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Book Synopsis1. Introduction: Border Masculinities and Borderality.- 2. Working-Class Masculinities in Postsocialist Chinese Television: Mediating (Im)Potency and Reproducing Transnational and Localised Inequalities - How Wee Ng, PhD, Lecturer in Chinese Studies and a member of the Contemporary China Centre at the University of Westminster, UK.- 3. Crossing Borders in Two Francophone Texts: Masculinities in Peril - Ashwiny Kistnareddy, PhD, Director of Studies and Bye-Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK.- 4. On the Road to Y Wladfa: Mobility and Masculinities in Separado!, Patagonia and American Interior - Brian Baker.- 5. Liminal Bodies: Rethinking the Borders of Masculinity in J.M. Coetzees Slow Man - Svetlana Stefanova Radoulska, PhD, Professor of English at the International University of La Rioja, Spain.- 6. Masculinities in Perpetual Movement: Values, Borders, and Contradictions in Paul Auster's New York Trilogy - Chris Harris.- 7. Gendered Borders/Bordered Genders in Maryse Condé's Les Derniers rois mages - Laura McGinnis, PhD, Learning Development Tutor at Queen's University Belfast.- 8. Modern Caciques in Yorkshire and London: Fiona Mozley's Esmet and Hot Stew - Amit Thakkar .- 9. Men and Glasses: Dances of Identity in Uncommon Spaces - Saul Pandelakis, PhD, illustrator, design researcher, teacher and science-fiction author based at the University of Toulouse, Jean Jaurès, France.- 10. Feminicidal Masculinities: Cultural Contestations of Gender Violence in Ciudad Juárez - Joey Whitfield, PhD, Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Cardiff University.- 11. Reconfiguring Masculinities: Generic Hybridisation, Postfeminist Fatherhood and Queer Readings in Les Misérables - Eleonora Sammartino, PhD, Visiting Lecturer in Film and Media Studies at the University of Greenwich and Part-Time Lecturer in Film at Imperial College London.
