and, more generally, in the collective imagination of the story of Cain in his relationship with his peer, his brother Abel. Approaching it from a queer theory perspective means studying an interesting, archetypal...
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Chapter 7An Effortless Voice: Queer Vocality and Transgender Identity in Kim Fu’s For Today I Am a Boy

Guarracino, Serena

Pages: 127 –147

[This chapter offers some reflections on the social and cultural relevance of vocal identity in the embodiment of queer subjectivities through a reading of Kim Fu’s 2014 novel For Today I Am a Boy. The coming-of-age story of Peter Huang, a young Canadian of Chinese descent who undertakes the slow...
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Chapter 8Painting Social Change on a Body Canvas: Trans Bodies and Their Social Impact

Di Martino, Emilia

Pages: 149 –173

[This chapter explores the life and artistic production of media celebrity Laverne Cox to show that––while incorporating certain aspects of masculinity (and femininity) perceived as positive––this transgender individual fails to produce other signs commonly deemed “appropriate” in terms of...
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Chapter 9Neapolitan Social-Transgenderism: The Discourse of Valentina OK

Di Nuzzo, Annalisa

Pages: 175 –194

[The chapter discusses, through the methodology of cultural anthropology, the character-person Valentina OK. Valentina was a transperson who used aesthetic surgery as transvestism and internalised the values of the femminiello culture, thus establishing continuity between old and new practices....
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Chapter 10Undoing Black Masculinity: Isaac Julien’s Alternative Grammar of Visual Representation

Amideo, Emilio

Pages: 195 –224

[Through a semiotic approach partly drawing on the work on multimodality by Kress and van Leeuwen and strongly influenced by the theoretical tradition of the Caribbean diaspora, this chapter proposes a new reading of Isaac Julien’s iconic film Looking for Langston (1989). Complemented by...

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