Alpha masculinity : hegemony in language and discourse / Eric Louis Russell.
2021
P120.S48
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Title
Alpha masculinity : hegemony in language and discourse / Eric Louis Russell.
ISBN
9783030704704 (electronic bk.)
303070470X (electronic bk.)
3030704696
9783030704698
303070470X (electronic bk.)
3030704696
9783030704698
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
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1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
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10.1007/978-3-030-70470-4 doi
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P120.S48
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.440811
Summary
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.
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Palgrave studies in language, gender and sexuality.
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ALPHA MASCULINITY.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Stumbling into Alpha
Chapter 2: Masculinities, Language, and the Alpha Male
Chapter 3: The Evidentiary Base of Alpha Male Discourse
Chapter 4: Enlanguaging Alpha: Making Reality by Making Language
Chapter 5: Representing Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony
Chapter 6: Constructing Alpha: Structures of Hegemony
Chapter 7: Discourses of Alpha: Strategies and the Hegemonic Order
Chapter 8: Men, Militarism, and Disruption.
Chapter 2: Masculinities, Language, and the Alpha Male
Chapter 3: The Evidentiary Base of Alpha Male Discourse
Chapter 4: Enlanguaging Alpha: Making Reality by Making Language
Chapter 5: Representing Alpha: The Forms of Male Hegemony
Chapter 6: Constructing Alpha: Structures of Hegemony
Chapter 7: Discourses of Alpha: Strategies and the Hegemonic Order
Chapter 8: Men, Militarism, and Disruption.