{"product_id":"gender-sexuality-and-the-cultural-politics-of-mens-identity-literacies-of-masculinity-paperback","title":"Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men's Identity: Literacies of Masculinity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Mundy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHarry Denny\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book considers mass media and contemporary cultural trends to examine masculinity at a point of unprecedented change. While sexual and gender politics have always been fraught, the long unexamined privilege associated with masculinity is now subject to intense scrutiny marked by a host of complex factors\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs past markers of masculine norms have been challenged on cultural, social, and economic fronts, men occupy public space ever aware that how they interact with others is questioned and questionable. What does manhood mean? Who is included in its dominant formations? What performances signify membership in the club? How are men reading this contemporary moment and to what extent does cultural literacy inform, maintain, or challenge normative male identities and subsequent performances? This work examines such questions through language and symbolic meaning, and challenges its readers to critically examine what men know and how they\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eunderstand and embody gender and sexuality in a post-millennial society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Politics of Men's Identity in the New Millennium: Literacies of Masculinity \u003c\/i\u003ecrosses academic disciplines and will be highly relevant in composition\/rhetoric, gender studies, masculinity studies, and cross-curricular courses that take up popular\/contemporary culture as well as gender, sexuality, race, and class. It has been designed with both undergraduate and graduate students in mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Mundy\u003c\/strong\u003e is assistant professor of English and writing program director at Pace University in Pleasantville, NY. His research focuses on composition theory and pedagogy, masculinity studies, writing center theory and practice, and cultural studies. His essays have appeared in the collection \u003ci\u003eClass in the Composition Classroom\u003c\/i\u003e and the journal \u003ci\u003eThe Peer Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Most recently, he was a contributor to and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eOut in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHarry Denny\u003c\/strong\u003e is associate professor of English and director of the Writing Lab at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. His scholarship focuses on composition and writing center studies, cultural studies, and research methods. He has published on identity politics in writing centers; the politics of assessment in writing programs; and media, governmental, legal, and activist responses to HIV and civil rights. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eFacing the Center: Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-one Tutoring\u003c\/i\u003e and a contributor to and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eOut in the Center: Public Controversies and Private Struggles\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47479294132402,"sku":"9781032088594","price":100.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/de3f33f6eb49c228aabb7d272f279c01.webp?v=1779235655","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/gender-sexuality-and-the-cultural-politics-of-mens-identity-literacies-of-masculinity-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}