@article{1435896,
      recid = {1435896},
      author = {Russell, Eric Louis,},
      title = {Alpha masculinity : hegemony in language and discourse /},
      pages = {1 online resource :},
      abstract = {This book examines the linguistic and discursive  mechanisms that realize the mythological American Alpha  Male. Providing an in-depth dissection of corpora from an  online socio-commercial community, a pop-psychology guru,  and fictional gay erotica, it unravels the ways language,  gender, and hegemony play out in this ideological figure of  neopositive, essentialist masculinity. Through a detailed,  multi-level analysis, Russell shows how the Alpha figure  combines elements of dominance, normativity, and  androcentrism and how these forces intersect with  neoliberal and pseudoscientific discourses to establish a  uniquely hybridized male hegemony, one that is familiar to  most, but whose internal mechanisms remain largely  unquestioned and unexamined. This book will be of interest  to academic scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse  analysis, cultural studies, and gender and sexualities  studies. Eric Louis Russell is a Professor in the  Department of French & Italian and affiliated with the  Department of Linguistics and the Program in Gender,  Sexuality and Womens Studies at the University of  California, Davis. His research looks at the linguistic  foundations and discursive practices of masculinities,  sexualities, and sociocultural animus.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1435896},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70470-4},
}