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Ecomasculinities Ruben Cenamor

Ecomasculinities By Ruben Cenamor

Ecomasculinities by Ruben Cenamor


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This book explores models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema and intersections between ecomasculinities and other counter-hegemonic practices of manhood.

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Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction by Ruben Cenamor

While there exist numerous studies on ecocriticism and ecofeminism, much less has been written about ecomasculinities. This volume contributes to filling this gap by examining models of fictional ecomasculinity in and through contemporary U.S. literature and cinema. Our study examines ecomasculinities as practices of masculinity which are deeply conservationist and can embrace non-masculine traits. In this line of thought, a main goal of the volume is to interrogate the potential of ecomasculinities to elicit in men a desire to become engage in other practices of masculinity that are counter-hegemonic and have as main goal to achieve equality on different strata of society. Bridging the gap between the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the book interrogates intersections between ecomasculinities and masculinities beyond capitalism, ecomasculinities and aging, and ecomasculinities and queerness, among others.

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If American masculinity has been historically grounded in taming nature, and environmentalism synonymous with feminized regulation, then how can men articulate a relationship with nature? We hardly need an eco-masculinist hero-Eco-Man to the Rescue!-and these careful readings of recent American fiction show men's fitful efforts to define a relationship as cohabitors on an increasingly fragile planet. Ecomascuinities, carefully constructed, are a necessary part of our survival.

-- Michael Kimmel, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University
Ecomasculinities addresses a significant gap in both the masculinities literature and eco-criticism. Informed by ecofeminist critiques of men's exploitation of nature and the links between dominant forms of masculinity and ecological destruction, the editors and contributors draw upon fictional representations of diverse masculinities to envisage new non-exploitative relations between men and nature. In doing so, they provide inspiration for men in the real world to transform dominant masculinities and to foster a feminist-informed ethic of care for the environment and all living beings. -- Bob Pease, Honorary Professor, School of Humanities and Social Science, Deakin University

To critically interrogate the historically 'unmarked category' of ecomasculinities is to strive for better understandings of the Western imagination and its ecological malaise. This rich volume highlights the importance of the literary in the urgent endeavour of reformulating relationships between men and the more-than-human. It will inform timely debates in ecocriticism, gender studies and cultural studies.

-- Richard Twine, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, Co-Director of Centre for Human-Animal Studies (CfHAS), Edge Hill University

About Ruben Cenamor

Stefan Brandt is professor at the University of Graz.



Ruben Cenamor is PhD candidate and research fellow at the University of Barcelona.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction

Stefan L. Brandt & Ruben Cenamor



Part I: The Birth of Literary Ecomasculinities



1. The Wild Ones: Ecomasculinities in the American Literary Imagination

Stefan L. Brandt



2. Men in Nature: a critical analysis of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement

Paul M. Pule and Martin Hultman



3. Eco-men from the Outer Space? Mars and Utopian Masculinities in Fin de Siecle Literature

Alessandra Calanchi



Part II: Ecomasculinities in American Literature from 1950s to 1990s



4. A New Man Emerges: Masculinities Beyond Capitalism and the Eco-Man in 1950s' America

Ruben Cenamor



5. Gender Blending and Psychic Phenomena: Forming Ecomasculinities in Gravity's Rainbow

Victoria Addis



6. Cormac McCarthy's Eco-men: the loss of the natural world in the twentieth century American landscape

Layla Hendow



7. Aging Men in Nature: Jane Smiley's Ecocritical Exploration of Masculinities Across the Life Course in A Thousand Acres

Teresa Requena



Part III: The Eco-Man in Contemporary Cinema, TV and Media



8. The Film Star as Eco-warrior: Harrison Ford Saves the Planet (and this Time It is for Real)

Virginia Luzon



9. True Detective: Not Flourishing yet, but Maybe Germinating.

Bill Phillips



10. Polar Bears and Electric Plugs: Green Shopping and Twenty-First Century Queer American Masculinity

Evangeline M. Heiliger



About the Contributors

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NLS9781498567565
9781498567565
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Ecomasculinities: Negotiating Male Gender Identity in U.S. Fiction by Ruben Cenamor
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Lexington Books
2021-03-02
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