Gender Studies in Wales #: Representing the Male

Masculinity, Genre and Social Context in Six South Wales Novels

Gender Studies in Wales #: Representing the Male
John Perrott Jenkins
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15 Jun 2021 UK
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9781786837783
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A study of masculinity in six Welsh novels, linking the critique of structural patriarchy to that of industrial capitalism. The book undertakes a gendered analysis of the male characters in six South Wales novels written between 1936 and 2014, uncovering a critique of the form of masculine hegemony propagated by structural patriarchy and industrial capitalism. The novels depict characters confined to a limited repertoire of culturally endorsed behavioral norms that prohibit the expression and cultivation of the self. Ideologically subservient and "feminized" in the context of work, the working-class characters are ideologically dominant and "masculinized" at home. As the characters negotiate, resist, or strive to reconcile the irreconcilable demands of such gendered practices, Jenkins shows how recurring patterns of exclusion, inadequacy, and mental instability become evident in their representation.

Representing the Male: Masculinity, Genre and Social Context in Six South Wales Novels

Following a career in teaching, lecturing, and writing on English and American literature, John Perrott Jenkins is currently working on postcolonialism, border identity, and the social construction of gender in anglophone Welsh fiction. He was born in Wales and now lives in Bath, England.
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ISBN-13: 9781786837783
Published: 15 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: University of Wales Press
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 256

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