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Balirano, G. / Baker, P. (eds) 2018. Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture

Balirano, G. / Baker, P. (eds) 2018. Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan., 2018

‘By exploring the entire gamut of the representation of masculinity in both old and new media and across a wide range of disciplines, Baker and Balirano get readers really thinking about what it means to be a man in today’s liquid society. Guaranteed to raise awareness about the diverse ways of being and performing masculinity, the book provides a novel contribution to an exciting new field opening up new avenues for other researchers.’ —Delia Chiaro, Professor of English Linguistics and Translation, University of Bologna, Italy, and President of the International Society of Humor Studies ‘Exploring the interface of queer studies with the fields of linguistics, anthropology, semiotics, critical discourse analysis, literary and film studies, the articles in this collection draw a multifaceted picture of the discursive construction and representation of queer masculinities in a range of text genres and contexts. They engage in fascinating analyses of various aspects of queer masculinities, including issues such as consumer culture, representation in TV series, films, literature and art, intersectionality with trans and racial identities, homophobic discourse and subordination through hegemonic masculinity.’ —Heiko Motschenbacher, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen

Afective Masculinity in Circulation

POSTHUMANISM AND THE MAN QUESTION Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities Edited by Ulf Mellström and Bob Pease , 2023

Academic work on afect and masculinity has considered how normative or hegemonic masculinity can be transformed, queered, or momentarily disabled in afective moments. These kinds of progressive gender transformations, however, tend to be limited in time and in efect. This chapter discusses how masculinity functions representationally within circuits of afect for an open-ended duration. Yann Gonzalez's short flm Les Îles (Islands) (2017a) serves as a revelatory case study depicting unending afective circuits in which monstrous masculinity functions as a catalyst for-and an element of-a transmission of afect that produces new forms of gender subjectivity. Still, the flm does not simply depict masculinity as optimistic and progressive, as it also recalls hegemonic elements of masculinity represented by violence. With this bipartite construct, then, masculinity in short embodies gender-becoming with a caveat.

CAA Tender Masculinities -- for Paper Publication.docx

What I desire to explore are queer, cis male artists who use photography to present other masculinities other identities—specifically tender masculinites as oposed to toxic masculinity. Thus, I discuss the work of Matt Lambert, Abel Azcona, Stiofan O'Ceallaigh, and Shikeith in order to unpack a theory of performed, alternative masculinities— what I call, tender masculinities—which counters the rise of Trumpism, toxic masculinity, and a more global return to “traditional” gender roles. I will be looking at how alternative sexual orientations, genders, and spaces and see how race plays out differently and similarly when tender masculinities are performed. This is important to explore and theorize in order to show how queer artists are activists who desire to highlight radical differences and other ways of being “masculine” – which is becoming increasingly important search out, nurture, and support in these uncertain times for other bodies—and also lives.

Balirano, G. / Baker, P. 2018. Introduction - Queer Masculinities: By Way of Introduction

Balirano, G. / Baker, P. 2018. “Introduction – Queer Masculinities: By Way of Introduction”. In Balirano, G. / Baker, P. (eds), Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture, pp. 1-17. London: Palgrave Macmillan. , 2018

This collection brings together diverse experiences, views, and studies stemming from original interdisciplinary research on different linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in new and old media. It is a timely contribution towards ongoing research on changing representations of men and masculinities in contemporary academic studies. Each of the self-contained chapters in the volume is bound into a specific frame of reference enhancing a series of examinations on the ways that masculinities intersect with queer identities and practices. The diverse authors who contributed to the book have analysed the representation of “queer” social actors from the perspective of gender studies, with the benefit of approaches and insights from masculinity and queer studies, linguistics, anthropology, and semiotics. Queering masculinities aims to promote a range of integrated approaches, particularly those relating to emerging ways of signifying contemporary masculinities and relating constraints, stereotypes, and prejudices within English-speaking contexts by addressing issues concerning gender in linguistic, literary, social, and cultural contexts. Hence, the book entails several analytical approaches spanning from critical discourse analysis and multimodal analysis to literary criticism and anthropological and social research.